My wrist injuries – down the road, too many to list out here – not to mention that nasty(iest!) injury I incurred in 2018 when doing fingertip handstand pushups after the hill climb in cold, horrible weather in China.

Cold, damp, felt like several degrees below zero with the wind chill – when I went home, the COLD water from the tap felt warm on my hands so frozen were they!

Anyway – that one injury – although I can do fingertip handstand work, I’m still very leery and think twice – thrice – before actually doing it, putting ALL my focus into it!

It’s very easy to get injured with fingertip work, as I say in pushup Central.

I’ve popped that thumb more times – in and out – (no pun!) – than you can imagine doing fingertip pushups with sloppy form, or when “tired” …

And thats one thing you need to be careful about, but I’ve always had weak wrists, and my right, well, ever since I attempted a running jump out of an almost stopped bus (hey, no-one told me which foot to put down first, I had to figure it out myself!! i.e the right plane of motion and such)  – and landed on the wrong foot, then the right wrist, then the cast it was put in … then the Gorilla Grip a tennis player gave it when not recovered (OUCH!) …

(I remember the look he gave me, its what I give people now when they look at me shocked when I grip their hand, I’m like “but I just gripped it firmly!”) ..

How times change. Hehe.

Anyway ………..

It’s always been a weak point that I have strengthened, so to call it a weak link wouldn’t be accurate any more – my hamstrings if anything are the weak link now.

Sorta …

Anyway, point of me saying this in my usual verbose story telling manner – is this – in Pushup Central, I bring to you the “diamond pushup” – which truly is a forgotten diamond in your pushup training.

Aaron, an old friend of mine once told me in college “Look at the black dudes, those chests they build in prison!”

(he served some time for weed or something, I cannot remember, pity it wasn’t today where its pretty much legal)

And how do they do it – well, as he told me …

“Do what them nikkas do, diamond style!” 

And he was right.

I implemented his advice, and soon enough, Jay a friend of mine was telling me “your chest is starting to look like those black guys!”

Same Jay who till this date, years later calls me Macho Man, rightly so. Hehe.

But anyway – these pushups – while they tax your upper body in a fantastic and different manner – they can be, along with SOME of the other pushups (like fingers pointing backwards) – HARD on your wrists.

Lots of you have reported feeling twinges of pain, it’s happened to me too.

If this happens?

As I say for the Hindu pushup, simply move the wrists around to a comfortable position and then do ’em.

For diamond pushups, something that may work is not making the diamond fully with your thumbs, you leave “some” space between the fingers – not a lot, but that little bit matters a hell of a lot.

Same for the fingers pointing backward pushups …

Anyway, there is ONE style of pushup that is truly the forgotten pushup and that builds your lats, chest, triceps, like nothing you’ve ever done before – and it’s way easier on your wrists and joints too.

This is something the great Bruce Lee used to fantastic effect!

I dont call it the Bruce Lee “wing” pushup in the book, but maybe I should.

You’ll spot it, it’s the pushup I say you should be VERY careful when doing, you’ll barely be able to do one when you start…

And it’s a different finger/hand positioning than you’ve ever seen before including out there on the internet with all the rubbish out there.

Anyway, as I launch into my workout and make more green tea, thought I’d share that with ya!

And since I have now…

Best

Rahul Mookerjee

Recently, I was struck by how much my punches have become “smoother” – and not just that, but my cardio in that regard has gone through the roof, I seem not to get out of breath at all when punching … my makeshift heavy bag.

I was forced to take the “real” heavy bag due to some idiocy or the other. It’s sitting around staring me in the face – apparently my punches “made the house shake” and my Mom’s precious fridge, or fridges, or however many she has now were wobbling or something, so in 2018 – that came to an end.

Pity, buying and getting that heavy bag installed was one of the last few decent ideas my wife had, after that she gave up. Hehe. In that regard, of course, I dont blame her (although I got blamed for the initial idea as well, of course).

Anyway, this isn’t about that crap.

It’s about what I did later – I simply bought myself a new mattress, and fashioned a boxing (heavy) bag of sorts out of the old ones.

Not quite rolled and wrapped, but I have it against the cement wall at all angles, and I throw punches at it all the time.

Recently, I got back on my goal of 500 pushups daily.

And while working back up to that number, currently I’m at 200 per day or so … sometimes more, sometimes less, I was struck by … how SMOOTH my punches are.

And it’s not from doing countless pull-ups as you might imagine.

There is a reason why (despite doing tons of pull-ups in their training), boxers SWEAR by pushups my friend.

Sure, it – punching power – comes from the hips, core and back … and so my increased hip and core training – my back training (as always) – all of that contributes to the results I’m seeing.

But, pushups are truly what TIE it all together.

Pushups if done correctly are so much more than a shoulder and chest exercise.

And I ain’t talking Hindu pushups, or other fancier versions like the reverse pushup etc – all great in their own right, but I’m talking the BASIC pushups, boxer pushup covered in Pushup Central i.e. elbows in.

My friend, THIS is the pushup most boxers, old school or not, focus on the most.

Can you pop off a set of 50, slow and steady?

Most people, as a recent review said – have been found WANTING.

I’d bet you dollars to doughnuts most on this couldn’t do 50 pushups – regular – slow and steady, proper form.

And outside this list, well, probably even more couldn’t.

Or, the regular pushup done on fingertips – give me 25 slow steady ones?

Pushups, my friend, improve pushing power, but BOTH through the chest and back – which is what most people dont get.

Much like pull-ups use the triceps too, yet, like I’ve said before, and pointed out via example, pushups – you can never ignore them no matter how good you get at pull-ups, weighted pull-ups, the muscle up, or any other exercise.

NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING comes to the almighty pushup – especially the old school variants covered in Pushup Central.

Same thing leg training wise, while you could babble on about machines, treadmills, other leg workouts like step ups etc (which all have their place in the sun) – bottom line is this, if you ain’t squatting, my friend, you ain’t training. Its that simple, ask any doer, anyone you hold in any sort of high regard “results” wise – and they’ll tell you.

John Walker, a customer here once told me he tried (at his age, 65) to get 100 pull-ups.

Those are for you younger guys, he laughed about it later. He’s still got elbow problems months later from it – “twinges” basically – which I get, at his age, with all his injuries.

Yet, even at his age, his “easy workouts” or “not much” as he puts it involve 500 bodyweight squats and 100 (at least) pushups, and some pull-ups.

And that, my friend should tell you a lot.

Pushups, truly the big DOG as I say in 0 Excuses Fitness … Squats, same thing leg and lower body wise.

There’s the info.

What you choose to do with it, YOU DECIDE!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Lats should be used both for pushing, and pulling. And when you learn how to “pinch a penny between your shoulder blades” when doing pushups, you’ll understand the truism of this, and why BOTH pushups and pull-ups should be done for optimal effect …

PS #2 – Those of you that have already invested in Squat 101 – kudos – smart choice, amigo(s)!

Now, its time to write back with reviews, but of course – ONCE you implement, as you said (R)!

I’ll wait for you to get back – all of y’all! Hehe. (and remember, all genuine reviews get an extra 10% off automatically on your next purchase, so thats added incentive to leave a genuine review. As if you needed any more, hehe).

I still remember General Michael once telling me about “criticism seems to be your specialty, Rahul!”

For a guy who took a piece of code I wrote in 2004 (and there was NO other module available in that regard for Php Nuke at the time for what we wanted), and the first comment he made before “but it works!” – was “could it be prettier?” … well, that was interesting.

I suppose we all have our own ways of looking at things.

To me?

Yes, criticism has always been something I do – either mentally or verbally or both, directly or not – and I think it’s a damn good thing if done right.

For instance, if you don’t criticize what could be improved but isn’t due to sheer lack of willpower or laziness, then you’re in my opinion “joining that same herd”.

When I live in India, the state of the roads around me, the fact that monkeys, cows, dogs, all share the same living space as people in the capital of the country … when they shouldn’t be, it should be the Civic authorities job to put ’em in animal shelters, or do away with them, or cull them, or I dont know, as in China, just eat them, hehe …

When you dont have a trash can  – or dumpster around to throw your trash in – the most basic of items, and you have to depend on a guy showing up in a pushcart (if he chooses to show up – else you have mounds of trash sitting at home and there ain’t squat you can do about it) to cart it away …

When organizations like Walmart, Target etc – or supercenters of ANY real sort are not allowed into a country because of politics .. .

And so many other things you and I take for normal, granted (like walking down to the 7-11 to get a beer, for instance) – not working in a country which purports itself to be a world power – well, seriously, when I criticize these things and say “if we really love our country (we being “the citizens of any country”) then these things should be improved, period, there is no excuse no blaming the Brits or what not, this is something India and Indians need to fix, the MENTALITY, the thinking, period …

And there’s a lot more I haven’t brought up here. If I did, I’d write a book.

When I bring this up, people shrug and say “thats how it is”.

No desire to change, so nothing changes, same ole same ole, well, thats fine – but yours truly desires to change, which is why yours truly hardly ever lives there unless “forced to” for whatever reason.

And oddly enough, these same things I complain about publicly, people sit around the dinner table, my wife included (who complains when I bring it up with her, but apparently it’s ok for her to bring it up and say “India will never improve!”) .. .and discuss and moan about the same damned things.

Same thing in China, people complain about foreigners whining and moaning about things, but look behind the scenes, the Chinese do it too.

Some of it is excessive, yes.

But where is the line between constructive and not?

As I hear my wife holler at my daughter as usual (Which she, like me, now just tunes out “in through one ear, out through the other”) about some nonsense or the other, something about “I can never be criticized” – I wonder what happens when the shoe is on the other foot?

My wife, like most modern women “turned liberal” (read Nazi feminist) has no inkling of how to raise a kid.

And of course, with a mother that believes in the core tenets of Nazi feminism just as fiercely – it’s pointless to say anything to her about it.

It all descends down to one thing “I’m the woman, so I’m right”.

Oddly enough, she yells at my daughter for being on the phone all the time. OK, faire enough.

But when I told her NOT to buy my daughter a dumbphone, she’s not old enough as yet – no-one listened.

OK, fair enough …

Then the first thing my wife does after anything – upon arising in the morning – or just about anytime in the day?

Get on the dumbphone.

No exercise, no walking about, no outdoor activities, yet, she complains when my daughter follows her lead (in terms of the phone).

Like, kids ape adults – that is normal, eh.

But when adults set a terrible example themselves (and I just pointed out ONE) – then who is to say criticism isn’t warranted then?

She claims “but I do my own work too” which is her right to say that, but she doesnt do any of what a real woman should do, and she has no logical or other reason not to do so.

If there was a reason, I get it.

No goose and gander, thats fine, thats this sort of woman for you.

But we’re talking criticism – logical and constructive … so it begets me bringing it up … (as another example).

I still remember Marc the African Silverback Gorilla telling me in 2018.

“They need an alpha male there!” (which he was referring to me – and him as).

They need a padded cell is what I think. Hehe.

This alpha does NOT want to deal with any of them.

Hell, I even asked Gorilla Girl about this, about how her daughter, older than mine, doesnt have a phone, she gave me the same answer as I gave you …

Fitness wise, this applies too.

Way too many people are thin skinned.

They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

And look, if you’re fat, you’re fat, I wont hesitate to point that out – but I also wont hesitate in HELPING – in case you’re open enough to being helped, if not, well, go your own way and be fat is what I’d say. Hehe.

Am I saying I’m perfect ?

Hell nawl …

But I’ve been very open about my imperfections – and working on the weak links in my chain, and bottom line – when someone with a genuine interest in my health called me out for “looking unfit” the past year (and admittedly I wasn’t fat, but I wasn’t up to my “high standards” either as I was now) – that was the best damned birthday present I could have ever gotten, John, I keep telling him!

That was earlier on this year.

And the results since then speak for themselves.

Thats what counts, results.

I mean, end of the day, if what you’re doing is working, it’ll show.

If not, the blubbery gelatanious “whales would be proud” mass around your waistline and man tits will show too …

I mean, back when I was fat, everyone – family included – found a reason to call me out on it (though they’d never notice the fact that I could do pull-ups even with that weight (admittedly a lot was muscle, but a lot was phat too!) – and thats FINE.

Now when I’m a fitness machine “I’m too thin” or “I dont eat anything at all!!!!!!!!!!”

Or other nonsensical stuff about “dont lift so heavy!”

People act like idiots, really. And this isn’t just me, look at any fitness icon, ask them about their journey, they’ll tell you the same damned thing about comments from idiots.

And last, but not least – criticism?

I dont walk down the road looking for reasons to criticize people.

This is something I keep telling my daughter, she hasn’t learned it as yet …

I mean, if I walk down the road and see an obese person that is proudly flaunting it with their neo liberal “it’s my body type” crap – I think to myself “yet another fool”.

But I dont walk up to them and tell them that, now if they ASK me, I’ll tell ’em!!

And if they get pissed off about it, thats their choice.

With my daughter, she’s young, she sometimes has a habit of pointing out other people’s flaws and saying “I’m better”.

I keep telling her, to hell with their flaws.

Focus on YOURSELF, making YOURSELF better, strengthening the weak links in your chain.

It’s what I do every workout.

Getting better in some way.

Workouts, life, all of it …

Anyway, birthday wise – one of my friends has a birthday today, so I best go Whatsapp him before I forget, hehe. He’s the lawyer that handled both court cases in 2008 and 2009.

When we meet, which is rarely, he proudly still tells others, “I got two police vans to show up right then!”

And he did, hehe.

The High Court speaketh …

Anyway, bottom line – to get in the best shape of your life – get the 0 Excuses Fitness System NOW – and start implementing. Way too many of you are being lazy and not doing – and some of you haven’t even bought this great product as yet, I dont know what you’re waiting for? The moons will never align in case you didnt know, hehe.

And last, but not least, criticize – but always find a way to do so in a manner that makes – or tells – the other person how to IMPROVE.

I dont mean whining and pandering here.

I mean, tell them how to improve, and then watch what they do.

If they implement, they’re a doer, if not, they’re fools, let ’em go … (same philosophy I apply business wise on a daily basis too).

And thats that.

Best,

Rahul  Mookerjee

PS – For those of you “stuck” fitness wise, or otherwise … (this applies to handstand pushups, pull-ups, a lot of tougher exercises – muscle up, iron cross, you name it..)

Fail – first attempt at learning

No – Next opportunity! 

And so on and so forth. Hehe. I got that from my daughter, but thats a sage something to pass on too, for those that will listen ..

And it’s true, success at anything to me isn’t so much measured by the final result as it it is the number of times you’ve failed, gotten up again, gotten smacked back down again, then failed again …

More on this in Gumption Galore…

In one of the great, legendary groups I administer on wechat, Dongguan Networking – an idiot once broke the rule, like a bigger idiot I let him come back.

Like clockwork, as I say sureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee enough he did it again.

He was very unceremoniously BOOTED!

He had to whine, of course.

“You’re an odd dude”, he whined, while giving his explanation (or excuse) for breaking the rules despite being warned once already – and despite me loosening my very normally strict “one strike and you’re out FOREVER” policy (that is applicable to the Ship too, btw).

I dont BROOK excuses, no pun intended, I never have, never will.

I just do it.

Same way , same thing here, anyway.

One of the keys to getting more reps I’ve written about in Jump Rope Mania, it’s a key not mentioned in any other book  including 0 Excuses Fitness, only because perhaps it works best in terms of jumping rope, but it works for pushups equally well too.

And, any other exercise you so choose to APPLY it to.

The second?

Oddly … enough, hehe.

It’s simple, and it is this – dont think about rep count at all. Just “do”.

Sure, have goals all you want of doing 500 pushups a workout, 100 squats, or whatever.

But for me, what has worked best, and for a lot of you I suspect too, what I keep recommending about life – live in the flow, and DO, without thinking too much or overanalyzing.

Some of the best workouts I’ve had – I still remember them from years ago.

And they all came in this mode and mood, just flowing in the flow.

You’ll know when you’re truly in the flow, when nothing can really destroy, interrupt you- or what not. You will feel it.

I just had to do 50 pushups before writing this to you, so I told myself I would.

Presto, I stopped at 40 despite visions of me doing 50, and very strong ones at that.

Why?

I dont know.

Just how it is.

Same thing with my meditation this morning.

But, squat wise? I thought I’d just do 10 to 20 “for now”, I ended up with 150 already …

Nothing to do with the release of Squat 101 either, which is already making waves, someone wrote back (and he just flipped through the ebook, that is all, hasn’t even fully read it” saying “simply novel and superb” …

But thats how it’s worked.

Often times when shooting for personal bests, and putting emphasis on that, I fall short (but dont fail, mark you and mind you).

There’s a difference.

But when not worrying bout rep counts so much is when I’ve always surpassed my personal bests.

And second tip well, its covered in Jump Rope Mania, but hint, think in multiples of two.

So 100 becomes 50 x 2 – and no, I’m not giving anything else away either.

Some of you will figure it out, some wont, but either way, if you’re a doer, get the books above.

And thats that!

Best

Rahul Mookerjee

Admittedly I was in the middle of a workout, and a particularly bodacious cleaning lady is at at – showing those lovely hips and “upper regions” of hers in … the wife’s sari apparently.

Apparently the wife decided to give away all her old stuff because the gurus said “give old, receive new”.

In theory thats a good thing, in practice, it only works when accompanied by the right thinking.

Simply giving because “you’re in a bad mood” and you want to feel better and “attract good” while consciously focusing on harm to those that help you and have helped you in the past – well, thats just spiraling down the negative spiral my wife loves to live in – and Nazi feminists in general (or those that buy into that ideology).

Anyway.

Even the maid was reluctant to take them, though many are brand new.

And today, as the maid shows up wearing a sari my wife once proudly wore as “Rahul Mookerjee’s wife” – well, I gotta admit, a customer was more right than he knew – or knows when he termed her as my “ex”.

in many ways we both are each other’s ex’s.

And thats great!

Anyway.

This isn’t a piece about how the sari flatters even the most unflattering of “fat” women in India (and there are tons, believe me) or how it shows curves, or how sexy it is, or the lack thereof or so forth – personally for me nothing beats shorts, but some girls disagree, while not. Hehe.

Anyway ….

While researching club training, I came upon an unique book “gifted” to me by someone that I wont name here, but written by a foreigner that actually visited India, lived and TRAINED HERE. Unlike a certain Charles who keeps saying “I’d love to visit” but whose ex will never let him, and neither does he have any intention of visiting, he did – didnt just do it, but lived here, breathed here, got the Delhi Belly, hehe – and TRAINED – with Indian wrestlers!

The Flying Dutchman is another one of his kind, but this dude – I love his book!

I wont name it here

But while he did a stellar job, I thought he could have done a better job of explaining the club movements – some were too basic, but again, credit to dude, he probably didnt even, like a certain “Shantaram” know the language before he showed up, but he DID!

And thats that counts.

He looks like he does too. Hehe.

Shoot me an email if you’re interested in the book but two things –

One, Lumberjack “Lodestone” Fitness will be FAR more exhaustive, we’re nearing almost 50 of the BASIC swings in terms of clubs, and the book has info on kettlebell training, clubs, MACES, sledgehammer training, tyre flips, and a hell of a lot more you aint even thought of.

(as opposed to the few basic swings you see from people teaching this. Again though – hey. CREDIT WHERE IT’s DUE! Dude did, came to a foreign land with no “pre concieved notions about ugly and dark people” unlike a lot of Chinese, didnt bitch about the admittedly true “dirty” nature of the place and so forth – SO CREDIT! Hats off!)

But anyway, in his book he talks about an unique way of training … well, not the muscles you’d normally train. Hehe.

He aint referring to the big head either, and the muscle in it, the most powerful by far.

(and the most results producing in ALL areas).

He’s literally referring to Indian sadhus, and from what I gather, himself too to a degree, training his “lingam”.

Now, this means “penis shaped” literally.

And in Indian culture, you’ll see the lingam in many shapes, forms and guises, and it’s even worshipped if you talk about the “Shiv ling” which is a lingam shaped abode or something for the lord Shiva…

Lots of tales there, I’m not familiar with them, but the lingam shows up in ancient cultures everywhere, including places you might not think – like Scotland, for one.

The Chinese have their own version of it, aped and copied from India though they’ll never admit it.

It all started in India, friend, the Kamasutra is but one proof of that – pity the wheel came full circle!

Anyway.

Thats a method of training where you literally hang – gather yourself – weights off your dong, schlong, penis, cock, JUNK- whatever you call it.

Quite literally.

I had to gasp when I read that, because bodyweight exercise Guru though I might be, I aint NEVER going THERE.

Hehe.

Sadhus in India apparently do.

No way, JOse, for me, I prefer my junk dangling as it is, where it is.

Now, point of me saying this isnt to talk about sex, and how this sort of training apparently “redirects the heat from the loins to the rest of the body to turbocharge your workouts even more”.

That part is likely true too, but I’m NOT an expert at that, and neither would I claim to be.

What I am an expert at is telling you this.

Pang Ren, Qiu Dian.

That means, if you translated from Chinese to English – FAT man have small penis.

And if you think about it, it’s true, isnt it?

Figuratively, because even if its big, you cant barely see it, as Rueben once told me about his beer belly “at least I can still see my DICK when I look down in the shower”.

LOL.

Ole boy was spot on!

And literally too, if you think about it.

Fat for both men and women accumulates around the lower abs, one of the supposedly hardest to lose areas.

And therefore less blood flow to a muscle -down there.

For men, that means decreased libido, performance in bed etc – and unsatisfied partners though most will never admit to it.

Look, being in shape goes beyond the mere physical my friend, so does sex …

But anyway, point being this.

You can train the groin muscles, lower lower – yes, you read right – abs – and the core in an unique manner with clubs you cannot if you do it right.

And the way is this – you bring it DOWN on each rep … for men, this means until your JUNK.

For Schofield’s that means until your non existent junk, but puns aside, this needs to be done under control – and NOT taken to extremes.

And even if you can’t get it that far down and keep gong – going – hehe – do what you CAN, my friend.

Trust me, as we put together hardcovers for Corrugated Core (and a few other books – btw, the Ship will soon have options for both paperbacks and hardcovers – – stay TUNED!) – there is more than one way to skin a beast.

And if you truly want to turn into a beast with Indian club training, well, you learn from the Master at it, and do what he says …

Anyway, takeaway from all this – two.

One, the opposite of pan ren qiu dian is VERIFIABLY true.

TMI maybe, but I’ve been on both sides of the spectrum, and I can damn sure attest to the truth of it, though it’s nowhere near as spectacular in terms of different, but it’s there.

Performance, MY!

And two, I wouldn’t be – again – recommending you go hang weights off “it”.

IF you do, disclaimer – I aint responsible, much like I’m not responsible for Glyn shoving bleach up his ass to kill the Coronavirus or some nonsense, then ending up in the emergency room (after he read my report on Trump making an offhand comment about “bleach killing most germs” -thats all he said, btw!).

And thats that.

Back soon!

Best

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Squat 101 is finally LIVE, and for sale, in case you did NOT KNOW ! Get it NOW.

PS #2 – Get your pre-order in at the current price for Lumberjack Lodestone Fitness while you can – the price will go UP, up, and UP on this one and then some, so hurry – strike while the iron is HOT.

PPS – And last, but not least – – if you really want to improve performance overall, but specifically in bed, then get good, DAMNED good at Animal Kingdom Workouts. 

(no lingam training in it either, at least not hanging off tree branches by your “long and short”, hehe or rest).

Thats that! (and as the SMS you just got told you, this is SERIOUS. For some reason, people tend to associate the ancient and mystical with either China or India and sell/market to the “hordes” based upon that.

I could just as easily post my redneck “cowboy” ass with long hair and a beard and flowing robes and sell to the hordes too with some of the nonsense the idiots “so called gurus” do.

But I wont, I dont, I never will, because that ain’t me, because I keep it real and BRUTAL, and workouts are what you will get from this site, brutal ones yes, but not “illogical” ones if you get my drift.

And thats that).  (and no jokes about “doing the maid either” hehe please).

(though you wouldn’t be that far off if you DID make the joke, albeit in another time and era, heh).

The tagline for my new book, long in the works “Squat 101” is this –

If you ain’t squatting, you aint training.

And it’s TRUE, my friend.

This is going to be a short email, but suffice it to say EVERY serious trainee, anyone that is even remotely interested (or claim to be) in old school physical training/physical culture – well, you MUST grab your copy of this book now.

Whats more, the “pre-order” price it was being offered at – I’ve decided to let it go and let the pre-order price continue for a while longer – however, this will NOT last forever.

Grab your copy NOW, and enter the halls of the LEGENDS – or get on the path to doing so – by starting to TRAIN like one.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

This morning, perhaps, or a while ago – I received a lengthy rant from a Bozo whose main talking points seem to be “film a full workout video so I can follow along for FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” (he left the free part out, of course, hehe as he always does) – and something about “insults”, and something about doing Animal Kingdom Workouts.  (which he does to reassure himself he’s “strong” despite not being able to do a single pull-up).

(I wouldn’t even have noticed his rant, it goes straight to junk as most do these days (the spam) – the system was right in marking his stuff as spam initially – hehe. He used to be an affiliate here, it put his application in “junk”  – I manually reviewed, let him in, as always happens in these cases, I was proven WRONG)

(he then mentioned me on Youtube or something, so I saw him in the numerous “notifications” popping up. It even crashed my so called 4G “plus” for one, hehe).

Dude’s literally obsessed, like Schofield (of course, with the latter, his stuff goes to TRASH directly without even seeing the light of day of “junk”) …

This guy, well, I’ve written about him before, but after receiving that lengthy rant of his I checked out some of his other rants, usual boring “eye watering” as usual, so I never read what he says, but he makes a good point every now and then.

Such as something he claimed about “exercise not necessarily conditioning you for sparring” – although given the very lengthy and ever growing list of people that disagree with his rubbish – given he’s in no condition to do much sparring anyway … but that part was right, brought back memories.

Remember, Marc the African Silverback Gorilla telling me “oh YES, you’d last – conditioning wise!” (when I told him I wouldn’t last  30 seconds against him. Hehe).

Well, I lasted yes, but that was a solid workout, sparring PROPRELY in proper FORM again, he really put me through my paces in terms of defence (and so it should be, you dont dish it out unless you can take it first) … and I damn sure felt it, though I “lasted”, yes.

Exercises do condition if you do em right.

But nothing replaces doing the thing.

That goes for pull-ups, wanking, having sex, and exercise in general, and life in general. (which dude doesnt look like he’s ever done).

At the risk of repeating myself, what I dont get about this idiots is the “obsession” they have with me – they can’t stay away despite whining about being repeatedly insulted.

Like dude, if you’d spend more time focusing on what you do and not whining about me, and obsessing over me – and your own lack of results, and if you’d stop thinking about the “magic pill for sales so I dont need to depend on the wife” and focus on PROCESS, then you’d probably do better or get on the road at least, but that would require long term focus and vision …

(some solid advice there for everyone, a certain Jeff Bezos swears by it as well!)

Anyway – the lengths some people go to cover up “what is”.

Dont get me wrong, animal workouts are SUPERB!

And you SHOULD be doing them, yet, nothing replaces proper pushups and especially pull-ups.

If you aren’t strong enough to get your chin over the bar, keep it there at the very least for a few seconds, and do it repeatedly, you ain’t strong.

Just ask the Marines, the Army, the Seals … the Spetsnaz, the Shin Bet – ask them about the one exercise they pride themselves on the most and why.

And you’ll have your answer!

Anyway, fool, those “shorts” that seem to have already garnered thousands of views in some cases (I never thought they would!) which he claims  are “OK” but too “short” – look, idiot, thats what Youtube meant it to be.

Since he keeps whining about being insulting, well, the terms “fool” and idiot, I got those from a certain Gorilla Girl, who calls me that every time I ask her to flash her jugs.

I cant help it, she’s got nice ‘uns!

Then she blocks me – in precisely two days, she’s adding me again saying “I just want to say hi!”

Hehe. Women, gotta love ’em from a certain standpoint.

Back to it –

I can’t help it if “shorts” are a minute long. Hehe.

Full workouts are there in the videos section – SOME of the videos.

I do it on the fly, on the spur of the moment, these videos weren’t even meant to be there, combo of the fact that we are ALMOST done with Squat 101 – will be released by next week – pics all done, I just have a few workouts to put in there and then we’re … LIVE!  – that, and taking the daughter to the park since the weather has improved ..

(and I love filming myself in dark rooms and with sunglasses on outside, hehe. Gorilla Girl seems to love it too, so why not? Heh)

Anyway … short? No pun intended, but look – while his rant gave me ideas, I’d sure like to go further with the jump squats we did as a short yesterday because it’s hard to show in pictures – – and while I’d sure like to film myself doing a 100 pushups and 100 jump squats, I sure as heck wont because some freebie seeking wacko wants me to.

Last, but not least, dude – for YOU?

You cant do one single pull-up in proper form i.e. get your chin above the bar, so you “evade this” by doing hammer grip pull-ups on apparatus where it’s hard to see if your chin is actually going anywhere NEAR the bar at all … (not to mention the hammer grip, which is usually far easier for lazy asses, though still a solid workout).

And so for you some of those shorts – WILL be a workout.

Man up, get to the point you can at least do ONE good pull-up.

For you, doing one good pull-up will likely make you feel it ways and areas you haven’t for years, my friend, let alone repeat for reps.

Getting to the point will require you – I’m sorry, but if you’re fat, you’re fat, and that excess flabbage around the midsection – pull-ups are the #1 exercise which expose it brutally like no other.

Again – baby steps, my friend – GET to the point you can do ONE good pull-up – then maybe 3 at one go …

Then let’s talk about it …

And that applies to everyone in general, not just him.

And for the nth time anyway again (this has turned into a way lengthier rant than I thought it would be, interrupted several times and so forth) ..

We’ll see what we’ll film today. Or IF at all….

But Squat 101 will be out next week, that I do promise.

I also promise this – the price will go UP on it, so if you’re interested in getting your MITTS on this great course, even more “brutal” in many ways than a lot of my others, then pre-order NOW at the current price while you CAN.

Back – at – it!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

It’s so cute, it truly is a privelege watching my daughter grow up every day!

From making me “wait” so she can find the way back home herself (though I’m always watching – she’s at that in between age where one REALLY has to be careful) – to telling me …

“Dad, you need more advertising in the videos!”

“Put WWW in front of 0 excuses fitness.com”, she thunders when I dont.

Hehe.

She is probably right.

Looking at the gimmicky crappy videos choc a bloc full of ads most produce, hey, the masses love it – they love to “click through”.

Yours truly doesnt cater to the masses though.

I was discussing how I could keep my prices low, and make “far more sales” by doing so, but that like I told Charles Mitchell who literally “exhorted” (so he should!!) me not to “it aint you!” – “never become a pussy trainer so you can sell more books!” …

… I would never do it, same thing with my videos.

And all my marketing.

The thing about making things easier to sell more books, my thoughts are, that if all you cared about was selling as many books as possible all you would need to do is to cut your prices but then you’d be just like everyone else out there, just churning out information to the masses that you know 99.9% would not even read let alone actually put the information to use, no my friend, there is no need to pander to the weak minded spineless masses, save your knowledge for those who have the wisdom to appreciate what you have to offer.

And thats that – John, spot on as always my brother!

Thats why the prices around here will NEVER go down.

I offer a version of art which is comparable to Da Vinci in it’s own way …

And if someone is too cheap to appreciate it, I dont want them hanging around.

End of the day, for me, it’s never about money – or becoming a millionaire – or dying in poverty as some artists (Da Vinci, I believe) literally did.

Nothing at all wrong with making money – but I’m huge on the old fashioned “service first”, “and keeping it real” and the money – will follow.

And it always does, it always has.

I couldn’t live with myself if I pumped out more books and products “just to make a sale”.

I couldn’t live with myself I put ads willy nilly in videos, they piss me off no end when I see a video like that anyway.

Anyway.

Updates from here – we got the pictures taken from Squat 101.

We also did a lot of cool videos, you’ll want to check out our channel! Some of the kiddie shorts are getting a TON of views already – you know me, if I get my chops into something, then I’ll do it WELL or not at all.

And thats that.

Oh, that STONE flip we were doing the other day?

Well, I flipped it up hill a couple of times today as you can see – –

Next one will go all the way up to the hill. Damn, I can feel it, that sucka be at least 60 kgs or so, hard to grip, true “Ironman style” even if I say so myself!

We did find a tyre as well, but it was too easy – shorts on the channel, so I’ll stick with the heavy ass stone. Hehe.

All for now!

If you haven’t already, get your pre-order in NOW for Lumberjack “Lodestone” Fitness.

And I’ll be back!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

Other than all the benefits I keep writing about, something I keep coming back to – yes, I’ve mentioned it before – but first –

Today?

Woke up, did 50 squats to get the soreness out (and prepare for 200 more later, perhaps more).

Headed over to the chinning bar to pop 5 off to warm up, slow and easy, nice and perfect form, but man, I was SORE.

Them triceps didnt want to move!

And so, I did ONE.

Then I went back to my room. Or study, depending upon … my man cave, I like to call it.

And I picked up my clubs – or ONE club, the 20 kg club I use for my training.

And I did swings with it for both hands.

I knew what would happen.

Within 100 swings done non stop (easy peasy for me, but most people will need months to work up to it with this sort of weight) – I was FEELING it.

The blood was flowing back to the upper back!

The arms felt loose, agile – again!

And I rushed to the pull-up bar, before I knew it – I was done with 10, more to come.

Now, point of me mentioning this isn’t to give you a rundown of my training or routine or even to poke my nose in your training – first thing you know, it aint my business how you train, thats your business, but it IS my business to give you ADVICE.

Advice that will help you.

I’m telling you this right NOW – even if you aren’t interested in clubs for all the other amazing benefits they offer, the sheer RECUPERATIVE benefits are a damned good reason you need to have A pair of Indian clubs sitting around in your room – training dungeon, whatever it is – or at the very least, at lease ONE!

It can be light. Most, like I’ve said before, will find working with 3 to 5 kgs challenging when they start.

(dont listen to me – at your own peril)

(dont complain about banged up jaws and teeth falling out though, hehe)

But just – even if you’re into lifting weights (heavy iron) and doing bodyweight exercises on alternate days (which is perfectly fine if you’re into that) – as I told John, an old timer around here and regular customer, 0 Excuses “faithful” as it were…

(us old timers stick TOGETHER)

.. even if you’re into doing hard bodyweight daily as I am, even if you are “too sore to do pull-ups” after a fantastic workout on them the day before (note – do it DAILY. Hit it HARD – daily. Yes, I realize you need rest and all that crap, but for real results, fact is this – you bust your butt – DAILY!) …

(and no, you wont break down either if you do it right).

There is no better tool to dissipate soreness in the upper body I’ve found than a brief club swinging workout – which of course you can take to “insane levels” like I do and make them a workout unto themselves.

You can go light, you can go heavy, but swinging clubs should be done DAILY, my friend, NO, although maces are superlative as well, you cannot get the same training effect from maces as you do clubs due to the way the clubs are shaped.

And that is that.

I’ll have more on this in the future, but that is the advice for now, my friend.

Take it or leave, up to you.

Place the pre-order for Lumberjack Lodestone Fitness if you’re truly into real man fitness – NOW.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Although I’m not huge on exercise “tools – a jump rope and a basic ab wheel – well – you’ll do great without them, but it wouldn’t hurt to have ’em!

Ab wheel features in Lumberjack Lodestone Fitness.

The jump rope does in Jump Rope Mania (another one of those “forgotten beauties” around here).

Do we ever forget them beauties? ????

They sure dont forget US … Hehe.

PS – I plan on getting some pictures for Squat 101 taken today, let’s see how that pans out. HA!

One of the most brutal (yet most basic, like I said, basic works best) grip combos mentioned in Gorilla Grip (Advanced) – and probably a host of my other books is this.

Fingertip pushups and pull-ups – regular version of both.

If you can do 25 of the former in one set, proper form, and do 25 of the latter in however many sets it takes, preferably 5, and repeat this 5 times – well, your forearms will feel like they’re falling off regardless of your current fitness level.

It’s brutal, it’s simple, its just PART of some of the workouts I give you in Battletank Shoulders – and “Pull-ups from STUD to super STUD within WEEKS!”.

Can you hear my keys fall out? Hehe… Us real men dont lose keys too often, but it’s happened once to me, NOT that time though. HEhe. Carol will tell you more! 

Now, I’ve mentioned another brutal grip exercise in Shoulders like Boulders! without explicitly classifying it as such.

But it’s there, it has it’s own paragraph devoted to it (header too).

Its called “walkouts from the wall”.

You basically stay in a handstand, and walk out from the wall, then back to start position.

Again, basic as heck, yet brutal as heck, if this is all you did upper body wise all day long, your shoulders would pop like never before, so would you chest and upper body (though Id recommend you do more than just this obviously). (and you will gravitate to “more” naturally if you do this, trust me!!).

A variant of this I just mixed in with my 100 pushup, 200 club (20 kg, both hands and one hand) – and 50 pull-up workout?

Well, WALKING the bar.

This is basically the same as walking the floor pushups which aren’t quite as brutal as they sound like, so I’ve NOT mentioned them in Pushup Central.

The movement though if modified a little is even more brutal than a pushup movement – see the Alligator Walk in the world beating, PATHBREAKING book “if you want to join the ranks of the SUPERHUMANS THEN GET THIS BOOK NOW!” Animal Kingdom Workouts. 

But the pull-up version, along with all I’ve mentioned above – well, you walk the chinning bar with your hands.

Simple, eh?

But, DO IT -for reps – on thick bars if you can!

Mix in thick gripz and your forearms will literally be singing “Glory be to the queen”

Jyoti, I dont know why that came to mind either!

But anyway – mix those type of pull-ups i.e. you walk the bar, do pull-ups if you can – then do this again with all else I’ve said above.

And write back – if your forearms so allow you!

Gorilla Grip and Gorilla Grip Advanced! – not to mention Gorilla Grip (TIPS!) – there is NOTHING better than these manuals out there grip training wise, and I’m just getting started, my friend.

Get ’em NOW.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee