Book 2: Convict Conditioning
This may be the book with the longest and silliest subtitle:
Convict conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weakness Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength
Premise: Strength through progressive calisthenics using body weight as told by a former prison inmate.
Actuality: A body-weight approach to fitness. Very sound tips on injury, great explanation of forms (starting with very beginner (e.g. wall push-ups) to cross-fit games exercises (e.g. hand-stand push-ups.) The prison story? Likely fake given the following disclaimer "names, histories and circumstances have been changed partially or completely."
Quick read, sound advice, and realistic work out schedules (emphasis on going slowly as joints, tendons, and ligaments do not strengthen as quickly as muscles.) For some reason the paper book is outrageously expensive on Amazon but the Kindle price was significantly less. Recommended to me by a Fitocracy pal in the UK. I love it.
(Note, I am 43, female, and a recovering couch potato.)
Unique featureDiscussion and photos of early 20th century strongmen. 6 pack abs before the invention of the "crunch"!
This is likely going to join the pantheon of fitness books that focus on body-weight exercises and/or non-gym training.
Convict conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weakness Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength
Premise: Strength through progressive calisthenics using body weight as told by a former prison inmate.
Actuality: A body-weight approach to fitness. Very sound tips on injury, great explanation of forms (starting with very beginner (e.g. wall push-ups) to cross-fit games exercises (e.g. hand-stand push-ups.) The prison story? Likely fake given the following disclaimer "names, histories and circumstances have been changed partially or completely."
Quick read, sound advice, and realistic work out schedules (emphasis on going slowly as joints, tendons, and ligaments do not strengthen as quickly as muscles.) For some reason the paper book is outrageously expensive on Amazon but the Kindle price was significantly less. Recommended to me by a Fitocracy pal in the UK. I love it.
(Note, I am 43, female, and a recovering couch potato.)
Unique featureDiscussion and photos of early 20th century strongmen. 6 pack abs before the invention of the "crunch"!
This is likely going to join the pantheon of fitness books that focus on body-weight exercises and/or non-gym training.