Title: No Equipment? No Problem! Get Jailhouse Jacked With Bodyweight Training
Headings: No Equipment? No Problem! Get Jailhouse Jacked With Bodyweight Training
No Equipment? No Problem! Get Jailhouse Jacked With Bodyweight Training
The "Get Jacked with Bodyweight Training" Workout
1. Juarez Valley 15 (Diamond Push-Up/Burpee)
2. Tabata-Style Lunge
3. Juarez Valley 20 (Bodyweight Squat/Jump Squat)
4. Laid-Back Head Nods
5. Inverted Biceps Row
All You Need Is You
About the Author
Josh Bryant, MS, CSCS

Content: But, society doesn't exactly celebrate men who undergo these transformations. In fact, the California Penal System completely banned weights from correctional facilities in 1992, with most state prison systems following soon after. Within a few years, jailhouse "weight piles" were a thing of the fabled past in the United States. You might think these bans curtailed the era of jailhouse hypertrophy, but nothing could be further from the truth! Today's inmates are bigger, leaner, and harder, even with the less-than-wholesome foods they are fed. They do it by using the one weight nobody can take away, their body weight. Some prisoners say that when you're behind bars, you watch to see who rises to be a predator and who is left as prey. In that environment, they say, you either get big or die. With no weights available, prisoners have developed highly effective and extensive bodyweight-only bodybuilding methods to build functional hypertrophy. In our book "Jailhouse Strong," Adam benShea and I extensively describe these methods.