I was wanting to watch this for a while, not necessarily because it was a “high profile” movie or anything – but mostly because as I’ve written about before, I make it a point to watch everything Stallone does (his work) because it just has that gritty REALISM to it!

One of my last emails yesterday covered it, but as I watch this movie Samaritan, and am half way through it – I gotta stop and say …

One, Sly still HAS it.

The movie might be full of cliches and ridiculous premises (basically two indestructible brothers, one good, one evil, both almost superhumanly strong – so strong that people’s hands fracture when hitting them in the midsection – or they crush toasters with their bare hands – and deform knives with their bare hands – and – most of all – get hit by cars,and apparently put their own bones back into place after which they need to “cool” their bodies down by eating ice cream.

Yeah. Right).  .  . but Sly himself, in the grizzled setting the movie is set in?

HAS STILL GOT IT!

All that training for the Expendables shows – even under all the winter clothing Sly is wearing – hands as thick as MITTS – and shoulders as broad and bulky as ever . . .

. . . When a kid he’s training hits him in the midsection as a test “sucker punch” after being advised to do that to people that jump him out of the blue (and then runnnnnnnnnnnnn) – he almost breaks his hand.

“Thats what you get for sucker punching me”, he says. “Didnt you know I was built like a TANK?”

Hehe.

I haven’t finished the flick as yet but the story itself is so typical I already know how it’s going to end – though Sly said in a pre movie promo or something “there is a twist that will surprise most people”.

Maybe it will, I’m off to find out soon …

But he’s got the movie setting down right, Sly, as he always does has his finger on the pulse of the MASSES – his audience.

Rising unemployment, the hood, riots in the city due to inequality, more robberies, all of it is shown in the movie.

I wonder what my wife who still lives (in her mind) in the world “the world is perfectly normal” would think upon seeing it, but she’d probably go back to her mental cocoon and say “oh thats just a movie!”.

So would some other super cossetted sorts I’m sure.

But it hits home for me, right down to the alpha male fixing himself a bowl of cereal and cold milk, and then crushing the bowl suddenly. Hehe.

Anyway …

Fitness wise?

The core part reminds me of when I wrote about that time (you can find it via a search on the site too!) – where I went to Hong Kong, on the way back someone’s elbow smacked me right in the stomach – I think solar plexus area.

And it just “bounced off me” – I could feel it!

And THIS exercise is what I credit till that day for that sort of core strength, which isn’t as superhuman as you’d think.

Farmer Burns as he wrote in the Lessons of Wrestling and Physical Culture (1914 mail order course)

“My own stomach muscles are soft enough but when I SET THEM, they are so hard as to cause the person STRIKING to hurt their hands”.

And coming from a guy with a 19 inch neck that survived multiple hangman’s drops (no I dont recommend practicing those, hehe) – you gotta LISTEN.

GRIP wise?

Well, that “unnatural grip” I’ve built with the exercises in Gorilla Grip, the “unnatural grip” I’ve built with the ones in “Gorilla Grip Advanced” and more …

You’ll want to GRAB these courses – NOW my friend, they’re that damn good (if you’re in any way interested in improving either core strength or grip strength) . . .

. . . But this piece wouldn’t be complete without a brief gander at super human strength!

NONE of my courses will turn you into a monster that can crush toasters with his bare hands – or break brass bars with them (or bend) – although you’ll get close!

NONE of my courses will give you the ability to miraculously regenerate on nothing but ice cream after hard training – let alone get hit by a car (though you might be surprised on the former! Hehe).

NONE of them will give you a core AS STRONG as the guys in that movie (the brothers – one good, one bad) – but they’ll come close!

The one course I have my friend which truly turns modern day men (that have become mostly WIMPS) into studs and superheroes with superhuman levels of fitness is also one of the most popular, something EVERYONE wants.

It’s something that if you’re fat, out of shape and wondering “how it all went to hell” – and if you’re wondering how to reclaim your lost manhood, the VIRILITY and manhood Mother Nature intended you to be born with (you were) – and then KEEP through your entire life (you lost it) – then you need to grab this course now before any other.

That course is Animal Kingdom Workouts.

Truly will turn you – and make you join, as the reviews say, the “ranks of the superhumans”.

And thats that, my friend.

I’ll be back soon

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – I know a lot of you have been waiting to take back your fitness levels from “Father Time” or “old man lethargy” – or what have you.

I know very well a LOT of you on this list want that boundless energy, stamina, strength that doesn’t quit – all BACK.

And I know damn well MOST of you would like to start a fitness revolution in your life my friend.

And I dont blame you – you deserve it.

Yes?

Yeah,  I thought so.

If you’re tired of being “routinely run down and feel humdrum, if you’re looking for something DIFFERENT in your life, something GOOD, something spectacular to happen, then getting back to Mother Nature is what the Doc ordered, my friend – and it ALL – always starts and ends with your FITNESS!

Truism like no other.

Go ahead and grab the courses above NOW to get started, my friend. Truly the best ever!

TOP SECRET “members only” MONTHLY FITNESS NEWSLETTER by Rahul Mookerjee

I started an impromptu fast last night – which was easy to do, the impromptu part.

The SECRETS mentioned in the Simple and Effective Diet right at the start of the book (no, not in the free preview, hehe) are things that would shock most of the so called experts, yet real men and doers like Herschel Walker for one and countless others have used them for centuries to whip themselves into super stellar shape like I have – and continue to.

One of these secrets is KEY to fat flying off your body at record speeds, and guess what, it doesnt involve a lick of exercise.

No, it doesn’t involve drinking any magic potion either . . .

To learn the key, you’ll have to get the book, yours truly gives it to you GRATIS with a purchase of the 0 Excuses Fitness System (digital download).

Or get it on it’s lonesome, it sure can stand that way.

But this secret makes it very super easy for me to fast – without planning.

And 1.5 days into it?

I feel so damn good I want to go for three days more!

I dont know how long I’ll go, of course – it depends on my mood.

But while I felt somewhat “tired” last night, today?

This morning was hellatious to say the least, I ain’t even got a chance to sit down and drink my damned tea.

It started with the idiot mentioned in the last email (who I still have not heard back from, I doubt I ever will. Dumbass!) – then my phone for some reason kept shutting down, then the wife disappeared someplace, didnt take either one of her phones (dont ask) – then the mother asked where she was, I had no clue, no idea what to tell her, then I “went to find her” (a task unto itself), obviously I couldnt … and, well, the stories and tales that followed – UGH, just UGH.

Explains why I stay away from this situation in general, I’d rather be on my lonesome in China.

LONE WOLF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God, this thing they call family, I’ve no idea if most are this loony, I think they are.

Anyway …….

Point being, I’m hardly “run down” or not having energy.

I remember not jogging, but FLYING up a flight of stairs a while back.

And right now, I could focus on the pinpont of a laser, thats how focused and clear minded I feel ,and I have not even done much of a workout (other than a few stair sprints).

Herschel Walker would famously go on three day fasts, and he’d train for hours – kickboxing, pushups, heavy bag, the work – and for his combat fighting WHILE fasting.

True story, friend, and he aint the only one -I train even better on an empty stomach for DAYS.

Most people reading this will read, and look away saying “oh those people” …

And thats precisely why, as Donald Trump once famously said in the Art of The Deal, most people are content to watch stars on TV, star athletes and so forth. some of them may have as much or more talent, but they never try or have the confidence to try (or are LAZY – I put that in) – and so they remain where they are, watching the DOERS and stars on TV.

And he’s spot on.

Thats a great book, by the way ….

Now where does this leave you, my friend?

Simply this – I’ve got all the resources required and then some to kick your butt into super, stellar shape.

But end of the day, you have to be willing to DO the thing.

You have to be willing to make the investment in products and not run away “oh too much money” or some such utter BS while saving it for pizza and beer later.

You could do that, of course. Hey, it’s a free world, but bottom line remains, to become the best, learn from the best …

To achieve what seems mind boggling NOW, do what it takes to get there, and again, going it on your lonesome wont work – if it did, you wouldnt be on this list eh?

Everyone WANTS it, precious few people are willing to LEARN and invest what it takes to learn from the best – BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE!

Rise UP!

Enough said . . .

And I’ll be back soon.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – If you’ve never fasted before, I dont recommend jumping straight into a fast with NO prior prep or experience. In fact, I do NOT recommend it purely for weight loss either. I’d say you should already be in pretty super shape internally and externally before you attempt fasts, and work into it as well.

More in the book to come on it, but for now, the 0 Excuses Fitness System is what you need. Start there.

Dear Reader,

I mean really.

What have people BECOME these days, the way people think – it’s just …

Last year I gave you an example of a guy who bought advertising on the site, then wimped out and wanted refunds (obviously all denied, since everything was done per his terms and conditions, yet, despite being told “there is nothing instant in life” – he wanted “instant results” (despite having AGREED to the  polar opposite i.e. he would advertise after making payment, and that was that, there was nothing about “results”, in fact I clearly told him he’d have to wait for results of any nature) … I could mention him here again, but even his story pales in comparison to these assholes I’ve been dealing with over the past few months.

Months ago, a certain “Miss Patel” contacted me about doing something similar on the site.

I told her our rates.

She, of course wanted to be a cheapskate and ignore the rate, and pay FAR less.

Ok – since  it seems to be a small barely funded startup (hey, I get it – I’ve been there!) with terrible management, but since they’ve clearly read what I write and like it – and want to base some of their own marketing on that, and pay for it – I agreed as a one time deal.

Months passed, every time I asked them about it – I got some bullshit about them being “swamped”.

Translation?

We’re too cheap to actually pay. Hehe.

OK, whatever.

I finally done got the red ass earlier this month, or last month I believe and told them to politely either shape up or ship out.

Coupla days earlier they apparently decided to shape up, said they would go ahead with it, made payment … or so they said.

THIS is the part that irritates me the most, I told them very clearly that payment needs to be made FIRST before anything would happen.

They agreed multiple times.

Yesterday, I got a weird sort of message in my paypal saying “on hold”.

Paypal has strange, hard to understand rules, which I’ve dealt with before, and thats why I hardly use their service, but whatever – I chalked it up to the game.

I emailed the lady a couple of times.

You’d think they’d respond, but they never did, and I’m sure when they ultimately do it’ll be about “we’re soooooooooooooooooooooo busy” (yeah right lady. You simply didnt want to face the fact you didnt live up to the deal, and you weren’t honest enough to say it upfront).

This morning, I investigated further, and saw the money – a paltry, piddly amount (gotta wonder, is this even a real fuckin company??) – was placed in “escrow” or some nonsense.

I Got it.

Years ago, in China, when I once received payment for an item, for some odd reason, although wechat payments are INSTANT, the funds did not show up in my wechat.

I waited the entire day, investigated, then saw the mofo paying had some sneaky stipulation of “it must be accepted on the back end too or it gets refunded”.

Man, do I hate people like that.

I did his work, but got paid first regardless. And then I never worked for him again.

With this lady, I sent her an email outlining her sneaky behavior, no response.

I refunded her money instantly after that – enough is enough!

Look, lady – we had a deal.

If you come to me saying I do NOT agree to the deal then thats perfectly fine, we shake hands and walk away.

Ah, but you couldn’t. You WANT your stuff on this site, for damn good reason too!

And of course, you agreed to a deal, but you were too cheap to actually follow through, so you put in a sneaky sort of “escrow” rule hoping “he wouldn’t notice”.

What really pisses me off – I emailed you in good faith TWICE yesterday, I figured I’d give you a chance, maybe it was Paypal goofing up or something, but I had that bad feeling, and sure enough, my gut is never wrong.

You were too chicken to even tell me at that stage!

(and believe it or not, her version of escrow didnt say “it will be released as soon as the work is done. No, you gotta wait for a week more so they can find all the excuses in the world to ask for refunds… Hehe).

Look, lady, pay first means pay first, not hold the money until your work is done and then never pay claiming “it wasn’t done”.

I’ve seen way too much bullshit of that nature, and YOUR deal smelt – STANK of BS from day one.

The articles you wanted me to post could have been done in ONE day – let alone be “swamped”.

I mean, Jesus God, be HONEST at least – if you want to do something, do it, if you don’t, dont, but SAY IT!

I’d rather customers like John Walker who say outright “hey man, I dont have the funds right now to purchase the remaining books I want but I’ll let you know as soon as possible”.

For THESE sort of guys, I’ll bend over backwards until pigs fly out of my ass.

For YOUR sort of lady, I’ll do the polar opposite (and she never even paid what she promised in terms of this silly “escrow” she thought up at the last moment).

People these days ugh!

Anyway – reason I bring it up here …

I dont know why, actually – ALL my customers – barring a couple – have been very onboard with me on all of this since we first started.

And that is how I plan on keeping it.

I do business CLEAN, not this sneaky BS people are into.

I’ve no idea if Miss Patel will read this, but I’ve got a sneaky suspicion she’s checked the site a bazillion times already.

No, lady, I dont need your handouts – you either stick to a deal or you dont. It’s just that simple.

And thats that.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Back to fitness, and keeping it real – the 0 Excuses Fitness System amongst all its other great qualities will hone your bullshit detection techniques to a T, and this world we LIVE in, you NEED it – big time ! Get it NOW.

PS #2 – These buffoons even had the flyin GALL to say “we would happy to compensate you for your time”. Yeah. Right. Months fly past, Miss Patel does exactly F all in terms of making any sort of payment (and when she did she paid less than what she agreed upon twice), one fine day she wakes up and decides “let’s string him along a little More” (lady I’ve seen this since childhood – find another damn PATSY!) . . .

. . . Geez. I really should name and shame, maybe I will soon. . . UK based so called company at that, maybe Glyn Bozo should pay them a visit, they’d get along like a house on fire. Hehe.

REFUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And BYe BYE.

with all the defund police nonsense and the anti cop mania I’ve been seeing as of late – THIS doesn’t come as a surprise to me – https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article264659079.html

(basically an entire police force resigned in a small town in Florida)

It’s a bit of an extreme case, that one. But it’s happened in the past… I’ll tell you that much!

But it got me to thinking about something I’ve often written about, something that you can never repeat too often, common sense as it were…

Flash back to when I was young, at the age of 13 or so where apparently “because I had long hair” the cops picked me up (in India) “because they were investigating car stereo robberies” or something.

Ive no idea why they picked on me, all I was doing was LOOKING At a car from the outside, thats all.

They probably picked on others too.

But the guy that picked me up was extremely polite, not so the investigating officer who was rude beyond a point.

They let me go, I told Mom when I got home and of course the general consensus was “he must have done something wrong”.

No I hadn’t …

When Dad got back from work – he made it to the makeshift tents those guys were using as a police station or what not (it was being built at the time I think).

Apparently officer was extremely polite to him, and the rebuke was “because of your long hair”.

To this date I dont quite agree. Hehe.

Be that as it may, yours truly has a long history of hell raising, not the least of which being the two infamous cases (especially the “kissing case” in 2009) in the Delhi High Court which if you research a bit, you’ll know more about (but the cops literally looted us in that case too before we fought back despite being told not to, and WON – along with an official letter of apology from the Police Commissioner as well).

Or, Commissioner of Police, depending upon … hehe.

Anyway – by and large?

I remember what my Dad kept saying “it doesnt pay to get tough with the cops”.

Well, it did in the latter instance, Dad – when you’re right, you’re right, thats something you kept saying “what is right is right, what is wrong is wrong”.

Fighting for something you believe in when you’re right isn’t the coward’s way out – it’s the right thing to do. I’ve done it all my life, despite being told “you’re too young to fight all your life!”

But by and large, again cops and me, in a system which respects the rules?

Personally, I agree with what my father said there (by and large, and believe me, we dont agree on a lot at all!).

Some of the instances back Stateside where the cops “stopped me” for seemingly suspicious activity like walking back at 3 AM to the dorms – luckily, although I did that all the time with beer in my bookbag, it was one of those times I had NOTHING in my bookbag, hehe – and asking me to show them my ID, or that one time I was stopped outside the dorms “because there was a robbery that took place” or something, and I still remember the black dudes all gathering together and lookin at the cops talking to “Habib” as they called me.

Oddly enough, on none of those occasions did I feel any menace, or what these BLM activists keep jumping about.

Yeah, probably they shouldn’t have stopped me, yeah, they probably shouldn’t have wanted to see my bookbag or what not, but I let them see it – very happily.

They barely even glanced once I gave them permission (I can’t even remember if he actually looked inside, or just saw the ID. I think it was just driver’s license, he handed it back and wanted the Student ID) ..

I mean, in general I’ve always felt that cops have a reason for doing what they do, and how they do – again, this in a system where the RULE OF LAW is generally respected, not in systems where cops themselves routinely flout the rules. (and law).

I mean, think about it, these guys are out there on the roads surviving on coffee pretty much, maybe doughnuts or what not while you’re partying safe at home drinking it up, eating it up, whatever, maybe just sleeping, but whatever it is, they deserve a bit more leeway than the average Shmoe in my opinion.

None of that is excusing what Derak Chauvin did, but really, if a cop asks to look in my car politely “for some reason”, to me, I wouldn’t think civil rights violating motherfucker, I’d just say whatever and if I felt he was alright, Id just let him look and be done with it.

Chances are he wouldn’t even bother looking. Hehe.

These guys aren’t stupid, theyve been on the road most of their lives, they know who the real bad guys are, the good guys, the normal guys, the hell raisers, and so forth . . .

. . Again, thats me, and I understand if someone were to politely reply “hey, show me a warrant first”.

I might even say that in some cases.

Depends…

But by and large, mutual respect is what it’s about, and everyone feels that, it’s far too easy to tar all these guys with the same brush of racism, excessive brutality and so forth, but it simply is not true.

Anyway …….

I guess after all the promos I’ve been doing,and will continue to do for Squat 101, another one of those truly brutally honest books (aren’t they ALL, hehe) – Pushup Central was in mind too.

And the facts cops can tell who the REAL deal is from a mile away.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have an ex cop from NY (probably more too that I do not know of) amongst my customers, and Pushup Central is BY far his favorite course.

Even his Karate instructor didnt go as far as I do in the book with the fingertip pushups for one, and I’m just getting started. Hehe.

Our Taekwondo instructor did not either. But he always praised my slow and steady pushups!

Anyway, the great testimonial – one of them – he gave the book is on the Pushup Central page, along with more on the above statement.

And if you’re truly interested in a book that – another one of them – every serious trainee simply must have in their training kit, then get the book now.

And thats that – oh, as for WHY it doesnt pay to get tough with the cops mostly – well, they have more authority over you anyway, so why fight it.

Go with the flow.

Sometimes being a bamboo tree accomplishes results beyond what you’d ever imagine, hehe.

More on that later, but to become a literally flexible bamboo HUMAN, hehe – truly, isometrics done right along with special flexibility training will turn you into a human bamboo if there was every such a thing – and the books in that regard are here –

Isometric and Flexibility Training.

Advanced PROFOUND Isometric and Flexibility Training.

Be sure and check out all reviews on both, good, bad, the Ugly, the entire shebang, and then some.  (BEFORE you purchase, mind you).

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

 

I’ll never forget an instance in China where we (my buddy from the Marines and myself) were discussing a hypothetical scenario of “what if they come to get us” (enough said on that one, please dont ask me why. Much like the discussion on whether the lion is stronger and a better fighter than the TIGER, hehe, it just came out of nowhere.

I dont know if Vincent is reading this. Probably not.

But I still stick, and always will to my assertion the TIGER kicks ass, and the lion is a pale imitation – and does NOT deserve the moniker King of the Jungle – Savannah, maybe, not a king though (he doesnt even hunt, I guess thats why he’s called the King?) – NOT the jungle definitely.

And you, my brother will stick to your version ie the lion.

We’ll hopefully meet up for some cold ones soon and discuss this further).

Anyway ……..

And then I asked him “what if they try and stop me” (we were discussing security in some form, ie stop me, “Twiggy” as out of shape panting Bozos like to call me or “in superb shape” as Marc the African Silverback Gorilla once called me, or my buddy from the Marines – take your pick) …

… “I ain’t a battletank like you, brother”, I remember saying.

Looking at him, even an Abrams tank would make way. Hehe.

I’m not THAT big, I remember him saying. Hehe. Great guy!!

Anyway, his response was one of the ages.

“YOU????” he literally exploded.

“STOP YOU????”

“Have you seen you?? I mean, look at you!”

They’re not going to even try and stop you!

And thats all he said. And that was enough said on a question I already knew the answer too.

LOL. But he said it in such a sage, from the heart manner I had to mention it!

Marc the African silverback Gorilla was less prosaic, and more direct as he always is .

He made a gesture of walking out, with arms spread, as if you’re carrying heavy items.

“Just walk out of there, heavy ass suitcase in each hand!”

Sage, hehe.

Reminds me of my friend Jay who once looked at a photo of mine (he hadn’t seen me for years) and then exclaimed –

“I train, but not like you! I go to the gym, but not like YOU, MACHO MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

OR, a guy I know Ricky “tune body to badi solid bana rakhai hai!”

(translation – you’ve built a pretty solid body there!)

Anyway again …

Growing up these guys like a certain Vivian Richards, for one.

All 6’4″ four inch of this gum chewing monster carrying a bat heavy as a club probably and wielding it like one too, striding on to the cricket field menacingly, GUM CHEWING SWAGGER, legs PUMPING – core STRONG AND TONED – STARING the bowlers, no slouches back then with that heavy ass leather ball in their hands, NOT wearing a helmet, refusing to – and going at it tonkity tonk.

MACHO MAN!

Swash bucking machisom, I remember thinking, PIRATE!!! (truly from the Carribean. Hehe).

Or, Big Matt the Bat from Australia, Matthew Hayden mentioned on the Battletank Shoulders! page – big, huge burly with a chest that looked literally armor plated and made him look 3x as broad as everyone else, with another club x 10 for a cricket bat …

STARING THE FAST BOWLERS IN THE EYE, WALKING DOWN THE TRACK TO DISPATCH ’em OVER THEIR HEADS!

“Now thats a big boy!” I remember an ex exclaiming once (she was American, knew nothing about cricket).

Bully boy was his cricket persona (off the field, the reverse, so it should be).

You dont necessarily have to be big either, my friend

You have to “have it though”. Its something internal, you cannot fake it, it SHOWS.

Ricky Ponting, Aussie cricket great (batter) had it.

Tiny enough guy, slim, sleek, strong forearms, but not big by ANY standard – had it.

You could feel it every time he walked onto that field, that STEELY gaze that he gave opponents, the UNWAVERING THOUSAND YARD stare – and his RESULTS!!!!

And the smackdowns he handed bowlers routinely all over the world, hehe.

Growing up, I’ve always admired those sort of guys.

From a young age when I was trying to lift heavy items when moving, even my family, and I’m certainly not on the closest of terms with them, has called me that “macho man”. (to an extreme, admittedly, but so be it).

I still remember SMARTING When told to lift a briefcase instead of a heavy item at the age of six.

MEMORIES!

Anyway …

Jean Claude Van Damme once rightly made the comment about “The entire world loves to see two men FIGHT”.

Why – well, THIS email will tell you …

I’ll tell you this, if you’re a real man, that feeling of innate machismo, that UNDERSTATED swagger – cannot be beat.

Its what every real man wants deep down at the core my friend.

And training like a real man will get you there.

If you’re with me thus far, and want to develop “it” – that quality that will SET YOU APART from the rest – well, the two courses I’d recommend NOW are the following –

The 0 Excuses Fitness System

Animal Kingdom Workouts

Once you get damn good at these, report back, and I’ll advise more.

I sort of think at that point though you’ll be rushing to get ’em yourself…

And thats that.

Back soon.

Best

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – We’re currently having a pre-order special on what promises to be another brutal training course – Squat 101, it’s a must have if you’re in any way, I repeat ANY WAY serious about your physical and mental, for that matter, training. Check it out NOW, and place your pre-order NOW.

REAL STRENGTH, you gotta KNOW what it FEELS LIKE FIRST!

LEG RIPPLING SWAGGER!

Without you even trying, my friend.

I dont know if you know what I’m talking about, but maybe you do …

In 2002, I went to China for the first time – at the age of 23, supposedly my “best time” when I was supposed to be in the “best shape of my life”.

Yet, for me, it’s been the opposite most of my life.

When young, I was never in good shape – though I wanted to be – and got ridiculous advice from all and sundry in terms of training such as “lift pink 10 kg dumbbells” for half an a hour day, thats how the big guys build muscle!

Or, the “he thinks he’s so strong” comments made by family members who did not know any better that tore me down mentally.

This isn’t me castigating family here. This is me being brutally honest with you about my LIFE and fitness – and ME – in general as I always am, and telling you a story as I always end up doing – all true, hehe.

REAL LIFE! Perhaps no other book fits the “real” (keeping it real) category better than THIS one, the words BE flying out of my mouth as I speak – phew!

Deep breath.

But anyway, so I went to China, climbing the stairs to my fourth floor apartment left me dizzy (almost) and breathing hard, when I had to lug suitcases up there? My! It was like I had to climb Everest!

And dont get me wrong.

I did other things back then – I was a weight lifter – I lifted real weights, not 10 kg dumbbells!

People in the office would squeeze my forearms and say “he’s STRONG!”

I still remember my mother, who once made the “he thinks he’s so strong” comment when I was young say the reverse when she saw me lug their suitcases up – heavy ass 25 kg suitcases, one hand at a time up to my apartment.

“I’ll never forget how you did that”, she exclaimed.

But even with all that, a lot was missing.

I was strong, but not anywhere NEAR fit.

And I could use my strength ONCE – but nowhere near what it needed to be ie. “repetitively”.

It was really in the September of 2003 or I believe 2004 (I Think I first went to China in 2003, not 2002 as I said up there) that my life changed …

Anyway, I’ll get the dates clear later.

… when I met a certain Ann Lee!

The first time I dated her in the park – right smack next to my house, with a huge mountain in it I could SEE from my apartment, yet for some odd reason I ignored this free fitness tool right in front of me (we often do that!) … the date was her idea, the park? I didnt even know it was there! – and we climbed the mountain, I remember what a MESS I felt like when doing it!

I remember STRUGGLING up that damn hill like it was Everest (right now I can slink up it easy peasy five times a day, and it ain’t an easy hill to hike, trust me!) … I remember how out of breath I was, I remember my legs turning to jelly – my lower back wonking out – and calves burning … and all along, I remember a PUMP, a massive PUMP in my forearms of all things I had NEVER felt with anything else!

I still remember the girls there giggling in that cute Chinese way and pointing at the fat lao wai (foreign devil, or “wai guo ren” – old man from from foreign land) climbing the hell ….

Or was it hill. Hehe. It felt like the former!

I remember thinking “when will this damn torture end”. Hehe. That hill felt interminable!

Up “she” goes – yet again, hehe. As Uncle Bob once told me “thats what God invented fourth gear for”. I’d say SECOND gear on hills, hehe. And my two gears are all I ever needed!

I was going to put the picture from Advanced Hill Training here too, maybe someday.

For now – back to it –

THAT, as a certain Kelly was to say “years later” – is REAL TRAINING!

REAL HILL climbing!

I had experienced it before when climbing the Indian Himalayas, so steep that when I asked my father to do it again once after a day the very vehment “NO WAY!” was all the answer I needed Hehe.

Anyway – where was I.

Swashbuckling thighs, eh.

The hill caused a revolution in my life, fitness wise, most of it is here for you to see!

It CHANGED my life – till this day, I credit Ann Lee for doing this.

If she had not come into my life, none of this would have happened.

Of course, I credit my work on a certain Dongguan Expat website as well for that, but thats another story!

Anyway, I quickly got in better shape climbing that hill on the weekend, then after Ann Lee kicked my rumpus again (I was making excuses about not climbing after work “it’s too late” or something) – I started doing it daily, and a fitness machine emerged.

The lower back that had felt so wonky for DAYS after that first climb – became STRONG.

The legs – thighs especially turned into rippling pillars of STEEL from that climb.

My upper body fat disappeared, my strength improved, my PULL-ups shot through the roof, most of all, I was seeing my GRIP strength improve by leaps and bounds which amazed me!

An idiot once wrote back on Gorilla Grip saying “he claims he’s improved his grip by NOT doing a single pull-up for months, but he doesnt say how he’s done it!”.

Actually, I did say.

He was just too dumb to read between the lines.

My core strength increased x 10, my digestive issues went away, but all of that is different, another story, what I’m going to tell you about is one night I was walking to the bank to get some cash for a trip out of China, and the way I was walking, with my thighs bulging out naturally – well, I dont know if you guys have ever experienced that, but it makes you feel like a BILLION BUCKS!

I repeat, a billion bucks, untouchable, confidence like nothing else, and it usually comes with a toned swagger to your CORE too, strength you will NEVER lose!

I’ve often tried to replicate this “without having it”, and it showed. People told me “dont splay your legs out like that!”

But when you have it naturally, it shows too!

In the movie Get Carter, Sly Stallone walks into see the owner of the pub where his brother Richie died – now, he’s dressed in a full suit, typical “mob enforcer”, calm, menacing, quiet, viper ready to strike if need be … goateed to a T, and so forth, as my friend Lily once said, “looking like a bad ass!”

He was.

But that walk to the desk, much like my walk to the ATM that night, the way the thighs rippled, that understated SWAGGER that comes from being in SUPER SHAPE – I’ll never forget that!

You have to FEEL IT to UNDERSTAND!

And squats, my friend, are the ONE exercise that will give you this x 10000!

Sure, you can climb stairs, you can hike hills – all of that is great.

But like I’ve said above, nothing replaces squats.

You that can hike hills for hours might be amazed when you first get on some of the squats in my program, you might not be able do more than 25, and you might not be able to walk for days after wards either.

Trust me on this one!

Squats do what NO other exercise does, my friend, and back to swashbuckling SWAGGER, and machismo, and feeling great… well, thats the icing on the cake, but also the reason you should be DOING these in the first place!

On one last note – some of you might ask though, “why do I need squats” (given what I’ve said about other forms of training).

You might as well ask me “why do you need to breathe – or train – or live in the first place”, it’s that obvious.

Look, like I’ve said before, nothing beats the up and down motion your body makes, and the internal changes that go on your body, the strength it builds, the functional strength it builds throughout the whole body that you simply cannot get from any other movement.

When you wrestle, for one, what sort of positions do you have to constantly fight your way out of ?

I dont think you’re climbing a hill or stairs in that motion, are you?

Squats have a CIRCULAR sort of motion, my friend, not just Hindus, all squats, that ensure you return back to where you started, “full circle”, a motion used in EVERYDAY life, fighting, walking, all of it, and again, you have to squat first to truly understand it.

Sure, the other methods I’ve mentioned work, but they dont work nearly as well as squats, and NOT in the same manner.

Does that mean you dont do them?

Of course not.

You do BOTH. You have ALL the fitness tools you need in your fitness toolkit, not just one, but you dont neglect the most basic and important one as most people DO.

Squats build EVERYDAY strength and functional fitness – and I’m talking BODYWEIGHT squats in a way nothing else can, that is the most simple and concise answer I can give you. There is a reason the old timers did these daily without fail and in high reps, and if even that isn’t enough for you, you’re at the wrong page, and probably better off pumping and humping the leg press at the Jim.

And to find out more about how YOU too can develop this sort of swaggering machismo and strength in your entire body like NO other exercise can give you, go to the Squat 101 page NOW.

And reserve your copy of the book pronto, this is worth it’s weight in gold.

And thats that.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

Period.

Yes, period.

I dont care what the lazy asses say about step-ups being an equivalent, I dont care what fitness gurus , myself included , tell you about OTHER forms of equally brutal (in some ways, not all) leg training like climbing hills and such – those work big time, hell yes, they do – but nothing, and I’ve said this before tons of times, replaces the squat.

Nothing at all, that up and down motion you get from squats CANNOT be replicated by any other exercise, my friend.

Now, for a long time – well, a few months I’ve been thinking about this one book “Squat 101“, which with all else going on, and there is just so much happening right now, has been put on the backburner, along with a lot of other great books in the offing.

And today, I put EVERYTHING to the side.

I even almost closed my door “not to be disturbed”, curiously enough, I wasn’t anyway. when you’re damned and determined to do something, the Universe makes sure you do just that, the seas part, the WORLD makes way for you!

And I made more progress on Squat 101, including getting the sales page – the book is almost done, I just need to get the pictures taken and put the workouts in (which the first part will take longer, if you can believe that. I’m terrible at taking photos and videos, I dislike them, but we all do what we dont like sometimes! Hehe).

I like the WRITING part, as you might imagine, I love it, that part is DONE already.

Anyway …

I’ve spoken tomes before about why nothing replaces the squat, my friend.

If you ain’t on board as yet, you probably either are new here or shouldn’t be here – or have not been paying attention, NO exceptions.

The comment linked in the title of this email, post, what have you – semantics, ugh – is MINE.

And many a great writer has said it before in different terminology.

In the great bodyweight training Dinsoaur Bodyweight Training, Brooks Kubik talks about how you should do bodyweight squats, and do them your entire life.

In Combat conditioning, another classic book, Matt Furey says “if you aren’t doing Hindu squats, you’re not really doing Combat conditioning”.

And so forth.

In my book 0 Excuses Fitness, which has been very widely acclaimed as “the very best in bodyweight fitness out there, there is nothing that comes EVEN CLOSE” – I devote a attention to squats yes, but not nearly ENOUGH. (in my opinion, at least, although I have not heard anyone else say it!).

all along, I had this niggling feeling I wasn’t devoting “enough attention to squats”.

I did to pushups, yes.

But even then I came out with Pushup Central – another classic manual with 55 different ways on how to perform “the world’s oldest exercise” and that was both very well received and very warranted (and a classic example of DOING the thing first even though “no-one asked for it”).

Sometimes you gotta DO first.

The customer – YOU – sometimes has to be SHOWN the final product – FIRST.

And back to squats, for some reason, a lot of the great books on bodyweight training culture don’t talk a lot about ‘em. Or if they do, they dont talk a LOT on them.

This exercise is worth its weight in gold, and deserves a book unto itself, or several.

I mean that!

EVERY serious fitness enthusiast and trainee MUST have this book sitting on their mantelpiece along with 0 Excuses Fitness, Gorilla Grip and Pushup Central (for starters).

It’s been in the offing for ages, and I feel like a bit of a fool for not getting to this one earlier, hehe. (but all happens when it’s supposed to happen, livin in the FLOW as it were).

And you’d be a fool TOO, my friend not to reserve it now – while we’re having a pre-order special for it, and the prices are as low as you’ll ever see on this one, my friend.

If you claim you’re into fitness, but don’t want this book, if you claim “you like brutal and intense training” but shy away from squats in all their forms, shape and guises, if you say you’re in top shape but cannot do 100 squats without pausing for breath, if you don’t do squats damn near daily, you ain’t training my friend, and neither are you really serious about your fitness regimen.

That’s the brutal honest hard truth – I hate to break it to you – but it’s true.

This book is simply a MUST have, period, I’m not EVEN going to hype it any more than that, the BOOK, the EXERCISE, speaks for itself.

Jump on this – NOW, and HERE is where you go to do so- Squat 101.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – As ole Steve Austin once said “I dont care what else you do, if you train, you’ll grow!”

and if a wrestler on the road, all banged up most of the time with a 100 niggles and injuries and so forth says that, an ass kicker (bonafide if there ever was one) says so, if the Great Gama who swore by this one great exercise amongst others said so and DID so, if countless others have said so and done so and achieved greatness, then you can be sure this book will help YOU TOO, my friend.

Again, HERE is the link to place that pre-order.

DO so.

NOW!

You know who I’m talking about, and the competitions dont you??

Those puffed monster with muscles so puffy that you wonder if they’re even human, those bloated fools with peckers the size of 1 inch you know what and shrinking by the hour – those nuts who cannot live without their capsules, pills, and constant worry about “muscles not being pumped” – those unnatural looking bodies with muscles pumping everywhere … just, UGH!

I believe I have a photo on the Animal Kingdom Workouts page?

I believe I talked to one of the wannabes for that competition, curiously enough although the health of the contestants is the polar opposite of anywhere near healthy, the tourney is marketed as being “the epitome of health” and people fall for it … mentioned on the Shoulders like Boulders! page.

I’ve often wondered whats the point of “building” – I use that term sparingly – yourself up or DOWN to the point you can barely squat to take a dump or lift your arms up to put a shirt on (no, I aint kidding on the examples, there are MORE extreme examples)??

I mean, a 12 pack may look “good” (ugh!!) but when it can’t do a damn thing, when you could punch a hole in it with your breath almost, whats the bloody point???

Yet, it continues for ages, still does, tells you what society has been slowly turning into for ages, a bunch of wusses and NOT real folks, a bunch of sissy boys and whimpering Mama’s boys for the most part that all want the easy way out that leads to nowhereville.

whew.

Rant and a half, but then again, here is what I heard back from a great customer (again, carrying on from HERE) …

Hello Rahul

I was also referring to the mass monsters being just too heavy/massive to do pull-ups.

Most if not all of the old time/old school bodybuilders from the “golden age” either used bodyweight exercise extensively or at a minimum included exercises like Push-Ups, Pull-Ups, Chin-Ups, Handstand Push-Ups and Dips regularly in their workouts.

Since the late 1980’s there has been an emphasis on becoming as massive as humanly possible, it is since then that there has been the inclusion of human growth hormone and insulin on top of the massive amounts of testosterone and anabolic steroids these bodybuilders take.

These people may be able to Squat 3 times their bodyweight with a bar but ask them to crank out Hindu Squats and they fail miserably, their strength to weight ratio is also out of whack, it is not just fat people who struggle to complete even the most basic of bodyweight exercises.

Pulling yourself up over a bar is “training for survival” it can be likened to pulling yourself over a high wall/fence if you’re being pursued by some enemy soldiers (for when China overthrows India) and you want to evade capture.

The term “functional strength” should not exist, this should be the norm for all but the sickest/oldest of our society but with every passing year the masses get sicker and weaker to the extent that they struggle to do even the simplest of tasks.

Anyway got go for now, take care my friend.

I would have left out the politics (what people call politics, what I call reality) OUT of this, yet, in the sort of mood I am NOW, I aint either.

If my response offends, so be it. If you can find a proper counter to it logically, I’m all fucking ears, but please dont come back to me whining about how politically incorrect t is to say what I am, because it’s TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!

Completely agree – that is what I meant by people having a “different definition of strength” these days i.e. they may bench the house once or twice, but ask them to do 25 proper pushups, chances are they wont get past three if even that. Hehe.

Sometimes I wonder what is the purpose of competitions like Mr Olympia which they fool the masses into thinking “thats the epitome of health”, when those bloated muscles and the mess those guys are internally are the polar opposite, but that is what society has become these days, fake and “wusses” in general. Ugh. Nothing real anymore, been that way for years – and therefore, thanks for being one of the few ones remaining “the survivors” that DO keep it real, and always will! hehe (but I mean that my friend).

I’ve known people personally that take HGH and stuff, personally, I cannot understand why people do it – you can get all the T boost and what not you want from high intensity workouts, and they dont necessarily have to be bodyweight only either, I really think its the lure of “the easy way out” and “muscles sprouting” bullshit the modern day muscle media so popularizes.

Spot on w.r.t pull-ups! As for China overthrowing India, unfortunately you’re right, unless things change, that is precisely what will end up happening – – the masses here dont believe it, but those “in the know” do. . . (I just did a post with India in it “why I can’t stand beggars” – sadly, India is a bloody mess, considering it was truly a jewel in the crown back in the day, well, it’s just sad, a country with so much potential, except the public just dont give a shit about anything other than pissing and moaning in general, and doing F all to fix the problems they claim they hate, and there are so damn many, whats sad is these days theyre rationalizing it by saying “it happens everywhere” – no jt dont either. REALITY FUCKING CHECK! Ugh).

Anyway, along with the “she’s arisen from her pit” term you once used which I truly LOVE – the pictures that evokes , lol, SO TRUE! – what you said about functional strength and the term “should not be there”, and the reason for it not being there?

We should frame that and put it on people’s walls. Hehe. You’re so right – strength should be functional – period!

Tell people these days that, you might as well just “sometimes it’s easier to just give up” as I once saw a little boy (caricature) pissing out the words on the desk of a senior manager in China in 2002.

Ah, the memories of them days at the factory! At least life was somewhat normal back then, even if they had those massive rats running around lunch room at the factory while people ate if you can believe that. LOL – and UGH!

cheers

Rahul

and then.

PS – Now in terms of “big guys” – look at ole Doug Hepburn. Bodyweight of over 250 kgs I believe, with all the genetic defects the man was born with – became a champ to the point he was doing handstand pushups on DIPPING BARS OF ALL THINGS! I still remember the SHOCKED LOOK my buddy from the Marines, all 6’1″ of him gave me on that one – dont blame him!

Or, Bert Asserati the old time English wrestler and his one arm handstands… list goes on and on – THAT is real STRONGMAN STUFF!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

And there it is, my friend.

And thats what I base my entire business on.

REAL WORDS, real STUFF, REAL TRAINING – that really works.

Brutal, bare bones, in the trench, REAL STUFF.

Get you some NOW if you so choose!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

I dont know how I got onto this subject.

Ugh.

But I’ve lost it SO many times in the subcontinent – to a lesser extent in China as well,  but a much, much lesser extent – with these goddamned BEGGARS!

The problem is particularly pernicious in the subcontinent where the begging mafia basically does all it can to … ah, but let me start with a PICTURE.

You’re standing there on the road – or driving a car, minding your own damn business

Some beggar, usually a woman with a sickly kid in tow (usually one she carries in her arms) which show up begging for money with tons of sob stories, and an appearance that if you didnt know better youd fall for “oh, POOR lady!” some would think.

And hand over the cash.

These fuckers though, both male and female for the most part – you wont believe it, but come nighttime they shed their outer skin and don fancy clothes and drive, as they say in India “long cars” all night long partying.

Quite literally – Google if you dont believe me.

And they harass bystanders for cash during the day.

Growing up, I never understood why my father wouldn’t give these idiots money – when I grew up a little more, I did.

You know whats really sad though?

The kids in India, and the subcontinent that are FORCED into a life of begging – at least while they’re young – often maimed by the mafia, and by and large, no-one really cares…

This same mafia of course does all it can to prey on kids, and loot people in other manners too.

And while not ALL beggars are part of the mafia, when you see an able bodied man or woman (and dont get me wrong, it applies equally, but the women these days take undue advantage of the feminism movement and … yes, it applies even to begging! I remember a guy telling me sardonically the problem is worse – she’s a woman, you can’t even say anything beyond a certain point!) begging for alms, you feel like whipping his or her ass, and telling him or her, as my wife once told a beggar “earn yourself, eat yourself”.

And so forth.

Ive been doing my damndest to teach my daugher to stay far the fuck away from this sort.

In China, they have high tech beggars with QR codes, but thankfully the problem is mostly gone along with a host of other social evils very much present in the subcontinent (and tolerated) such as child labor, for one – or the domestic help abuse – and much more.

Those in the subcontinent (my wife being one example) believe it happens in China or “everywhere” too because of the isolated cases you read about, but believe me, China despite all its faults is light years of India (China and the far East in general) and the subcontinent on all this (while knowing deep down inside I’m right – its just a way to justify her, and those who think that way “current reality”) – and I suspect you guys reading this deep down inside know it, even though it aint the politically correct thing to say.

Anyway, I’ve lost it on occasion in China too as you know, because I hate being PESTERED for no reason, and me being a lao wai in China, working out, the nuts coming up wanting to take selfies, wechat’s, ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Anyway ………….

Applies to life too.

We all need HELP once in a while or more than it, thats fine.

But HANDOUTS and those constantly wanting them are different, you can spot that sort from a country mile away, and I personally do all I can to keep them away from THIS here business.

Because that ain’t the just do it spirit.

It aint the buckle down to bare bones, brass tacks and get her DONE thang.

And thats that from me.

Ugh.

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Why people claim “they hate all of this” but do exactly F all to fix things other than blame the government (curiously enough formed by the PEOPLE) is beyond me. Maybe someone from or in India can tell me!

In the meantime, ANCIENT India, now THAT was a gem! Pity things are what they are now, but ancient India was where it all came from – fitness included.

Yes, those fancy shmancy Chinese tai Chi moves you see were originally Indian, my friend – fact, like it or not …

And the three exercises, and more that will get you in superhuman shape – well, who better than yours truly to teach them to you in the 0 Excuses Fitness System.

Been used for ages by wrestlers and boxers all over the world, a system that gets the lay person fitter than a fiddle in a nonce, and gets Ironmen panting as soon as they begin, hehe.

Get it NOW.