Explosive Calisthenics (Convict Conditioning) by Paul Wade
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Explosive Calisthenics (Convict Conditioning) by Paul Wade
First things first: Who the hell am I to be teaching you how to build incredible bodyweight power
and speed?
Fair question. My name is Paul Wade, and it’s probably more helpful to tell you what I’m not—I’m
not a certified personal trainer; I’m not a famous champion athlete; and I’m sure as damn not some
scientist with a million PhDs who wrote a doctorate on nerve transmissions and their relationship
to plyometric overload. (Woah! I impressed myself there. A little.)
I’m not disrespecting any of these folks I mentioned. They all have their own types of knowledge,
in many ways superior to mine. If you want to buy books by men and women like that, there are
plenty. But my education was very different. I learned what I learned about bodyweight training from
close to twenty years of obsessive workouts spread out in American institutions like San Quentin,
LSP (“the Alcatraz of the South”), and USP Marion. (If you understand jails, that probably sounds
like a weird spread. It might make more sense if you understand that I was initially incarcerated for
possession plus intent to manufacture, and later trafficking across state lines, which is a federal
offense.)
First things first: Who the hell am I to be teaching you how to build incredible bodyweight power
and speed?
Fair question. My name is Paul Wade, and it’s probably more helpful to tell you what I’m not—I’m
not a certified personal trainer; I’m not a famous champion athlete; and I’m sure as damn not some
scientist with a million PhDs who wrote a doctorate on nerve transmissions and their relationship
to plyometric overload. (Woah! I impressed myself there. A little.)
I’m not disrespecting any of these folks I mentioned. They all have their own types of knowledge,
in many ways superior to mine. If you want to buy books by men and women like that, there are
plenty. But my education was very different. I learned what I learned about bodyweight training from
close to twenty years of obsessive workouts spread out in American institutions like San Quentin,
LSP (“the Alcatraz of the South”), and USP Marion. (If you understand jails, that probably sounds
like a weird spread. It might make more sense if you understand that I was initially incarcerated for
possession plus intent to manufacture, and later trafficking across state lines, which is a federal
offense.)
