Convict Conditioning
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Anyone read this book and changed training styles? I used to only train for aesthetics ans simply give me something to do. This after a few years with no real goal soon became less and less until I mainly just ran.
I then read a book called Convict Conditioning. It was written by a man who spent most of his life in jail in america. Due to being locked up all day the convicts would train using old school callisthenics techniques to keep them in shape and gain strength for protection.
I now enjoy improving my own strength through body weight training and wondered if many others also do this?
I then read a book called Convict Conditioning. It was written by a man who spent most of his life in jail in america. Due to being locked up all day the convicts would train using old school callisthenics techniques to keep them in shape and gain strength for protection.
I now enjoy improving my own strength through body weight training and wondered if many others also do this?
Haven't read the book but I've mostly used calisthenics for most of my resistance work for the last 6 months or so.
My aim was to improve my all round strength, fitness, and endurance, as well as losing weight. Being big and lifting huge weights never really appealed to me. I realised that I was going to the gym and basically using a running machine and then a mat to do press-ups, sit-ups, crunches etc and that I could do all that at home for free so I stopped going to the gym. There's something simple and uncomplicated about calisthenics that quite appeals. Few exercises offer a better all-round strength and endurance benefits than press-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups etc.
After 12 months I've dropped from 93kg to a settled 78-79kg, lost 5 inches off my waist and got my 5k time down from 37 minutes to 23. Haven't set foot in a gym for 6 months and do nothing more than simple calisthenics at home plus running/cycling. Highly recommend it.
My aim was to improve my all round strength, fitness, and endurance, as well as losing weight. Being big and lifting huge weights never really appealed to me. I realised that I was going to the gym and basically using a running machine and then a mat to do press-ups, sit-ups, crunches etc and that I could do all that at home for free so I stopped going to the gym. There's something simple and uncomplicated about calisthenics that quite appeals. Few exercises offer a better all-round strength and endurance benefits than press-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups etc.
After 12 months I've dropped from 93kg to a settled 78-79kg, lost 5 inches off my waist and got my 5k time down from 37 minutes to 23. Haven't set foot in a gym for 6 months and do nothing more than simple calisthenics at home plus running/cycling. Highly recommend it.
dave0010 said:
Anyone read this book and changed training styles? I used to only train for aesthetics ans simply give me something to do. This after a few years with no real goal soon became less and less until I mainly just ran.
I then read a book called Convict Conditioning. It was written by a man who spent most of his life in jail in america. Due to being locked up all day the convicts would train using old school callisthenics techniques to keep them in shape and gain strength for protection.
I now enjoy improving my own strength through body weight training and wondered if many others also do this?
Not read it but most of my training now is bodyweight (but 20+ stone for now which doesn't help!) push ups at various elevations/hand spacings, free squats, dips, ab work, running against resistance and cable work, with a couple of weight sessions/exercises added in + boxing.I then read a book called Convict Conditioning. It was written by a man who spent most of his life in jail in america. Due to being locked up all day the convicts would train using old school callisthenics techniques to keep them in shape and gain strength for protection.
I now enjoy improving my own strength through body weight training and wondered if many others also do this?
I like the freedom of not always having to set/chase reps and often just go for time or non stop circuits for 20 to 40 mins. Miles fitter as a result and not much weaker on parts that still get trained/see some weights - some areas well down but after years of not doing stuff I can't be surprised at that.
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