Matt Furey.

You guys have likely heard the name.

The man who started with nary a pot to piss in, and went on to become a multi-millionaire and has two home in two continents (and probably counting as we speak, hehe).

And then some.

A man that has motivated MILLIONS of peope globally.

A MAN that yours truly looks up to, admires, and always has.

And a man that was the basis for 0 Excuses Fitness in terms of a FEW of the other exercises – the main ones – and a man that I made my mind up to get better at certain exercises than he likely is. ;)

Hey, it's always about the “student” besting the teacher!

That is what I tell ALL my customers.

I don't care if it is Gautam who I once told could do pull-ups BETTER than I could if he just buckled down and did the thing! (which he DID DO).

Or if it's Charles Mitchell whose furiously working the exercises in Pushup Central (especially the fingertip versions ;)) ...

(As I told him – you can best me at them!)

He said he wasn't quite up to par as yet, but hey.

He's trying.

And I'm sure he'll get ther e(but I WILL be training too in the meantime, hehe. ;)).

But the point stands.

And as I've been comunicating with John Walker, the customer I speak so highly of, and the custommer that left me many a glowing review (with reason – and this is important – you'll see why beneath) ... a recent communique from him left me speechless.

Again in a good way!

He literally compared me to the legend.

Something I've often done privately (including with Ben Settle, another genuis and legend if there ever was one – not fitness related tho).

And something I never thought despite my books reachin thousands of people globally anyone would say.

Matt Furey, my friends, is truly a LEGEND.

Along with a few others I could name (Brooks Kubik being one!).

Anyway ... enough babble from me.

Here is the email and followeth my response too.

Dear Rahul

 

You are most welcome my friend, I just hope that I've done you justice as I don't write a lot of reviews, that's because I do not put much faith in other peoples opinions (opinions are like arseholes "everyone's got one") and I do not take anything I'm told at face value whether it's good or bad.

 

I tend to think most people are like minded and wish to make their own mind up about whether a product has true merit or whether it's just overhyped garbage.

 

With regard to your books I'm more than happy to shout from the rooftops how great they really are, whether anyone will be interested in what I have to say is "unknown" but if it helps you in any way then I'm more than happy to write as many reviews as you want.

 

I know there seems to be a lot of sceptics out there these days and if you try to give people your honest opinion they automatically assume you've had some kind incentive if the review is a positive one.

 

Your books on your training methods are unique I have never read anything like them, the closest being Combat Conditioning by Matt Furey, however, Matt's book could only be considered "basic training" compared to the "advanced methods" you proscribe in your books and although I don't own them all (yet) I know from what I do have that they are the best training books on the planet bar none, thank you for publishing the best training material in the world.

 

Warmest Regards

 

John.        

 

 

REsponse beneath - 

Hi John

Once again, thanks!! Yes those reviews did justice and then some ... and well ... enough said on that - I'm equally eager for them books to reach you so you can start cranking the workouts, and DO THEM justice too! ;)

(As I'm sure you agree, hehe).

Yes, I agree. Opinion are indeed like A-holes, but when that opinion is backed by FACT (as yours are) and has the RING of TRUTH to it (as a buddy of mine once told me) - well - then they do count!

Yes, do keep writing reviews - either on Amazon or to me personally (whichever works better for you is fine - although Amazon etc is probably the best best as "more people" would see it there) ...

And last, but not least, thank you again! To be compared to Matt Furey and as you rightly say, the workouts being more advanced than what the LEGEND (Furey) put out - well - I am left speechless for one. In a good way! But yeah, thats why I mentioned Matt in 0 Excuses Fitness - he deserves the mention and then some!

And so it goes. Thanks again my brother - you truly DO make all of this worth it!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

Well my friend, enough said on that one eh.

I'm out for now – back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – I was just telling my daughter how to do Math (something about addition – the question was a great one) – and the first thing I told her ? Handstand pushups solve all problems!

(and those of you paying attention on the other site KNOW WHAT I MEAN! ;-))

Next thing I know, she's in a handstand, hehe, and the four “sums” seem to be over and gone by the wind.

Again enough said!!!

PS #2 – Pick up Kiddie Fitness for your kids right now, my friend. It truly is a better gift than smartphone, endless inane videos, and other such “nonsense”. Get them started now. Get them started on the right PATH EARLY – I did mine at the age of 6 months on the monkey bars, and have never once looked BACK!!

PPS - It isn't often that my hands "shake" while writing, but really. Matt Furey. He is a legend! 

PPS #2 - Just remembered, you ADVANCED trainees will love the ADVANCED book on pull-ups - pick it up right here - Pull-ups - from STUD to SUPER STUD within WEEKS!

Writing this, or “about to say it” is carthratic in itself for whatever reason.

But over the past year or so and especially this year, I've been culling people off my “friend listS” and removing them PERMANENTLY in most cases for very valid reasons.

It's something I shoul dhave don eyears ago, of course 

As they say, the teacher only appears when the student is truly READY!

And in that regard, I always knew that if one replaces what one does NOT want – promptly – with what does ONE want – even if that be MENTALLY – well - I didnt fully implement it until the past couple of years, and especially now.

Remove that which you don't want from your life.

Permanently.

No excuses.

(after giving it a good think, of course, but for me, really it's all about gut feeling and that is what it boils down to you too).

How do you feel when you talk to a person? Be with them? Explain something to them?

Are they even WILLING to acknowledge fact – think rationally – and so forth?

Are they WILLING to do what it takes to improve their own lives as opposed to rant?

In most cases, I've found the answer to be a huge NO .

And in these cases, I used to give people a second chance, and third chance ,and fourth, and .... until I realized THEY were dragging ME down with THEM.

Yes.

Whether we realize it or not, we ARE the sum of people we “hang out with the most”.

And if it's you in your cave that you hang out with most, well ...

... And Napoleon Hill, of course, given the amount of readin gI do on him!

Anyway, here's the point.

Remove that which you don't want from your life, and what you DO want will replace it so quickly that you'll never miss what you removed.

Trust me.

I've seen it happen so many times that I cannot even say it – and I've WRITTEN about it as many times or more as well.

And I've EXPERIENCED it myself too.

Anyway. Thats ONE reason, but the other thing I want to say now, and that I've been ruminating about for the past 15 minutes or so?

Is this, my friend.

That people have a tendency to “leech”.

I don't know why it is, but every time I try and discuss something that matters to me, I either get NO response, or “the messages are too long”, or “I'm too busy right now” - - and yet, these same busy people would drop what they're doing in a New York Minute to listen to some idiotic TV show, or some political debate, or some nonsense that matters NOT in the grand scheme of things.

Same thing for fitness and “having no time”. Of course! 

And while I used to accomodate these people in the past, I do NOT any more.

And a red flag to me is this.

When people discuss something with you, and you have an opposing opinion, and you state it, and thats that, and yet they keep trying to “convince” you despite the two of you (or more) clearly being in a position where “your perception of what is fact is the polar opposite from the other person” and therefore the “debate” or discussion has zero point, and you then “back down” (by not engaging in any more).

And then they get back with “How's it going there”.

Something which you had been asking them for a while, which of course they ignored.

And when you tell them how it is going, they ignore it and back to the roundtable that really “goes nowhere” 

Not to mention some of the situations yours truly gets into are situations most people have never been in due to whatever reason, and so it's frustrating to “have to understand the other person” but the reverse not happening to YOU.

And I'm sure if you're reading this right now – YOU TOO can relate to this!

Last, but not least, you might want to think that the people I “remove” from my life are “bad” people or “not motivated” or “never going to make it”, or something like that.

Well, maybe in some cases, or a lot, but not all.

Many times, they're just not the right “fit” anymore, and especially with all the spiritual babbling yours truly does, sometimes I dont blame them for not being the right fit.

Hey, it ain't for everyone, the spiritual side of life!

Anyway, enough on that. But really, important life lessons there for those that choose to LEARN (listen first, and then learn – not ignore!).

And thats that for now. Back soon! 

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Here is where you can pick up the BEST damned fitness system ever – the 0 Excuses Fitness System.

PS#2 – And this also is another reason I RARELY if ever get into politcial debates anymore with ANYONE. Sometimes emotion clouds logic (often does) – and while thats great in a way, it doesnt make for logical discussion to say the least! Hehe.

PPS – Now emotion, you say. Picture yours truly knocking out some of the hardest versions of pull-ups out there on CHAINS – no less. And good news?? You can get there too- HERE is the course that will do it (and yes, I don't “pander”. My stuff is for thos ethat get it, and really do it, and those that know getting hte HARD stuff out of the way is the key to achieving ANYTHING – either fitness wise, or life wise!).

For whatever reason, the plague that China spread has had more than one unintended effect.

One being something I'm sure not even the powers that be at the PRC thought about.

And that is that the number of “excuse makers” (along with a lot of other negative things) have increased exponentially this year.

As has my “block” finger. My trigger finger in this regard, hehe. I cannot recall one damn year before this where the vast majority of folks out there (and no, this ain't about supporting Trump or not or politics in general) are unable to see what is clearly placed – right infront of them – on a platter!

Then again, maybe thats why you do it the hard way, and work for that knowledge, or insight, or what have you. Hehe.

And the way I do it ...

But anyway this morning I wrote about getting back to my old routine in terms of timings.

And one of the things that I was thinking about during the “head banging” I was doing at the number of people that were pestering me with inane nonsense of all kinds (I mean really, a discussion is one thing, but simply saying the same thing over and over again don't make it right, my friends!) was this.

I've made no secret of the fact that I have crappy genetics, for one. Working out hasn't come naturally to me (no doubt in large part due to my upbringing which focused on the exact opposite of physicality. Indeed “those brutes” were how my mother for one referred to strongmen ... probably still does).

Or, “he probably eats all of their food”!

And other such silly stuff.

It impacts a kid though, and along with the pink dumbbells nonsense, and a chinning bar being installed in the house but no-one teaching me HOW to do chin-ups for one – well ..

But anyway, it is what is it.

Then you have certain other situations which I often seem to end on the “toughest” side of.

Life does seem to give it's toughest battles to the strongest warriors!

And of course, all of this makes it hard to (combined with my no nonsense say it like is approach) connect meaningfully with all but the bare MINIMUM of people.

So this morning, and indeed sometimes when I feel down, or whatever, here is what I thought.

And told me.

What can you do NOW, Rahul?

Why are you feeling the way you ARE – NOW?

And most importantly, #3.

What can you do NOW – better than the rest?

Sage questions all of 'em, and yet so simple.

I believe I answered #2 in the last email (oh and yeah – we're still waiting on the mailing service to go up, so please bear wth me in that regard) ...

And I believe in a way I answered #1 and #3 as well.

And as I go to post some stuff somewhere for a biz unrelated to this, the thought struck me – again.

What can you do NOW – despite everything else – that will make you stand out – better than them?

There is ALWAYS something you can do – NOW.

Even if you think times are the direst they've ever been, there is always hope and inspiration provided you're willing to reach out to it!

And so it goes, my friend. Back soon with more!

Best,

Rahu lMookerjee

PS – This last month has been a month of “learning” for even yours truly in many regards. Who woulda thunk, for instance, that I'd be making sales WITHOUT a website (or my personal website) for that matter? But I did, and plenty of 'em on the other biz (for the other biz)! Always somethign to learn eh. Hehe.

I remember Uncle Bob laughing about something once, way, way back in the day ...

.. .about a certain mutual friend of ours.

... the “Major General” (not really, hehe) as it were.

And while specifics aren't important, let's just say Michael did the very thing back then that I do now (and I daresay made a ton of money while doing it).

(Is it any surprise my English name is Michael? Or my other “names” are ... ah, but we'll wait until the other site is back up to go there. ;))

But either way, he made the following comment once ...

... “and get a real job” (he was referring to our friend).

Not necessarily in a BAD manner either.

But get this.

While both of us (uncle Bob and myself) were bored stiff in the corporate world aching for a change, the 'General' was living the change (self created for the most part).

He was working from home. Working his own hours. Drinkning a ton of beer and having a ton of fun (that bit applies to me too, but hey! ;)) ... and most importantly, perhaps, at the tim eI met him making more money than either one of us was for the “hours” he put in (and enjoyed!).

And so forth.

And I get the same thing thrown at me all the time.

“I'm working”, I'll tell someone. Could be anyone.

Oh ok.

Where's your office? What do you do ?

I tell them.

Oh, you write. Great. But whats your real job?

And so forth ...

... Apparently writing and producing the amount I do on a damn nearly basis, and high quality stuff all of it isn't a real job?

What would these people tell me if I told them what Ford once told others?

“Thinking is by far the hardest job”.

Thats right.

Sitting still, focusing your mind on ONE THING WITHOUT DISTRACTIONS – and thinking – ruminating and on that ONE THING – for hours.

Is indeed one of th etoughest jobs out there!

And one that I can lay claim to being pretty good as of late.

Anyway, the same thing happens fitness wise.

Oh, pushups, you hear them sneer. But what about fitness?

You know you need the gym to get fit!

And so forth.

The comments pour forth from the brainwashed, and perhaps more surprisingly so, during the lockdowns everywhere, people haven't figured out to find a way, and are instead ranting on about closed gyms, “depression”, and the like.

Fiddlesticks my friend.

I just got a brief little stretching workout in that would floor most gym goers and Crossfitters from the word go.

Took me about 3 minutes in all, and I BE BUZZING now.

With energy, verve and vigor, and ready to go ... again!

Nah. Not what you think, hehe.

But really, the point stands

These preconcieved notions about “what it is” and what it “should be” are just stupid my friend.

Ditch them today – especially fitness wise. Best choice you'll ever make bro!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Here is the best fitness system out there (to put it simply and plainly!) - the 0 Excuses Fitness System. And yes, you DO need to grab it NOW.