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Convict Conditioning: Ultimate Bodyweight Training Log
The Convict Conditioning Ultimate Bodyweight Training Log is the first-ever training log designed specifically for bodyweight athletes.
Other logs are structured to contain sections where you detail the amount of weight you used, the type of equipment or machine
you worked out on, even what your heart-rate was and what vitamins you took today. You won’t find any of this
distracting information in this log. It’s a log for pure, unadulterated, hardcore bodyweight training. We provide the inspiration
and the structure—you provide the perspiration and bloody-mindedness to seize the plan and
make it happen.
Other logs are structured to contain sections where you detail the amount of weight you used, the type of equipment or machine
you worked out on, even what your heart-rate was and what vitamins you took today. You won’t find any of this
distracting information in this log. It’s a log for pure, unadulterated, hardcore bodyweight training. We provide the inspiration
and the structure—you provide the perspiration and bloody-mindedness to seize the plan and
make it happen.
- GenresFitness
290 pages, ebook
First published December 1, 2012
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May 16, 2021
This is a must have for bodyweight workouts! Each sheet has what exercise you do and the reps, it's that simple. Each page has a "daily tip of advice" that includes such topics as "On Rest Between Sets", "On Nutrition", and "On Shin Training" just as a few examples. The journal has the list of workout plans (New Blood, Veterano, Lockdown) that are taken from the first Convict Conditioning. Also the book gives you an abbreviated progression chart for each of the Big Six Exercises. For a serious student of bodyweight exercises, this journal will only help you track your progress and give sound advice.
The book's last advice is "On Moving On:
"All 'systems'--no matter how good--are ultimately prisons. They are confining for the mind and the body. Convict Conditioning is no different. Spend time with the system, absorb what it has to teach. When the time comes for you to change your training, or develop further in a different direction, you must do so. There is no `dogma' in Convict Conditioning. Eventually all students will evolve beyond it, and build their own 'system' to live in for a while."
Highly recommended from Dragon Door Publishing. Thanks!
The book's last advice is "On Moving On:
"All 'systems'--no matter how good--are ultimately prisons. They are confining for the mind and the body. Convict Conditioning is no different. Spend time with the system, absorb what it has to teach. When the time comes for you to change your training, or develop further in a different direction, you must do so. There is no `dogma' in Convict Conditioning. Eventually all students will evolve beyond it, and build their own 'system' to live in for a while."
Highly recommended from Dragon Door Publishing. Thanks!
July 13, 2018
Немного коробит стиль изложения - как для соседа по камере, мол мы крутые чуваки..
Я читал не слишком качественный русский перевод, который, возможно, это усиливал, хотя я и заглянул в оригинал и вроде так именно в таком стиле, разве что воспринимается мягче именно мной, как русскоязычным человеком, которого английский уголовный стиль разговора не напрягает, потому что слышал его только в фильмах и не воспринимаешь как непосредственную угрозу для тебя лично.
Если отвлечься от стиля - отлично. Автору, конечно, не хватает теоретической базы, но у него богатая практика в роли тренера.
На первый взгляд все выглядит очень систематично и правдоподобно.
Правда, конкретно у меня прогресс пока не виден, но я пытаюсь делать эти упражнения недолго.
Очень импонирует возможность получить запредельные нагрузки без сверхтяжелых и опасных штанг. И при желании заниматься и на улице, а не в фитнес-клубе.
Самое важное в книге - разложенные по простым ступеням прогрессии, как совершенствоваться. Без этого просто не было бы смысла - крутых видео, "смотри, как я могу" полно и на youtube, вопрос - как лично тебе выйти на этот уровень.
Я читал не слишком качественный русский перевод, который, возможно, это усиливал, хотя я и заглянул в оригинал и вроде так именно в таком стиле, разве что воспринимается мягче именно мной, как русскоязычным человеком, которого английский уголовный стиль разговора не напрягает, потому что слышал его только в фильмах и не воспринимаешь как непосредственную угрозу для тебя лично.
Если отвлечься от стиля - отлично. Автору, конечно, не хватает теоретической базы, но у него богатая практика в роли тренера.
На первый взгляд все выглядит очень систематично и правдоподобно.
Правда, конкретно у меня прогресс пока не виден, но я пытаюсь делать эти упражнения недолго.
Очень импонирует возможность получить запредельные нагрузки без сверхтяжелых и опасных штанг. И при желании заниматься и на улице, а не в фитнес-клубе.
Самое важное в книге - разложенные по простым ступеням прогрессии, как совершенствоваться. Без этого просто не было бы смысла - крутых видео, "смотри, как я могу" полно и на youtube, вопрос - как лично тебе выйти на этот уровень.
March 4, 2017
Overall the advice, pictures, and stories included in this are fairly good but alot of the book is taken up by log pages (reasonable since this is supposed to be a training log and a good training log is important).
The log is organized so each day of training should take up a page and each line in the log lets you write down the exercise you did and how many reps (or seconds) you did on each set. With some space on the top for the date and more space on the bottom to take notes and comments (which I should probably do more of myself). However since I only do one group of exercises every day (i.e. following the "Veterano" program) I find that one page a day seems like overkill, I usually just keep track of the couple exercises I did on a blank piece of paper with one or two lines representing a day's exercise with extra columns for my weight and what other exercise I did that day (i.e. basketball or Aikido). I think I'll continue to do that rather than use the log in the book. Later on the book it has a page where you track your weight each week which seems reasonable design choice.
The book also has extra pages for making goals, keeping track of your weekly weight, and keeping track of your personal records and some nice crib sheets of the training progressions of the first Convict Conditioning books as well as nice Calisthenics Anatomy section which lists which bodyweight exercises work which muscle groups. Doesn't include any crib sheets of the training progressions in Convict Conditioning 2 but some of the advice does reference exercises in that book.
The log is organized so each day of training should take up a page and each line in the log lets you write down the exercise you did and how many reps (or seconds) you did on each set. With some space on the top for the date and more space on the bottom to take notes and comments (which I should probably do more of myself). However since I only do one group of exercises every day (i.e. following the "Veterano" program) I find that one page a day seems like overkill, I usually just keep track of the couple exercises I did on a blank piece of paper with one or two lines representing a day's exercise with extra columns for my weight and what other exercise I did that day (i.e. basketball or Aikido). I think I'll continue to do that rather than use the log in the book. Later on the book it has a page where you track your weight each week which seems reasonable design choice.
The book also has extra pages for making goals, keeping track of your weekly weight, and keeping track of your personal records and some nice crib sheets of the training progressions of the first Convict Conditioning books as well as nice Calisthenics Anatomy section which lists which bodyweight exercises work which muscle groups. Doesn't include any crib sheets of the training progressions in Convict Conditioning 2 but some of the advice does reference exercises in that book.
December 19, 2016
★ - Most books with this rating I never finish and so don't make this list. This one I probably started speed-reading to get it over with.
★★ - Average. Wasn't terrible, but not a lot to recommend it. Probably skimmed parts of it.
★★★ - Decent. A few good ideas, well-written passages, interesting characters, or the like.
★★★★ - Good. This one had parts that inspired me, impressed me, made me laugh out loud, made me think - it got positive reactions and most of the rest of it was pretty decent too.
★★★★★ - Amazing. This is the best I've read of its genre, the ones I hold on to so I can re-read them and/or loan them out to people looking for a great book. The best of these change the way I look at the world and operate within it.
★★ - Average. Wasn't terrible, but not a lot to recommend it. Probably skimmed parts of it.
★★★ - Decent. A few good ideas, well-written passages, interesting characters, or the like.
★★★★ - Good. This one had parts that inspired me, impressed me, made me laugh out loud, made me think - it got positive reactions and most of the rest of it was pretty decent too.
★★★★★ - Amazing. This is the best I've read of its genre, the ones I hold on to so I can re-read them and/or loan them out to people looking for a great book. The best of these change the way I look at the world and operate within it.
February 28, 2014
Awesome :o
June 17, 2014
The definite guide to progressive calisthenics for all athletes.
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