With all my new workout schedules, styles, different exercises, new ones, combos of new and old ones and what not, something strange happened.

And something I’ve often been guilty of doing without even consciously recognizing or knowing it.

Something we ALL do unconsciously (though for the life of me I can’t figure out why!).

That being, to, for whateve rreason STOP doing what works best for YOU.

Coul dbe the intense mental work I’m putting in certain regards these days. Something that worked wonders for me just a couple of years back, and yet I stopped doing it inexplicably in 2019!

And the workouts?

Well, I’ve been doing ’em, but with a slight twist.

What has always worked best for me is wake up – and go get here done

But these days, I’m doing something different for whatever reason – slightly different.

I wake up – write to you, or check business emails etc, and then after that get her done.

Not a huge delay, but it’s a delay regardless.

Anyway, this morning I was feeling CRANKY.

Off.

All was NOT well with the world, despite the super handstand pushup workout last night.

I was attacting bazillions of junk messages all over the place (all went to DELETE).

People looking to moan and groan. Complain. A shoulder to cry upon.

And so forth.

Nothing wrong once in a while with all of the abov e-hey. I’ve been there. You’ve been there. We all do it, but when it;s just talk, talk, talk and IGNORE what the other person is saying, or keep asking idiotic baseless meaningless questions to prolong the conversation (or keep repeating the same thing like a stuck record) – thats when and why I hit DELETE. Or block usually …

Anyway, I slammed the laptop shut (not really, hehe. Closed!).

And out I went.

Tea was left undrunk.

I did a different workout today. No climbing, no rope jumps, no pushups.

Did plenty of that last afternoon …

I shouldn’t say no pushups, but anyway, I just Ran.

A slow run to start with. Picked up pace in the middle. Three rounds around the BIG park, and two again.

Then I did 25 pull-ups.

Then I repeated three rounds of RUNNING, picking up the pace even more (not sprinting, but still).

And then, 15 pull-ups.

Back home.

Stretched out. Launched into a 10 minute handstand routine (static holds, HSPU’s).

And now, my friend, I’m off to the shower. And I’m ready to take on the world, hehe.

Lesson being – do what worked for you my friend. And what WORKS.

We all stop doing it every once in a while, but we ALL (when our results falter in any regard) need to kick ourselves in the butt once and get going on that same path again.

I know one damn thing.

I’ve always been happiest and the most productive when my fitness and health (and what I really, really wanted out of life – see site #3, hehe, still not online) took priority over damn near everything else.

Take care of yourself FIRST bro.

You can only take care of others thereafter. And ther est will fall into place!

OK – back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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Why do I say this? The obvious …

Well, first off, because … it’s true.

And second, because of the whinging and moaning you see when people work out.

Often times people ignore the bloody OBVIOUS staring them in the face.

And do everything possible to make EXCUSES and not workout.

The #1 excuses amongst all this being?

“I can’t find a gym” (closely followed by “I have no time to workout”)

(And yet have time to gaggle away nineteen to the dozen on the phone or check useless social media updates, or obsess about how Pres Trump will beat the count, or other factors entirely out of your control)

Don’t get me wrong. Ain’t nothing wrong with ANY OF THAT, brah.

But the point of me saying this is this … that sometimes, what you overlook as easy or “it won’t give me a workout can giv eyou the workout of your LIFE”.

For example, over the past few days (and I’m writing thi sin a different vein) I’ve been engaged in a different sort of challenge, a challenge that would SHOCK most people if I told ’em what it was.

That being the “no workout, gain no weight – LOSE if possible” challenge.

IT was something that came to me on the spur of the moment.

And over the past few days I’ve been quietly doing this and following my own dictum.

(Note – what I’ve been doing is something I have NOT revealed as yet. Not in 0 Excuses Fitness System. Not in Advanced Hill Training. Not in ANY Of my products.)

And note this too – what might be workout from hell for most people is NOT a workout whatssover for me, but that ain’t the point either.

(for instance, my definiton of nothing might be “50 pushups a day” which might and probably will leave the average gym Bubba floundering in a pool of sweat on the floor).

But no, this ain’t about THAT.

This is about more than that.

And I won’t let the cat out of the bag just yet, but let me just say I DID LOSE weight on this regimen, much the same as I mention in Advanced Hill Training, right like that, day by day!

Truly wondrous isnt it?

Anyway, back to workouts.

What I ALSO discovered was this.

That I’ve been ignoring certain things.

Take handstand pushups for instance.

Yours truly Mr. HandStand pushup was doing two workouts a day a while back, just to change things up.

Then what he did above.

And today when I got back to (or set a new PR) of 5000 jumps, I decided to do something different again.

I held a handstand. For time.

Amazingly enough, for a guy that can pump these out in sets of 10 and not feel it … i felt it!

Now, that doesnt mean I couldn’t do it.

I did it.

But still, it’s amazing how the smallest of things can give you a solid workout from hell, and as I finished, my main workout in that regard wasn’t the pushups – it was the static holds I teach you in the book.

Believe me. There is a reason I teach the handstand pushup the way I do, different from how most people do it.

It’s harder that way, sure.

But I’ve always been a huge believer in getting the hard stuff out of the way and gettni gbetter at the hard stuff – FIRST!

Believe me again, and trust me later.

This approach has paid rich dividends – all my life – in every field of life.

And fo rme, it wasn’t so much the trap workout – but the SPATIAL awareness that felt new, as I stayed in the position for what felt like hours (but was 2 minutes).

Believe you me, them two minutes go by SLOW sometimes! 😉

Hehe.

And that concludes this one. There is ALWAYS something to learn, bro!

Quit complaining and just DO it.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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(and thats who I want to get the course – the truly SERIOUS – rest need not “apply”!)

Many years ago, or I should “when I was born” yours truly was born with many unique gifts. Like we all are!

And yours truly was born with a mind, will power, and an insatiable desire to “keep getting back up after beating down in a bloody manner” (not always literally – but sometimes, yes).

Something that annoys the heck out of most people for whatever reason, and appeals to my biggest supporters, big time.

And something that is a hallmark of EVERY successful person down the ages no matter what field we’re referring to.

But this isn’t about that.

Fitness wise, I’ve been born with crappier genetics than you’d think (and that most don’t believe).

I cannot tell you how I want to BARF when I hear, for instance, that “oh, it’s easy for you!”

No it ain’t my friend. It never was.

I was never the biggest or strongest guy at school.

I was never naturally good at pushups, and the only fitness advice I got when growing up was “lift pink dumbbells for 15 minutes a day” as that “will make the muscles on the arms sprout!”

Yee HAAAAAA!

(all the while, of course, while those that told me that marveled at the “bods on screen” and said “they did it”, but you? “he thinks he’s so strong!” )

(And when I did do it, and better, of course, the first thing my SO told me? You need to gain some weight! Pronto!)

LOL – can’t win for losing eh.

But anyway, point of this being.

Pull-ups. As an example.

I am the body type that puts on weight VERY easily, and it’s VERY NOTICEABLE (perhaps thats why people point it out a lot?LOL again).

But the flip side to this is … when I GET IN SHAPE (or stay in shape) then I truly do “look like a movie star” in many ways.

Really. No kidding.

Or like “my back is built” and “I go to the gym (natural gym)”

And so forth.

And so I effectively turned what was a disadvantage into an advantage by first working my weak areas heavily.

You truly are as strong as the weakest links in your chain!

And the other key to this?

Never be embarassed or shy about your disadvantages (provided it’s something you can’t do much about at the time).

In fact, EMBRACE them and be OPEN about them!

And you have to look no farther than President Trump right now whose doing all he can NOT to give up while the babel around him to “concede” what is obviously a “bought” election rises in volume and intensity.

Trump got where he was by defying the odds. And though he might lose this battle, he WILL win the WAR.

Moving on from that, I’ve mentioned my other site being down havent I?

Again, for no real “fault” of mine (something I really couldn’t control).

I anticipated it being down for a week or so, no more.

It’s been two and counting …

I’ve got posts written up, searing HOT posts written and ready to go.

When the site did get online for a brief while, I posted three of these.

BAM. Down again! (and no, it ain’t this site or the rahulmookerjee.com site I’m referring to).

I stopped posting again. “Waited” for the other site to be back up.

But all the while, the posts were “gnawing” to be posted …

… and I did it.

I posted on my Medium account for that site, although I’d originally planned fo r them to go on MY site first and anywhere else later.

But, do what you can. Do SOMETHING!

And a few minutes after I did it, the sale I made on Amazon vilified what I did.

Not only that – I was pretty open about the fact the site was down(and that we’re working to get it back up asap)

Moral of the story is?

Don’t back away from your weaknesses my friend.

EMRACE them.

And then LEARN from them – and GROW from them. And beat ’em!

Hit ’em where it hurts the hardest, and one of the ways you can do that is THIS way!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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Well, well, well.

I’ve been speaking about visualization a lot ove rthe past few days I believe (and yes, for those that are wondering what happened to the daily emails – patience, grasshopper. We’re testing out a new email system as it were, and while you might recieve a few occasionally by and now, we probably won’t be back to “full swing” before next week or thereabouts. Such as it goes).

But anyway, visualization is one of the tools I talk about a lot.

In 0 Excuses Fitness, I give you an example of how a student “Tracy” used this technique to blast past “past bests” in terms of learning a new language without even trying externally.

And the same thing applies to fitness. Hence what I say about this topic in the book on pull-ups, for instance.

Yes, that is right!

One of the most “feared” and physical exercises out there is actually more mental than you’d think.

As life in general is.

It’s all about whats going in between your ears, and most of us (and I realize you may not believe this) have NO idea of what is (the chaos) between our ears.

In our minds.

Our BRAINS.

And hence, chaotic results at best, or none at all. Goes for fitness too!

And anyway, I’ve often spoken about how “every adversity carries with it a seed of equivalent benefit or more” (not the flower of full blown success but the SEED from which said flower may be said to germinate).

And it’s TRUE my friend. It’s TRUE.

What do I mean?

Well, this really.

Or an example. (My train of thought suddenly disappeared to emailing you while writing this).

Over the past month or so I’ve been at a very noisy place – and the noise just INCREASES day by day with SCANT regard for how much I “hate” it.

Yes, yours truly is a caveman for a reason.

I do my best work in peace and quiet. Without phones ringing, the damn TV BLARING, cartoons hither and thither, pots and pans clanging, doorbells ringing of the jimmy, a bazillion people interrupting me just as I’m about to write something (just that minute. Hehe).

And curiously enough or not, I’ve (as I wrote to you about before) amped my MENTAL meditiation techniques a lot more.

Of course, life amped it’s punches too, and if you’ve ever tried meditating (most haven’t) – and doing so with all sorts of noise around you willy nilly, well, let me tell ya, it’s something that will test – and BRING – the BEST out of you.

And I’ve figured out a way to do it … even in the noisiest of places, and no, it isn’t necessarily “white noise” though that helps.

What do I mean?

Well, patience, grasshopper,. I’ll be sending out more details on this as we go along, but rest assured, the secret applies to fitness as well.

And back to muscle – and whats between your ears.

Your brain truly decides everything, my friend, and the seed of super fitness lies (certainly!) NOT in you rgenetics or even so much your conscious thoughts or “what you do consciously)” as your THOUGHTS.

Think – and you will GET FIT – fitter than a fiddle!

Meditate on that a while, and you’ll see, for instance, why I say Hindu pushups often put you in a “trance like, receptive” state especially when done in the higher numbers.

All for now! I’m going to email you guys about this NOW – but we’ll be switching to a “different” system on this (the emailing) – – very soon. Stay tuned!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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The entire world is awash with … hypocrisy these days.

And of course the outrage. The sheer outrage, mostly from the Left at Trump having “declared he’s won”.

It’s insane (not reall,y hehe, not if you know how to do it!) how a simple one line comment that Trump, or any successful marketer makes “off the cuff” (again, not really, but we won’t get into that here ;)) generates so much controversy.

I mean, he said it like it is.

Or like he FEELS it is.

Which is the entire key, along with a host of other keys that Trump probably just KNOWS (or has done so often in his life that it’s seond nature now to him – much like it was second nature to yours truly from the day he was BORN most likely).

Now, point of me saying this?

Well, it’s this.

The hypocrisy for one. The left that is actively rigging the election as we speak. Areas with populations of 300 K for one receving double and more votes than that (to be counted, of course, “later”!).

And of corse, the very people that claim they’ll be “tough on China” or so forth doing the exact opposite thing privately.

Need I say more?

I dont think so my friend. And Trump says what he thinks about it, and gets the “he’s making false claims! How dare he”.

Why would be a better question, and it’s amazingly obvious.

“You post inflamamtory articles” I still remember a friend of mine saying. “Which is fine, but … “

Except it isn’t because if it was truly fine he wouldn’t notice it in the first place. Hehe.

Which brings me to the point I often make.

One of them.

Along with getting to be an utter STUD at pull-ups if you follow what I tell you to do in my inital book – – proof in the pudding as it were, and along with getting to be a bonafide stud x 10 and then some if you do whats in the advanced book – I often make the claim o fhaving lost 60 kgs in but a few weeks.

I often make a claim of losing weight right AFTER a workout!

And many more.

Now, a lot of these claims don’t “sound” true.

But they are.

And as of claims that “sound good” as I’v ebeen accused of?

Well, believe it or not, sounding good is the least of my priorities – in fact it is not even on the bucket list of priorities.

I COULD probably sell a lot more by saying “0 Excuses Fitness works best if you do with a gaggle of admirers egging you on and taking selfies and what not at the ole gym”.

I COULD and WOULD probably sell a hell of a lot more copies of Pushup Central i fI said “pushups are just a prelim to bench presses”

I COULD probably sell a TON of books if I said “my stuff is mostly conditioning and prepares you for the real deal which is weights”

And a ton of other sales would probably FLOOD me if I said any of the above three in conjunction with some of the other rubbish that the sheeple, bozos and lazy fools believe.

And yet, I don’t.

Why.

Because that ain’t me, my friend.

When you buy 0 Excuses Fitness, for one, or any of my books or products or are on my list, read my writing etc, you’re getting ME.

Plain and simple.

Along with that you get stuff that flat out WORKS.

The nitty gritties. The down and dirties. The “in the trenches” info.

None of that is particularly “nice to say” or “sexy” or politically correct or any of the other rubbish in vogue nowadays.

But guess what – it works. Flat out works – and works better than any other fitness related stuff out there!

And yours truly can prove it.

And feels no need to make any false claims whatsoever.

And on that note, I’m out. Here is where you can pick up the best damned fitness system ever, if you so choose …

Best,

Rahu lMookerjee

PS – Plenty of tips in that above email. Hehe. And there are MORE in ALL my products. Take a gander NOW my friend.

My daughter, for whatever reason, has always been a fan of handicrafts so long as I remember.

Well, now that I write this … so was I. Until a certain age! 😉

And she recently made a (and showed me a) beautiful “pen holder” made out of nothing but an empty soap carton.

A cute little thing if there ever was one, but she makes plenty of ’em, and what caused me to stop and ponder when I “saw” this one??

Well, something.

The sheer creativity, especially the kiddie frills at the back of it. Slim “shards” of carton dangling down at just the right angles!

Perhaps it’s also her Mom, of course, that we need to give credit to here – who makes “homes” for her out of empty Amazon boxes. Hehe. Creative to a T in certain regards is my significant other, I’ll say and GIVE HER that much!

Anyway …

0 Excuses Fitness, my friend, was NOT planned.

It was a random idea.

Out of the blue.

Suddenly came to me, and I Still remember. It was 7PM, going on 8 as I sat there in my apartment, beer in hand (I think, but maybe not) and just “did it.

I booked the domain. Created the site. And the rest is, well, history …

I’d been thinking along similar lines for a while, but when it came to me, much like the “Think and Grow Rich” title came to Napoleon Hill’s mind all those years ago, and replaced “Use your noodle to get the Kaboodle” (or something like that) – I just did it. Like he did.

Like all great men, and every other successful person (Donald trump being one prime example) did and have done throughout history.

Gut feeling.

The inner voice speaketh!

And when it does, as Claude Bristol famously said in the Magic of Believing, you better be ready to ACCEPT what it says.

As he said inspiration often strikes out of the blue. Well, it wasn’t Bristol who said that but there is a good reason behind the saying.

And what it mean is what Claude said, that being that when you intensely ponder a problem from all angles and positions, for instance, and then (unable to arrive at a suitable solution), lop off to sleep for one?

The next day you wake up recharged. Perhaps feeling GREAT. On top of the world.

And out of the blue, out of nowhere, the solution hits you.

It may sound crazy. May come at a busy time (usually does).

But you have to recognize the urge, act accordingly and just do it, for though the time is never right as they say, the time is NOW in terms of that “solution”!

And those that live life in the flow know what I BE talking about.

Anyway, fitness wise, you the reader often get the urge, I’m sure, to drop the gym and check out what Rahul Mookerjee is yelling about.

All the time.

At the top of his lungs.

Silently albeit!

That being, bodyweight exercises are the very best way to get fit, strong and healthy as a horse for your entire life, and given the results in front of you, can YOU honestly say you don’t want to be knocking out pull-up workouts and be done with ’em in less than 15 minutes?

OR don’t want to bang out 100 pushups daily?

Or don’t want to sprint hills?

Or so forth …

… And given the amount of peopl ethat haunt (and yes, I got that from my little girl, hehe, truly a fount of knowledge even at her age though she don’t know it as yet) my site, space, and everything else … I’d say hell yes.

Else they wouldn’t be doing it. Hehe.

Give in to that urge myf riend. Just do it.

You never know – you might be pleasantly surprised!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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PS #2 – Random ideas are how I wrote this post – and how I fixed a VEXING issue with the popups on the site. Yes, most people didnt “like” the pop-ups. But they are back with a bang – and for a good reason, hehe. Sign up NOW my friend. ’tis FREE!!

PPS – I’ve put emailing on hold for a while, but I’m about to restart. Stay tuned! (perhaps within the next couple of days again. Change of provider. Long story. Amen! Hehe).

So I’ve been doing some thinking as of late.

Remembering some things.

And as memory floods back, I remember the roar of the ocean. The “nothingness” and “Everything” the ocean represents, especially choppy oceans with giant waves, and that constant “roar” …

I can still remember it.

On the beach. Staring out at the ocean for hours on end.

OR those beach runs at night …

And many other things, but for now, between the years of 2010 till 2012 (and indeed my whole life, hehe, from various angles) an attempt was made to “put me in my place” (albeit very indirectly in some ways and directly in others) by those you’d consider closest to you (or many would, at any rate).

People that have always pooh poohed what yours truly accomplished, choosing to focus on what I did not i.e. The BS THEY wanted me to accomplish for THEIR OWN selfish “wants”.

And it didnt work out, of course.

The strong willed, and indeed as “Malcom” in Jurassic Park so famously said of the dinosaurs that couldn’t breed (supposedly so) – that “life finds a way!”

And so does the subconscious, my friend. So does the subconscious!

And those periods in the Middle East, those dehumanizing (in many ways) and “depressing” (again in many ways) during the tumultous period yours truly worked for a couple of large multinationals in the Middle East and before that in a suburb of Delhi in India no less (back in the day) came to mind.

It’s no secret I don’t work a job.

But it’s also no secret that I’v ebene happiest and accomplished the MOST when I chose my own path.

And curiously enough for a period after getting married due to whatever reason I didnt, before of course yours truly reverted to type.

Does a fox change its colors?

Or a lion shed it’s mane (coat)? Hehe, I thought not.

Neither did I.

Anyway, point of this isn’t to rant about the past, but the wonderful things MEDITATION can do during times of deep turmoil (such as what the World is going through NOW).

Do you often feel as if you’re “stuck somewhere due to (and indeed, it’s true!) no fault of your own”?

And I don’t necessarily means lockdowns etc …

And youd be right in asssuming that a LOT of peopel are going through this right now.

Work is slow (for many). Money is drying up (for many). And many other things.

Stuck at home with SO’s when both grate on each other nerves.

And … well, you get the picture!

There are days when you feel like “doing nothing”. Maybe you’ll exercise. Maybe you’ll do your work. Maybe you’ll … but you won’t accomplish much.

That mind will never calm.

And in these turbulent times there are two things that can help you and GET YOU OUT OF them – much like they always have for me in every bad situation I faced/was throwin into (insert terms of choice).

(Not to mention being cheated durnig those years. Anyway …)

One being meditation, and it has to be done right.

Many people are surprised at the spiritual side of me, especially given my viscerality in writing , speaking and thinking – and physcial prowress in other areas.

And yet, this (not) jock IS a deeply spiritual man, as those truly close to me know.

And tuning into yourself is one of the best things you can do during these tough times.

Do so RIGHT though.

And you’ll truly experience what Claude Bristol referred to in “TNT – the Magic Force” – that being the power of going “within”. Into nothingness.

Think of nothing, and all your problems will fade away, my friend.

And it’s true.

And along with this, PHYSICAL exercise is key.

Could be walks on the beach. Could be runs. Could be pull-ups. Could be anything.

Key is to short bursts of exercises throughout the day to keep yourself fresh and mentally charged – and ready to HIT IT!

And that, my friend, is really (or are really) the two KEYS.

Have at!

Best,

Rahu lMookerjee

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I wrote about this a while ago, but not a long time ago. Those of you on my list paying attention should get it, hehe.

But along with core, let’s talk about GRIP as well.

And first, a bit of a story (flashback).

Back in the day, I believe Gorilla Grip, easily still the bestselling course here (though Pushup Central is fast threatening to shoot ahead!) was the first book I wrote on fitness.

Even before I wrote all my other books. Hehe.

And it was a nifty little neat manual which I later expanded in 2017, when I ramped up 0 Excuses Fitness.

And while I wrote a bit more on grip in the revamped edition including a “special just for YOU” primer to the book (really, it’s a MUST READ if just for that primer worth its weight in GOLD!), there was something I then did.

I revamped the book on pull-ups with something I thought of for years, but never put in the book. Once I tried and tested it (which I had at that point) I did!

And of course, the results peopel got were OFF THE CHARTS.

But perhaps the most important thing that came out of all this tweaking was the (were the) numerous changes I made to my pathbreaking book Shoulders Like Boulders!

One, I put in the exercises you NEED to do in order to get better at handstands and handstand pushups.

Two, I emphasized WHY I do things the way I do and why I teach the exercise the way I do – opposite from most “experts” and while I wrote this part way back in 2010, I addded ON TO IT.

Again, worth its weight in gold if I might say so.

Three, and extremely important, I showed you how to position the fingers when doing palm handstand pushups – another killer tip which most people “miss” when they start.

And fourth, and more importantly, I told you just why handstand pushups build the grip – and CORE like they do!

It sounds strange to most people to begin with, of course, that handstands build the grip.

You’ll hear grippers. Pull-ups. Fingertip pushups. And so forth.

All of which are great options, but believe me, despite the fingers not “crushing” as they do in most of the above movements (or the reverse as in fingertip pushups) the very act of balancing your entire bodyweight on your arms send your WRIST And FOREARMS into overdrive!

Blink and you’ll miss it, but years ago (and Is poke about this many times) in 2007 or so I believe, I was fairly strong.

Did plenty of pushups, hill climbs etc, but I couldnt hold a handstand for more than a few seconds, if even that.

I had WRIST PAIN when I did ’em. Big time! And I wrote about that too … including a nasty bone spur I once developed on the left wrist (my naturally stronger hand) while doing these.

This went away after I Started doing MORE pushups – but numbers weren’t the key.

The variety and style of pushups were …

But really.

My FOREARMS feel sore after a good handstand workout, and it’s for a reason.

First, your whole body weight is placed on the forearms. Second, the flexion. Third, well, bodyweight on wrists, and fourth, the way you push that much weight on an entirely vertical base really taxes the supporting muscles too.

Am I saying don’t do pull-ups with it?

No.

But by themselves, and in and as of themselves to be honest, handstands and handstand pushups are great for the grip – and the above “story” (true!) should tell you why too.

Anyway, the core, you ask?

Well, gee whiz.

Just do a handstand, and you’ll soon see that other than the shoulders it’s not your arms or anything that shake first if you do it right.

Believe me now and trust me later, when you lose focus, or start tiring, it’s not the arms or shoulders, but the CORE that starts wobbling.

Think about the super core workout pushups give you. On the floor.

Then take that weight, and double it or whatever, and amp the load on the lower back and upper abs for one (and the entire internal “trasversus abdominus” or whatever you call that little muscle internally that is REALLY responsible for holding your abs in and sucking the fat off).

IF your entire core feels tigher after a good handstand pushup workout, its because the GLUTES are heavily taxed too, bro.

And the thighs as well (though not as much as in regular and other styles of floor pushups I teach in Pushup Central -t hats for sure).

Well, my friend, thats enough info for now. I just got done doing a set of these, and my abs feel so tight a Mack Truck could run over it, hehe.

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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Interesting one, ain’t it?

And one that just came to mind for yours truly, much like a lot of the stuff that (as of late) I’ve been talking to you about has and DOES …

I was finishing up a set of 15 handstand pushups.

For some reason, I broke this down into 7, 1 3, and 4.

Don’t ask why.

Just worked out that way!

But I feel energized again, not to mention feel like I got a super lat and trap workout in less than 3 minutes I think.

And will sleep like a baby too, given this set got me to 45 (5 more to go) and given 3000 jumps are out of the way.

But really.

And I actually Googled this idly.

“Are handstand pushups tougher than pull-ups?”

It’s something that peopel think about, but haven’t asked me as yet (not one single person as yet).

And I never did put it in the FAQ book because the answer is obviously subjective (each person has his own take on it, quite obviously).

But overall?

The pull-up is one of the TOUGHEST exercises for most adults, bar none.

But I really, really believe that muscle ups and their variants apart, the good ole handstand pushup and certain versions of pushups are even tougher.

Not so much because you can’t get good at ’em.

You can.

The criteria is the same as for pull-ups, as Ive mentioned in my books …

But really, handstand pushups are just IGNORED.

And the massive trap workout (and lat) workout that you get from these – using what are normally “pull” muscles to push … well, let me just say the results beggar belief my friend.

And overall, given the number of people that can do either exercise well?

I’d say WAY more people can do pull-ups (and that ain’t a lot) than those that can do handstand pushups …

And if you get to free standing handstand pushups – even ONE – well, you’re in the rarest of rare category.

Now, you who is overweight and fat (some of you are, not all) may be thinking th efollowing.

“How does this benefit ME”

“How does heck does this advanced stuff benefit ME”

Well, it does.

My friend, here’s the deal. Even if all you do throughout the day is get up into a handstand and hold (even if it’s a partial version where the weight isn’t entirely on them shoulders) for say a few seconds – your strength and conditioning WILL improve.

I often tell people that the best way to get better at pull-ups is by doing pushups, and for those that can, tons and tons of handstand pushups.

Crank out 50 per workout at least, and pull-ups will become SOOOO Easy you’ll wonder why you ever had any trouble.

But really, the two exercises are symbiotic to the extreme and you should do both.

And it’s just the “balance” part of the handstand pushup (as well as the facts that it doesnt a) let you cheat and b) is EVEN more unforgiving of LARD around the old tummy) that makes it harder for most people, I bet.

But it doesnt have to!

Pick up my course right here today, and get started my friend.

I look forward to hearing back about your progress.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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Someone recently told (advised, I believe he would say) my wife the following.

“Try and avoid crowds, especially during the festive season. The COVID rates are really increasing!”

Now, the plague from China is what I’d call it. COVID sounds like way too polite and dignified a team for the biowarfare that the People’s Republic knowingly, willingly and gloatingly released upon the ROW – a reality a lot of folks are yet to come to terms with.

Not the actual plague itself, but the Chinese intentions.

I mean, but really.

These days in the news, it seems there is nothing but this blasted COVID related news going around, which is nothing but a “super flu’ basically, and 9 out of 10 people that do “get it” DO RECOVER!

Which is a fact oft ignored in all this PANIC.

Another thing oft ignored during this panic-demic is this.

That out of the 10 people that do get it, most, if not all have SOME underlying conditioning which weakens the immune system first.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say what Trump did, that being doctors falsely inflate COVID counts etc (though there might be some truth to what he said).

But I WILL say that people attach way too much importance to the numbers and the panic being spread by the media.

At the end of the day, that old Claude Bristol saying holds true my friend.

As we think, so we are.

This holds true for families. Individuals. Societies. Countries.

And if we buy into panic on the whole, then PANIC is what reigns.

If we try and stay optimistic as a whole, then THAT is what registers with the subconscious.

IF we buy into Hilter like thinking (and while China is one country in the world that comes to mind, there are many others doing the same damn thing, India being another prime culprit though it’s not often talked about, of course!) then guess what happens.

What happens is, well, what happened during the World War. II.

And so on and so forth.

Personally, yours truly avoids crowds like the PLAGUE even when the China plague was nowhere to be seen (Except perhaps a lab in China).

You on this list are well aware of my distaste for crowds, especially when working out.

Other hand, they have their uses. Hehe. Lunar New Year 2018 being a prime example, when the pathbreaking Advanced Hill Training was written and filmed, all in two days FLAT.

On the spur of the moment.

Back to crowds though.

I mean, really my friend.

The Trumpinator for one holds massive rallies daily … people packed in shoulder to shoulder despite the COVID.

Is everyone that doesnt buy into the panic stupid?

OR is it the reverse?

And was it specifically sent out for the latter category, sheeple and more.

Point to ponder, eh. One that the POTUS already has, and one that I already have for that matter, one that is common sense.

Yours truly doesnt even have a face mask.

Dont plan on getting one, and never plan on wearing one unless I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO (and I don’t).

I socially distance.

Wash my hands.

Do things I would normally.

I exercise as much as I do normally, sometimes more, sometimes less.

And I try and tell people that the plague is the “overlying symptom” but the real issue is something else, and of course, no-one believes me.

But really my friend.

Precautions, not panic.

As I said the other day to a guy in the park …

“China done spread this and bailed. Now we as the ROW need to deal with it. What are you going to do about it?”

(He was asking me about lockdowns etc)

“Are you going to just stay at home and be “scared” the rest of your life because this ain’t going away anytime soon bro. It was engineered that way!”

(and believe you me, the China figures on the COVID are anything but real. In face right now, Qingdao is under lockdown (certain parts of it) from what I hear, and there are more, and … well, yours truly should know!)

The answer is obvious my friend.

Feed the RIGHT emotions, not the wrong ones.

Ok, enough on that.

But really, remember one thing.

It’s the super flu, and ain’t nothing other than that.

And a good solid exercise regimen is the best damn protection against it, bar none (and most of those who rail against not wearing masks etc, well, goodie – I’m not asking you to, or not to – but fact remains exercise is but a dream for most of these people. I should know. I’ve seen plenty!).

And so it goes.

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – For the best damned course on pushups out there, and indeed what many call “their favorite course ever from yours truly); go HERE : Pushup Central.