One of them is something those of you on the list should guess right.

Yup, you got it – that trusty ole chinning bar!

From the time I welded a huge rusty iron pipe to the hallway in my apartment in china (landlady never knew – thank Goodness, hehe) – to taking it down and putting up a regular chinning bar in the bedroom doorway (landlord DID give the OK for that, I doubt he would have for the other one – yall know the story on that!) – well, I’ve never quite been without a chinning bar at home.

Even when I was a bonfaide phat phock x 10 – even in the Middle East, where at certain points I really blew up – I’d get me a chinning bar and use it at home (despite people telling me to lose weight FIRST).

Hehe.

It’s always been there for me, along with my squats, favorite exercise by far – although pushups are a close second!

Now, I’ve said before you dont NEED pull-ups to get in super shape – but it’s a natural movement you’d be an idiot not to get damn good at – along with monkey bar work (more on that in Gorilla Grip, another hidden key to MASSIVE and quick gains in upper body and especially GRIP strength, nothing quite works the forearms like it for one, traps too).

(especially if you do them with added weights, two at a time like I do etc).

(btw, for more great tips on building that rock solid, CAST IRON, “kung fu like” UNSHAKEABLE grip, check out an oft ignored book – Gorilla Grip I(TIPS!))

Anyway – what is the second?

You  might NOT be able to guess that one!

I’ve gone on record saying you dont need fancy equipment to get in shape, but there’s lots of useful tools, clubs, grippers, a lot of great stuff out there – and a highly underrated “ab roller” I’ve written about before, and not as much as I should – primarily because I dont use it a lot (I dont need to!).

Anyway #2?

Them damn thick grips I use on the chinning bar.

I think they’re around 4 inches thick if I’ve got it right, now you’d think for a guy who does pull-ups all the time outside on thick iron bars – this wouldn’t be a big deal – but you’d be wrong in a way.

Its great to do ’em that way, you should.

But thick grips – you can really SQUEEZE these suckers like you cannot an iron bar …

More to the point though – if you’re like me, and if you’re doing pull-ups throughout the day – which I do often if I dont do them outside all at once (another key to getting better at pull-ups) … then it’s a hell of a lot different banging out 10 perfect pull-ups every time you pass by the chinning bar and doing them WITHOUT the grips.

Trust me, when I first got these grips, they were a challenge for me.

Trust me on this one,  yes, even for me.

OF course, I didnt half ass form.

And I found that its not just grip you tax more, when you really squeeze, you force yourself to focus on FORM – and lats even more – your entire upper body is tensed that much more, you build that much more muscle, burn that much fat – and serious grip work taxes the brain like nothing else as well.

You might find that strange to believe but our hands have the max number of pressure points/connections to the ole “big head” – or whatever you choose to call it, or the lack thereof for many people these days!

And training the grip hard – you train the whole body, the brain as well.

Same thing for squats, when you really grip with the toes like I tell you to in Squat 101, like I told you in these emails before, then you’re working the pressure points of the SOLE intensely – whether or not you believe in reflexology is NOT the point here.

Just do ’em that way – daily, and lot of ’em … and report back after 30 days on your overall health, well being, how you feel …

Well, my friend, had to write to you about that.

Maybe I’ll do some club work now – another massive T booster if done right, a lot of people dont …

But there it is – the two best investments in fitness I ever made, didnt cost a bomb, lasted like forever, and so forth …

Food for thought for YOU TOO, my friend.

And remember, if you do pull-ups, or anything do ’em right.

Squats – the 0 Excuses Fitness System has most of all you need to know, along with Squat 101, the upcoming book.

Pull-ups, well, here you go – and here.

And thats that, back soon.

Best

Rahul Mookerjee

Ps – Those on the fence, stop dilly dallying and get the damn books already, my friend. Time stops for NOBODY, it wont for your lazy butt either…

Do what you should have done yesterday NOW (if you have not already, really, if you cannot feel yourself RACING to order after you read all this, you aint got a pulse, hehe, thats really the bottom line, and I dont train people without a pulse. Hehe).

PS #2 – A lot of our great products are available in compilation format too – be sure and check ’em out.

Truth be told, I’m damn glad that time was there, and it was there.

I’m damn glad for the long run I got bullied at school, and no-one helped out – the opposite, actually.

I’m damn glad I wasn’t fit naturally, have genetics that are prone to the polar opposite despite the fitness machine I am NOW – and I’m glad I was never naturally strong.

And a host of other things.

And yes, that I was super PHAT at a certain point (but never a lazy phocker).

All of this has helped developed the never say die spirit in me, never giving up, going the whole humpty or not at all – the “brutally honest” character I have, the brutal and full fledged nature (and true) of my books, writing, and my workouts – and all else.

I would never have it any other way, I’d rather have it tough, learn how to fend for myself as opposed to the coddled BS today (even my Mom agrees there about the coddling and stupidity in school these days – where teachers are more interested in make up and phones, and end up throwing the entire term’s syllabus at the kids right before the exams, and do precisely F all the entire term – yes, true story! – and you know if Mom agrees with me, it’s true!).

Anyway, incident I’m referring to was in high school.

Eleventh or 12th grade perhaps.

Mayank Singh was his name, I believe. We took the bus home together. Hehe.

And we’d often get in each other faces.

His house is still near mine (the Indian house that is).

And one fine aftenoon we were fighting over something, grip or something, my friend kept saying ‘Mayank’ was fat, I was solid (I was sKINNY, lol) – and one thing led to the other, he gripped my forearm.

I tried all I could, I could barely budge my arm!

I gave him a piece of my mind.

He just looked at me and stared – “You could barely free your arm!”

And that, like another friend Rajinder once told me “Make yourself indestructible!”

IT’s the polar opposite fitness and grip wise these days, of course, most of my classmates are happily or not married, and ALL are so rotund – or most – you would never recognize them (if you knew them growing up).

But anyway, wasn’t all bad growing up for me, I did put the Gorilla Grip on a guy’s neck – left marks no less – in 8th grade.

Curiously enough that was the time when I went to Taekwondo class regularly, did NOT have a pot belly (you, if you’ve seen my skinny photos growing up, I weighed 60 kgs soaking wet perhaps in high school would not believe the pot belly part, but believe me, ninth grade onwards it was there – lack of exercise and too many Colas showed – to me at least! not to mention when the guys pinch gripped that phat around the waist, hehe – painful shit!) … and watched lots of WWE.

After I did that, I got a beating at home (for some reason as y’all know my parents wouldn’t look at what the other guy did , and their philosophy till this date is one of “keeping the peace”, not reacting physically – mine has always been, or wanted to be – pound him back x 10 – not just pound him back, pound x 100 really, so he doesnt dare to do it again – not so much permanently disable the fucker, but damn close, and I’m that way today as well and so it shall BE) … and WWE, well lets just say I watched it on the sly *them chokeslams, hehe*.

Taekwondo, well, that was stopped in ninth grade for some stupid reason “pressure of studies” or some crap, I dont even know, I still remember my instructor stopping one day in the middle of the road, asking me why I didnt come to class, smiling at me, I still remember him on his bike, good guy he was – not just because he praised my pushups even at that age!

Anyway – as I passed “Mayank’s” house today either in my head – or in real life, you decide – hehe – seems the same to me sometimes, it’s so vivid all of it, and spoke to a guy there who was tending to a lady – I ended up interrupting.

Lady didnt mind at all apparently, she was more than glad to chat it up with us.

Nice lady!

Maybe she had this feeling deep down inside that years ago, this dude was the skinny boy going with her rather “stronger” son to school – who knows, I dont know, she never saw me, but these things permeate!

Then, the joke I almost forgot to tell y’all about, I told my daughter, but she of course said it wasn’t funny, but it’s a bad joke, inside joke, but those are the funniest if you catch the drift (like when Rocky once asked Adrian “why cows wear bells” because the horns dont work, hehe)…

This Aussie fast bowler back in the day Adam Dale, this friend of mine (Mayank) would pronouce his name (last name) as “Dah-leigh” (as in “Dahmer”, “Ashleigh”) due to the Aussie accent he heard on TV (and then got confused with the Indian one too – hehe – back then India didnt have that much cable or exposure to down Under anyway) …

I told him the right way to pronounce it.

He said OK.

But from there on it became a running joke, “Dale Aa Gaya, Dale!”

(Dale is coming!)

(he did quite well against India did Dale sometimes!)

The way he pronounced it in Hindi was the way I said, except in Hindi that way it means “put” – which is how you say “bowled a ball” in hindi …

Given it was cricket, the joke stuck.

Not so much for my daughter TODAY. Hehe.

Anyway ……………..

Moral of the story – train your grip HARD – because your very life might depend upon it.

(not just that story – read the story of Sig Klein as well on Gorilla Grip (Advanced!)).

(and there are plenty more I could recount and tell ya)

Grip isn’t something you train at the end and forget about it, it isn’t a “by product” of your training all the time, in fact grip and core workouts are so damn important you need to dedicate entire workouts to them – and remember that YES, grip training is damn near as important as BREATHING.

Lots of people think that “size” is what matters forearm wise and otherwise.

Nope.

I’ve seen skinny guys with amazingly strong grips, and weak grips, I’ve seen phat phockers with even weaker grips, ditto for a lot of boobybuilders.

It matters what you DO – not how you look, although if you train the way I do – you’ll get a hell of a lot of constant compliments passed your way daily, that I guarantee, and we can’t argue with that can we. Hehe.

Anyway – to end –

The two books that will build a cast iron grip like no other –

Gorilla Grip, Gorilla Grip (Advanced).

Please, before you get them – read these two things –

One, get them in that order, no, you cannot just skip to advanced level first.

And two, the baseline BEFORE you get them should be 0 Excuses Fitness, else YOU, my friend are truly putting the cart before the goddamned horse…

And thats that.

Back soon.

Best

Rahul Mookerjee

First off … this dispatch here is for real men, not liberals, not wusses, not pansies that get easily offended, certainly not the best and brightest (not) of the lot i.e. Nazi feminists (but I love ’em, I make SO much $$ from some of them on auto pilot, hehe, without them even knowing which is the ultimate “kick”) …

If you fit into any of those categories, or if you’re just interested in fitness, please click away.

(actually, there is a bit about fitness. There always is).

But anyway, while searching for something to watch on Prime, I came across some movie I wouldn’t watch in a bazillion years, something about some “happily married and faithful girl” (aint they all, hehe) “loyal to her high school sweetheart” and other feel good crap – until she meets a brooding rebel who makes her re-examine her life, what she is doing with it, priorities, hidden feelings, DESIRES etc.

Now, I aint gonna watch it.

But I could tell you one damn thing – those movie makers may or may not have made a good movie (I dont know, I dont care) but the description dudes got it spot on.

I believe they call them “content writers”. Hehe.

Why do I say that – well, EXPERIENCE.

Sure, women all want money – so men know, think, and it’s true, but the bottom line – even with all the money in the world, EXCITEMENT is what they really crave – along with intelligence (hence the boot to the Bozo and so forth) (although Bozo doesnt quite like that sort of boot, hehe) – and something new, fun, conversation, making them think, TALKING – instead of alpha macho male crap ALL The time (though it works a lot of times) – and so forth, but again – back to excitement.

REBELLION.

A free spirit, someone not tied down by the mores of this world.

Someone THEY want to be. And so forth.

You might have heard two sayings.

“Women love bad boys”.

“Women are never satisfied”.

Both BE true. Hehe.

And yours truly, the experiences I’ve had with so many females, all so called happily married is but one form of proof here.

“But she would have married you if she loved you” whine the Nazi feminists.

Um, first off, honey, I didnt want to marry her. Neither did she. Women can be and usually are very cold blooded and transactional in nature (no, not always money either) than most think …

Or so called practical “having her cake and eating it too”.

Second – I’m hardly the perfect husband, and I go out of my way to advertise it.

Very proudly.

Not for me the stable job, the 9-5, the cuckolded lifestyle so many men love to live saying “its to keep the peace” and so forth.

(dont get me wrong, if thats you reading it – hey – to each his own, I really dont care, but I could not personally live like that, I never have, I never will).

And bad boys, the “danger” – the allure – all of it – women, my friend, are IRRESISTIBLY drawn to that sort.

That dont mean you can get away without brain, but if you have some, it makes your job SO much easier. Hehe.

Now, point of me telling you all this?

Isn’t to brag, no.

Isn’t to give you relationship advice, no.

It’s to tell you this.

What women really like physically, Nazi feminists included – and I’ve been very damned vocal about this, because it’s true is not the “big huge bulky muscles look”.

Fat guys convince themselves that “she likes big men”.

No she dont either, she’s merely getting by with one. Hehe.

Ask her if you dont believe me.

What women like the MOST, and what (curiously enough or maybe not every true bad boy I’ve known has this) is raw animal sexuality coupled with a FLAT stomach.

Yes, it’s not the wang doodle, or even the brain up there (though thats very important).

It’s the FLAT stomach, core strength, strong legs and muscular without it being too obvious back that women really like.

Strong arms.

Traps.

And no, a huge chest or bulging biceps is not necessarily a turn on, usually the opposite.

Dont believe me?

Ask any woman.

Ask her – or simply watch any real movie or “real” porno or what not (if there is such a thing) and see if you can figure out the part of the body women love the most, touch the most and…

And you shall see. Hehe.

Now, what does this have to do with you?

Well. simply this.

To turn into an irresistible force of nature, not just to women, but fitness wise – oddly enough the latter is what attracts the former – auto pilot, once you get the latter down you wont even consciously think of the former – a REAL brute – an ANIMAL – in every which way if you get my drift (arent we all such animals, females included, hehe) – well, you’ve got two options – both options actually need to be taken.

One, follow what I tell you in Animal Kingdom workouts, and you’ll see (enough said).

And two, get good at pull-ups, damn good …

This little course here teaches you how… And then THIS one.

And make sure to get your CORE work in – daily, everyday, multiple times a day, regularly. Please dont be a lazy ass and skip leg core and grip work – its not going to work, period.

And thats that.

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

Way too many idiots and morons think the bodyweight squat – or the Hindu squat or any of the variants I’m going to be teaching you in the NEVER seen before course on squat Squat 101 is “just a warmup”

Or, it doesnt build muscle.

Or, the real deal is weighted squat, and those should really be focused upon, while the others?

Blah.

“Just do it” to get them over with, and usually in a haphazard half hearted manner.

I’m here to tell all these sort of people that they’re grade A buffoons.

Not only are they choosing the path of most injury as opposed to least, but they’re also depriving themselves of the valuable tendon and ligament benefits you get from bodyweight work – not to mention strength, that can be used repeatedly without your legs giving out as opposed to 5 reps, or 20 reps while squatting a cow or what not.

Dont believe me, take the cow squatters, ask them to pump out 100 – hell, 50 ferocious squats, and we’ll see.

FEROCIOUS SQUATS.

Maybe I should rename the book that … Hehe. Or maybe I’ll leave it the way it is!

But really, my friend.

When you do these, remember too many people go through the motions and nothing else, do NOT be one of those people.

I was resting this afternoon, then I said to myself – lets do some squats, and let’s AMP THEM!

FEROCITY!

You really put all you got into them, you dont pause for long breaks either to catch wind, you … are a man – or a woman – on a MISSION basically.

The sort of mental strength this sort of workout builds is beyond comparison, you cannot get it from anything else, weights or not included, but why just believe me?

Take it from the old time strongmen, all of who had legs of pure steel.

Not all squatted an elephant, or even bothered, but they all, right from the Gama, to Bruce Lee, to modern day legends like Herschel Walker were DAMN good at the bodyweight squat, and did tons of reps daily, often throughout the day.

There is a reason to the so called madness, or a method, and a reason behind doing what they did.

REALLY put all you have into it.

FOCUS – I repeat – focus on breathing in and out with every repetition consciously, this will make the workout far tougher, and bring way more results than if you do it without focus on the breath.

You should REALLY feel the heart thumping after around 100 reps or so, if you can even get that far.

Ass to grass – on every rep. No excuses, pally.

And STRAIGHT back up, no bent knees on that one.

And there it is.

FEROCIOUS squats, and boy do they bring results and then some.

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Check out how to do Hindu squats, one of the best variants of the squat in the 0 Excuses Fitness System – NOW.

If I had to give you guys two books to buy – that even if you did not ever get 0 Excuses Fitness – would get you in super solid great shape – and keep you there for the rest of your life, it would be the following –

Gorilla Grip

Animal Kingdom Workouts

Yes, those two!

Now, not getting 0 Excuses Fitness before getting the former book, well, thats like putting the cart before the horse as some have said, so I do not – I repeat, NOT – recommend it, that is a baseline, that should ALWAYS be the FIRST purchase you make on this site.

The rest comes later.

But really, grip and bear like “super human” strength, flexibility, agility – another course I’d highly recommend all of you get – the compilation on isometrics, truly, this compilation is like nothing out there, nothing you’ve ever seen before, the results when in conjunction with the above two will STUN you, period, and  I really mean that.

Anyway …

I’m well known for the being the grip guy that easily opens the hard to open jars, cans, knots that never get untied, those annoying little things that require finger strength to open and so forth.

This morning I gave an old oak door – solid oak, wooden, it gets stuck all the time a mighty heave ho like a bear was hammering on it – once.

It’s a door NO-one can open.

The wife tries, the workers try, everyone tries, but the handle is one of those old fashioned ones which gets stuck in the wood, never opens with grip alone.

But you need grip to BUDGE That damn thing – so I hammered it once as if I were a grizzly rising up in anger …

… the impact shook the house. Hehe.

Nothing new for me, of course!

But anyway,  in a minute, the damn door opened.

Now, I could go on and on about the LOOKS part of this – how people keep commenting on me “losing weight so rapidly” (even AFTER I lost weight) – about staying in shape – about “you’re too slim! Dont lift that, you’ll hurt your back!” (then gape when I do so with ease), and all this .. but really, what I want to write to you about?

10, or a few benefits of that type of training and the strength and conditioning it builds in no particular order –

One, tremendous vascularity throughout the forearms – all of y’all want this, right?

Get your fat ratio levels down FIRST though, and you can do this with the exercises in the books above.

Trust me, that feeling of vascular forearms…. well, I dont need to mention it to you guys, do I now? Hehe.

Two, strength like I’ve mentioned above – comes in very handy around the house – the gym – wrestling ring – and overall, when you know you have the strength to just bear hammer someone into submission, well, in a fight a lot of other things stop mattering.

Not saying technique etc aint important, it is, but brute strength tells after a while as well.

Three – the way you FEEL.

Animal like, ALIVE, just full of vigor and vitality.

Four, train like the bear – or tiger – enough times – and you’ll stop worrying about your core.

Five, along with pull-ups and fingertip pushups, there is NOT ONE better movement you can do than the bear crawl, do it, and you’ll see for yourself!

Six – this sort of grip comes in damn handy in sports – I know that plays into the above, but still, shaking hands, tennis, wrestling, boxing, it warrants another mention.

Seven, your pull-up ability will shoot through the roof if you train grip right, a HUGE portion of not getting good at pull-ups is weak grip, even if you’re using the machines at the gym that isolate the lats – big mistake – and think you can deadlift a ton, you might be surprised when you do high rep pull-ups, or even weighted pull-ups.

Eight, playing into seven, training grip (and isometrics) trains ALL the weak links in the body without even thinking about it, nine, training grip right develops upper body tendon strength in a way nothing and no other exercise can.

And ten, animal like workouts simply BLAST away fat better than ANY other workouts you’ll do, period.

Dont believe me, get on the floor and do a simple duck waddle for like 20 seconds, rest for four seconds, do this four more times.

You’ll see!

It’s truly workouts that ignite your fat burners from the inside out, pally.

And mine deliver on that front better than ANY OTHER OUT THERE.

Get you some – NOW.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

I dont know if you can see the subtitle here, I believe yes, but yeah – as if I needed more reasons!

I dont, to be frank.

But theres one I haven’t spoken about – DIRECTLY.

That being, cuz, what is the POINT i.e. of sympathizing with whiners, “understanding their so called predicaments” which in most cases is karma, not much else, and so forth …

Lets talk about the current cost of living crisis everyone is whining about (at least in the West – in Asia and such its a given that the government will never help you anyway, so whats the point of whining people say – rightly say so – and no, I’m not advocating everyone turn into the Third world either – hang with me for a bit will ya).  . .

Look, there’s two ways of dealing with it, one is to say sorry up and down, “sympathize”, be as liberal “caring and understanding” or whatever other jazz you call it – the other?

Is to be realistic and practical.

Part of that involves, and I want to ask people on this list – those that whine up a storm about everything – this – a) have they ever run a biz themselves, and b) are they even aware that this isnt just affecting them, it’s affecting us ALL – business included??

Lots of people have this idiotic idea “he’s a businessman so he’s rich”.

Some have said in the past (NOT an idiotic things to say, hehe) that the one reason I’m not as rich as Jeff Bezos is my courses are certainly not tailored towards the masses wanting “easy stuff” and nothing more “hand holding and feel good crap” in other words that does precious little except the above, and in short, because I’m not a pussy trainer.

Charles was spot on there. Hehe.

But given what we’re discussing and people moaning about price on products etc, folks – remember – I’m not quite at Jeff Bezos level as yet, and not even close. Hehe. I may or may not get there, I will keep my thoughts to myself there, but point being what is “now”.

Lots of whiners forget that i.e. goose and gander, how the other person feels when all this is constantly thrown at him – I dont mind – but its illogical as hell, and point is this – it’s mens thoughts that create all this, simple.

I’ve been saying it for years, there is NO Escaping karmic justice, people think it’s all talk – but it ain’t either. It’s reality, you’re seeing it play out in front of you, and it aint even started.

Anyway – real point and real reason why I can’t even begin to understand this “feel good” lot?

Look, you can be sorry up and down till the cows arrive home, or pigs fly out of your ass.

Thats all well and goody, but does it FIX the issue?

I think not.

Other way is what I do, skip the BS formalities and just DO i.e. figure out and implement a SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM!

Lots of people dont like hearing that.

They like hearing this even less – your fitness is the same damn way.

Look, I dont care how “hard”it is for you right now in terms of fitness, if you’re a fat slob due to years of inactivity on your friend the deep couch, thats your fault – and your problem.

If you’re too much of a pussy to look in the mirror and admit you’re fat, or weak, or whatever the case might be – its on YOU, not me.

Lots of folks have it hard, some harder than others.

Whining about it solves zero.

DOING something solves the issue.

And that there is the point of this dispatch and all the businesses I run.

I focus on hard nosed solutions, not impractical feel good pissy BS.

And that ain’t for everyone.

But my stuff WORKS.

What would you rather have – the feel good BS – or something that cuts past it and offer a real practical solution?

I’ll leave the choice up to you.

But it’s an answer to the pseudo question posed in the title of the email, it’s also something for the whiners to ponder…

And thats that.

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Ive said it before, I’ll say it again, the REAL pandemic – is not the scamdemic or panicdemic from 2020 – it is how fat, entitled and LAZY people are getting in general, its just getting WORSE!

And the solution to your rapidly deteoriating fitness, my friend (for those where it’s applicable) is my premier flagship product – the 0 Excuses Fitness System. (and indeed all my other products).

Nothing fancy, no extranneous BS, just what WORKS, flat out WORKS.

And thats that.

I suspect it’s a “he” thats asking this question. And “he” did not ask me directly – I got this from some of the software I’ve installed on the site – the same software that tells me when people add products to cart, then never get them or “abandon” them – the same software that tracks your clicks etc (hence the “uncanny” way in which I figure out what you want, though a lot of that is gut feeling, honestly) – and so forth.

And it’s a great question!

One you could pose to any stalwart US Marine – those that pride themselves on doing pull-ups – from various positions as well, not necessarily the “exercise oriented” pull-up (though that is very useful and you should get damn good at it before trying any of the fancy stuff out!)

But like my buddy from the Marines and I discussed (Marines and Seals pride themselves on their pull-up ability) – those different types of pull-ups can well help you save your LIFE someday (and a customer on here told me much the same thing too, which of course is common sense, but he’s right anyway!).

I knew there was a reason I was thinking Bourne Sprints and Da Xing Xing workouts this morning. Hehe.

Anyway – you could probably ask a certain David Goggins as well, toughest SOB or one of them I’ve seen going around, passing the Seals test once is no joke, he’s done it twice apparently, got through Ranger school as well, again, no joke!

I think – it’s there on the “Pull-ups – from STUD to Super STUD within WEEKS!” page – he did 4000 something pull-ups consecutively (time frame mentioned too) – got into the Guinness book of world records too. Damn!

(deserves it).

I dont know Goggins personally obviously, but I’d bet you anything he trained a minimum of 100 pull-ups and 100 handstand pushups per workout, which for Goggins, much like me back in the day (well, not that long ago) was probably  just part of an otherwise even more intensive workout, with 100 being the point where he said “lets do 10 more” and DID.

Hehe.

But anyway – back to question.

The grip while doing pull-ups!

LOTS of people tell you to, and do CHIN-UPS – i.e. with palms towards you.

I’ve got nothing against this movement – great movement, but it’s NOT as natural a movement as the pull-up, my friend – where your fingers are pointing away from you.

To illustrate this – pick something up – or pull.

Do you naturally do it with fingers away – or towards you (no, I aint talking deadlift here).

Yeah.

I thought so.

Furthermore, and this is a secret even most advanced trainees ignore, it’s something I keep emphasizing in the books – USE THE THUMB!

SO many people claim “we’re strengthening lats in pull-ups”.

True, you are, but if your focus is simply on lats, you’re not doing it entirely correctly.

GRIP should be, and remains the FIRST point of focus, if you dont GRIP and literally squeeze that THICK bar like your life depends on it (I was visualizing just THIS this morning) – then my friend, you’ll never be able to set any sort of record at pull-ups no matter how hard you try.

And you simply cannot grip to your full ability without using the thumb.

You simply cannot develop the grip best without using THICK bars – or thick, fat gripz as I use.

(both extremely tough, but you’ll see – once you get used to them – normal pull-ups will be a breeze!)

Anyway, I’ve ALWAYS been a huge proponent of the supinated grip i.e pull-ups finger pointing away from you pull-ups …

The chin up does work the chest a lot more, but it’s an unnatural movement, and has caused elbow joint issues for me in the past, and I suspect a lot of others too.

And overall, the pull-up is much tougher, and nothing works the body like a regular pull-up does (probably why so many people weasel past it and try and avoid it like the plague. Hehe).

So in short …

To set world records?

Practice your ass off, and do so DAILY.

Make sure your pull-ups are part of a balanced upper – and OVERALL – body routine. Make sure your body fat is low, make sure your core is strong as ever! (these two things cannot be over emphasized, simply training pull-ups wont get you there, period).

Do not ignore pushups, especially fingertip pushups and extended arm pushups.

And do pull-ups on THICK bars whenever possible.

DO use the thumb.

And always use a supinated grip – its the best in terms of getting better at pull-ups, and eventually, if you so choose, setting world records at it!

Wow

I think I gave away a LOT of my secrets here, but thats OK.

There’s more, way more I have not covered here – and those interested, well, start by getting Pull-ups – from DUD to STUD within a matter of weeks NOW.

And thats that.

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Make sure to pick up the 0 Excuses Fitness System – in terms of an overall fitness routine, a solid baseline, this program has NO comparison, period.

From day one, ever since I saw this one lady from a distance at the bus stop while standing there to pick up my little girl, I knew she was “different” – from a certain angle.

And the first day I saw her, I believe she was in a dress of sorts, sort of like a nightdress except you could tell it wasn’t, it was one of those long flowing gowns ladies so love (hehe. I’m a fan of shorts both for myself and the ladies, but of course, it could be Gorilla Girl Sophia, or a certain “Princess” Joanie – they’ve all tortured me with the long dresses!) …

(I’ll leave the long dresses part out of this, hehe).

… and all I really made out in the distance was an Indian lady, and broad shoulders and somewhat powerful traps

The core wasn’t toned, I idly noticed, but certainly nowhere near the “rotund” status popular in the part of India I first saw her where men apparently walk around with beer guts hanging over their bellies and damn proud of it (though to be fair, the US South has cowboys who love doing that too, hehe, so who am I to say!).

But anyway, fitness levels all over the world – asinine for the most part, when people are slim they’re called “weak”, when they’re PHAT, the phat phockers who are even fatter claim they should lose weight and dont themselves. Insanity, madness.

Back to it.

I asked the wife idly that first day who she was, and wife giggled back at me.

I didnt get it.

“She’s a boxer!”

She didnt tell me to watch out. Hehe.

I added that part in.

But then I asked her more, she said she was a government employee, and barring a few other things, that was really all I thought of it (though I Admit, I’d love for her to hook me once, like a certain Angelina in 2019 who was learning boxing did – I asked her to practice on me – POW! Not quite as smooth as Marc, nowhere near, but like he did, she clocked me pretty good too, hehe).

Today, I saw this lady after a while.

“Long time no see!”

And she said yes, she had been transferred, I asked her her job, and then it hit me – I was thinking about some business related stuff I believe, then she told me she was an Indian government employee, a boxing coach, but what really struck me?

Madam’s trained Mary Kom, for a minute I couldn’t believe it, then I scanned the memory banks (the name, of course I knew it, but ..)

“Do you know Mary Kom”, the lady asked.

Not personally, obviously, I replied, then I scanned the ole elephant like memory.

She won something, I blurted out, and …

OK, Mary Kom – and then the lady  spoke about how she’s a world champ, won plenty of medals and so forth.

“I remember, pride of India from the North East”, I went.

And she is – in a country like India where the North dominates in damn near everything and is as male dominated as you can think, though the rest of the country is not, and the North East is almost China basically (no politics here, I’m NOT saying this in a bad way, I’m simply referring to lifestyle, freedoms, societal attitudes etc, hey, we all know this!) … to do something like she has in boxing, and remember, back in those times (Kom’s around 40ish, so is this lady, they started together)… thats an achievement and a half.

Tip of the hat to both you ladies!

Anyway, then she told me about “she’s a world champion”.

They dont have a “world” championship in boxing, I went.

Then it hit me.

“Ahhhh, amateur”.

But that dont take away from anything, my friend – anyway, y’all all heard about Mary Kom, I’m sure.

Whats more, this lady – who I knew only as “Hemlata” until now?

She’s even trained the lovely, gorgeous Priyanka Chopra for the biopic on Mary – Mary Kom it was.

“Have you seen it”, she asked.

Yeah, I went. “But I didnt like it!”

I didnt. It wasn’t realistic, though PC did a damn good job of trying.

She giggled.

And then I went on about how the boxing scenes weren’t realistic, and so forth …

But hey, lets be fair – the movies gotta SELL.

A lot of the boxing and related training in Rocky III, Rocky IV – utter tosh, anyone knowing anything about boxing knows this.

The start and end of the movie franchise which Stallone so wants back now are far more realistic in many ways – training included.

“You can’t learn boxing in six months”, she went. (referring to PC’s “skills” in the movie, she trained her).

“Well you can learn some footwork”, I went. “But ” …

… “You need 10,000 hours of practice to be good at anything. And boxing, man, its one of the toughest things along with wrestling that one can do!”

And it is – try fighting for a few rounds with proper form, defense (far more important sometimes than offense) – keeping thy shoulders up while doing so – it aint easy!

Anyway, lady’s been all over the world, but doesnt quite remember the cities.

Nah, no Rocky like blows to the head or anything. She just goes to train her pupils there and accompanies them to the competitions when the government sends her, but even so, this lady – in today’s day and age – kudos Madam, especially being from a conservative state like where she’s from with no training facilities for women at least back then, not sure about NOW.

She loves China, as is to be expected.

“Female dominated there”, I laughed.

Russia, she didnt like that.

“Male dominated”, I laughed again, but apparently it wasn’t that, it was the fact that all she saw was SNOW when she visited.

I advised her to go to Vladivostok the next time – hey, Russia’s a huge country, it ain’t always frozen everywhere!

Anyway … that was a nice conversation – and an interesting one to say the least.

And thats that. The lady whose trained both Mary Kom and Priyanka Chopra – quite the combo eh!

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Any boxer will tell you that the pushups I teach you in Pushup Central, truly the one course of its kind out there on pushups are what boxers train – for hours on end. Any wrestler will tell you the 0 Excuses Fitness System is and should always be and remain the BASELINE for any sort of serious training.

Any elite “strongman” or true “Ironman” (or Iron lady, hehe) will tell you what I tell you in Advanced Hill Training and Animal Kingdom Workouts is the real deal.

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I talk often about “becoming an unstoppable force of nature” in my books, products, I believe most specifically on the Animal Kingdom Workouts page.

Most dismiss it as “pure marketing”.

But it’s more than that, my friend.

Let us, for a minute, take a look at Mother Nature, and the real unstoppable forces there.

Lets talk tsunamis – lets talk WILDFIRES (forest fires, bush fires, whatever you call it depending upon where you’re at) – lets talk … avalanches?

How do all these cataclysmic events START – begin?

The little ripples under the surface of the earth miles down into the ocean no-one hears, not even the ocean dwellers a few feet above “ground level” – THOSE start that giant wave of destruction, the little ripples creating a massive force ultimately that pulls the ocean back from the shore, and then dumps it back with terrifying speed and force NOTHING can match.

Same thing for avalanches and such – a boulder rolling down hill is often enough to start what becomes an unstoppable TORRENT.

Forest fires?

You’ve often heard and seen the signs of “dont smoke around here” in the woods – even one tiny cigarette, one spark is enough to start more which eventually turn into  a conflagration.

Something small builds while you dont notice it. Most people including you might not notice the results.

It could mental, physical, even pyscho physical if you so choose.

But those daily actions, that daily practice BUILDS – until a point where one day you wake up and suddenly realize you’ve got that one thing behind you which really matters – MOMENTUM – and that momentum is picking up.

You may have heard the saying “when you’ve got momentum behind you, you’re unstoppable”.

And it’s TRUE.

In the World Wars, many wars were fought which were seemingly lost, yet the “losing side” kept plugging away until the tides CHANGED – they always do if you keep at it long enough.

Suddenly, the losing side became the one pushing back the others in a giant tide of what would ultimately become an overwhelming VICTORY (though it didnt come easy at all!).

Same thing for sports.

Many a cricket match has been thought to be lost – until the “chasing side” really took it deep and pulled up a miracle.

“It’s never over until the last ball is bowled!”

And it isn’t.

Key thing here, which most people miss, is to get the ball rolling.

Yes.

If you dont get the ball to move, nothing moves. Get it to move, and keep rolling, and it picks up speed, often without you doing much at all in terms of conscious pushes.

Trust me on this one, friend.

And your fitness – the same damn thing.

Those workouts which might not seem to add up to a lot do.

Once you get to the point you’re knocking off 200 odd squats daily, perhaps 50-100 pushups, perhaps 50 pull-ups over the course of a workout or a day, or whatever your current workout is – once you’ve been doing that a while, one day you wake up and realize youre pretty much on auto pilot.

You realize there are TANGIBLE improvements with every workout, which might not have been evident before.

You realize things – obstacles that mattered before barely seem to EXIST NOW, let alone matter.

You wake up one fine day and realize you have the power behind you – the POWER that really counts, matters – the power of MOMENTUM.

And you roll along, picking up speed with each workout – becoming a fitness machine – a bonafide MONSTER.

And thats how it works in life, fitness, goals of any kind my friend.

Once you have momentum on your side, you’re literally unstoppable no matter what anyone else says or does.

Remember this lesson, because it’s not only sage, it’s KEY.

And thats that.

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

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