Solitary Fitness - The Ultimate Workout From Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner

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He was released on 30 October 1988, but spent merely sixty-nine days as a free man before he was arrested again. But despite being best-known as a rough and ready convict who has spent more time in solitary confinement than nearly anyone in Britain, 67-year-old Bronson is also an absolute unit.

He was briefly released, but it didn’t last long; Bronson was convicted for planning another armed robbery and was handed a life sentence in 1999 after taking a prison teacher hostage for almost two days. As far as bodyweight exercises and prison workouts go, there aren’t many that build significant muscle tone.Although it’s not something I can personally follow or recommend, it was interesting to see his plan for those of us on the outside. Near the end there's an entire chapter dedicated to "the solitary organ" 😂 with a 9 point tip on the jelq technique.

The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment or for professional financial advice. For a man who has such unbelievable feats of strength he does not expect too much; burpees, star jumps, squats, sit ups, press ups, they make up the exercises you undergo over the thirty day workout. I only remembered about this book towards the end of the lockdown but either way thought it could be an interesting read.Just the thought of Charles Bronson alone in his solitary confinement cell pumping out star jumps is a strange vision, but don’t let the image fool you, star jumps are a great example of cardio and strength movements working together. According to Solitary Fitness, he performs hundreds, if not thousands every day using the bed in his cell as a step-up box. What it does – You will feel all sorts of things going on in your throat, chest, lungs and abdominal muscles, even your back will tingle, but primarily this will give you abdominal strength. It also has pictures of different muscles that the book references in the exercises so you know where it is supposed to feel while working out.

Now is the perfect time to get yourself back into shape by steering clear of the temptations we regularly face in our day-to-day lives. While in jail in 2001, he married his second wife, Fatema Saira Rehman, a Bangladeshi-born divorcée who inspired him to convert to Islam and take the name of Charles Ali Ahmed. On multiple occasions Bronson expressed his disdain towards steroid use (keep in mind the goal of this program is to get fit, not big and muscular), yet it boggles my mind when I look at the woman (“Storm”) who models the exercises in this book, let’s just say she hasn’t been skipping any meals. There are pictures of workouts, but only one for each workout and sometimes you look on the wrong picture or read the wrong text because of the books formatting. Your belly (abdomen) is your centre: if you harden up your core (obliques), it will take you through a lot of problems later.It won’t be easy, getting ripped without equipment and with limited area availability can tough, but it isn’t impossible.