Powerlifting in Prison

Kev M

and 9 mins into this

wouldn't fancy giving any red lights

Nervous Wreck

Wow... Prison keeps you well fed!

Edwardius

Yeah, they're all jacked. Who's gonna sell something replicating prison training? has to happen! There will be certs!

Remmy

Dead Ed wrote: »

Yeah, they're all jacked. Who's gonna sell something replicating prison training? has to happen! There will be certs!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Convict-Conditioning-Weakness-Survival-Strength/dp/0938045768/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1322607127&sr=1-2-catcorr

Antisocialiser

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Wow... Prison keeps you well fed!

Yeh, how the hell how these guys getting enough cals to keep them swole?

Edwardius

Remmy wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Convict-Conditioning-Weakness-Survival-Strength/dp/0938045768/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1322607127&sr=1-2-catcorr

God damn it! :rolleyes:

rubadub

There are doubt whether that Paul Wade guy who wrote convict conditioning is a real person, i.e. it is just some fitness guy with a pseudonym posing as an ex con.


The front cover depicts a guy doing a one arm handstand pushup,

rubadub wrote: »

the writer also claims to have done a dozen freestanding one arm handstand pushups. A gymnastics coach for the US team said he has never witnessed or heard of any person capable of a single one, even with support, let alone 12 freestanding. The same coach knows a guy that did 163 free standing full ROM HSPU on parrallel bars. The guy who runs beastskills is in the photos in the book and shows him apparently doing them(with support), but I think he admitted he could not do them.

The problem with this is they list doing 1 as a "beginner standard" so people might be training hard to try and acheive something that nobody might have ever done before.

Edwardius

It does seem fishy. Read somewhere that they reckoned DuCaine wrote the thing. Even the name "Paul Wade" might as well be "John Smith". Found this there now http://kbforum.dragondoor.com/kettlebells-strength-conditioning-forum/139656-okay-why-did-we-call-convict-conditioning.html

Dathai

Solitary Fitness by Charles Bronson.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Solitary-Fitness-Charles-Bronson/dp/1844543099

Black Sheep

I read somewhere that the guy who posed for demonstration photographs for that book is the guy who has beastskills.com. I think he has said openly that even he couldn't actually do some of the movements in the book - they shot them at the top, at the bottom etc. with him holding the positions for the shots.

T-Nation did an article about prison training a while back (a 2 parter) http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance_investigative/training_behind_bars_i (Not work / family safe)

I'm not sure I like the idea of prisoners coming out bigger and stronger than they went in.

Edwardius

Agreed, I like my junkies skinny and weak!

Degsy

These guys cant be getting much protein..american prison food is notoriously full of bread and starch with mystery meat on special occasions only.

Just goes to show a lot of whats taken as read on forums doesnt always apply in the real world.

Antisocialiser

Degsy wrote: »

These guys cant be getting much protein..american prison food is notoriously full of bread and starch with mystery meat on special occasions only.

Just goes to show a lot of whats taken as read on forums doesnt always apply in the real world.

The bigger guys probs eat all the lil ones' food - that's the only logical explanation.

COH

Degsy wrote: »

These guys cant be getting much protein..american prison food is notoriously full of bread and starch with mystery meat on special occasions only.

Just goes to show a lot of whats taken as read on forums doesnt always apply in the real world.

I imagine that if someone has the ingenuity to make knives out of toilet seats and traffic heroin into prison then sourcing a few scoops of whey can't be that much of a problem!

kevpants

Degsy wrote: »

These guys cant be getting much protein..american prison food is notoriously full of bread and starch with mystery meat on special occasions only.

Just goes to show a lot of whats taken as read on forums doesnt always apply in the real world.

Exactly. Bronson was on solitary for 90% of his life and he's built like a tank.

Protein schmotein

Gummy Panda

Degsy wrote: »

These guys cant be getting much protein..american prison food is notoriously full of bread and starch with mystery meat on special occasions only.

Just goes to show a lot of whats taken as read on forums doesnt always apply in the real world.

Is that in all prisons or just that Texan tent camp one?

Brian?

The food in federal prisons is actually better than the food in most Public schools. One of the issues raised by the author of "fast food nation" was that the grade of meat used in elementary schools was below the minimum grade allowed in prisons.

I am sure there are no shortage of drug addicts they can buy food from as well.