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Convict Conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weakness-Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength: How to Bust Free of All Weakness-- Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength
 
 

Convict Conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weakness-Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength: How to Bust Free of All Weakness-- Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength [Kindle Edition]

Paul Wade
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How to Train As If Your VERY LIFE Depended on Your Degree of REAL Strength, Power and ToughnessMost physical training systems are designed for the domesticated human animal. That is to say, for us humans who live lives of such relative security that we cultivate our strength and power more out of pride and for a sense of accomplishment than out of an absolute need to survive in the wild. The professional athlete hones his body to function well in a sports event-rather than to emerge safe from a life-or-death struggle. And even those in our military and LEO rely more on the security of their weapons and armor than on their own personal, raw power and brute strength to carry the day. There remains one environment where exuding the necessary degree of authoritative strength and power can mean the difference between life or death: the maximum security prison. In maximum security, the predator preys on the weak like we breathe air. Intimidation is the daily currency. You either become a professional victim or you develop that supreme survival strength that signals the predator to stay at bay.Paul Wade spent 19 years in hell holes like San Quentin, Angola and Marion. He entered this world a gangly, terrorized weakling and he graduated to final freedom, pound-for-pound one of the strongest humans on the planet. Paul Wade dedicated his prison life to the cultivation of that supreme survival strength. And ironically, it is in America's prisons that we can find some of the great, lost secrets of how to get immensely powerful and strong. Paul Wade mined these secrets as if his life depended on it-and of course in many ways it did.Finally free, Paul Wade pays his debt to society-not just with the horrors of his years in the hole-but with the greatest gift he could possibly give us: a priceless set of progressions that can take ANYONE who has the will from abject weakling to strength specimen extraordinaire.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
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  • Print Length: 308 pages
  • Publisher: Dragon Door Publications; 1 edition (2 Mar 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004XIZN5M
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
A Landmark Book 16 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback
This is quite simply the best bodyweight exercise book to appear for years. Disdaining the hype and empty promises which characterise so many exercise books, Wade starts with basics and works up from there. He doesn't view calisthenics as simply a means of cardio or endurance training, but rather teaches them as they were meant to be taught , that is, as a fully fledged system of physical strength training in their own right.

This regime calls for hard work, but does so safely and sensibly. All of the Big Six exercises are broken down into ten steps, which culminate in the ultimate calisthenic exercise. Very few people can do one armed pushups, one armed pullups, one legged squats and so on. I always considered these three in particular as beyond my reach in this lifetime. But, thanks to Wade's method, I can do two sets of ten on each exercise without breaking a sweat.

Wade does not mention the healing benefits of his exercise all that much, but I can testify wholeheartedly to their efficacy. I had several long-standing injuries in my legs, arms and lower back and woke up in pain every morning. All of them have been healed, thanks to Convict Conditioning. This may sound too good to be true(which is what I would have thought), but all I can say is buy this book and give it an honest try. It doesn't matter if you are a seasoned powerlifter or a middle-aged man or woman who hasn't exercised since his or her teens, this book provides a good starting point. I have gotten strong and pain-free, both of which are equally important to me.

Finally, most (if I am honest, nearly all) of the other books I have read on bodyweight training flies in the face of safety and common sense. From advice on doing exercises balistically (which is asking for injury) or going too far too fast, 99.9% of the other books on exercise out there are complete nonsense. This book is different. The advice is given in plain English and the cadence for exercise is slow. This means that your joints are not only safe, but actually get protected as you move up the progressions.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Fantastic Book! 2 Feb 2011
By N. Cox
Format:Paperback
This is a fantastic book that is well written and enjoyable to read. The real genius of "Coach" Wade is that he has taken 6 seemingly impossible exercises and broken them down into steps so that anyone can build their way to achieving those feats.
In the book he promises that following the program will build functional strength in a way that also strengthens joints and heals old injuries and I can certainly say that since I have progressed onto "Uneven Squats" my hip problem has all but disappeared.
The program is fun, challenging and immensely satisfying - I highly recommend it!
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Reviewer: Former National Champion at Judo, Currently active professional mixed martial artist. I have read and tried loads of training routines and worked with national coaches.

Basis of the book:
Can you consider yourself strong if you can't perform exercises that move your own bodyweight.
For this the author has given a list of 6 bodyweight "Master Steps" These are a good choice as a demonstration of overall strength however I would argue that the stand to stand bridge is more about coordination and confidence than strength.

1) 1 Arm Press Up
2) 1 Arm Chin up
3) 1 Leg Squat (pistol to most people)
4) Hanging Straight Leg Raise
5) Stand to Stand Bridge
6) One arm handstand pressup

For each of the exercises listed there are 10 steps of progressively harder exercises with the master step as the final goal. there are 3 levels at each step Beginner, Intermediate and progression as a guide to when to move on.

Good Parts of the Book
Firstly the progression of exercises is excellent, each is more challenging than the last by just enough that if you can perform the progression standard on each with perfect form and cadence then the beginner standard on the next should be acheivable.

The choice of the 6 steps are a good demonstration of strength and if you can do all you will have good strength to weight ratio which will improve your sport. (I can currently do 4 of 6).

Advice about easing into the program is good as is performing the lifts under control.

Use of Hebbian principle to perform submaximal sets to build up rep ranges is a highly effective tool.

Limited space or equipment can give a great workout

Bad Points
Lots of the strongmen he claims built strength using calithenics actually used a lot of weights (They did lift differently to bodybuilders).

Set and reps. Wade has several high rep sets before progression, from eastern european literature and personal practise reps should be limited at 5 to build strength efficiently. However the high reps will build endurance and size depending on how many you do. As advice on progress if you are after strength gains limit the reps to 5 and do more sets.

The routines are not well thought out and dont take into account periodisation or cycling.

Some of the master steps are actually easier than you would imagine if you use proper technique. eg one leg squats if taught correctly can be learnt fast, to build further strength on the legs which as Wade points out is more important than the upper body for sports then adding weight is needed.

Overall
A good book with some excellent exercises and ideas however the understanding of how strength is built is not here and there is a fair amount of bull in the hard sell of bodyweight exercises over weights, we have bought the book stop selling it to us.

Buy the book for the exercises but uses other sources for information as to sets and rep ranges.
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