Hi,
Just discovered these forums and was wondering if any other 80/10/10ers are also using the Convict Conditioning bodyweight strength program. I've been at it a year myself and loving it so far. I gained about a stone of muscle last year and still going strong. Would be interesting to hear of others' experiences!
Thanks.

You might say I do convict conditioning, at least Mississippi state convict conditioning!

I am working to expand my vegetable and fruit tree growing areas. Since my land is 75% rocks and 25% soil, I have to filter rocks. I use a 4-wheeled cart with 2 large tubs on it with 2 differing size filters. One filters out walkway-creating size gravel rocks and the first filters out all rocks from dirt. The dirt goes back to my proposed growing area eventually to a depth of 12 inches. So I spend all day lifting heavy buckets of soil and rocks to wherever they go! Truly convict conditioning.

Recently my new energy on 811 outweighed my muscle capacity and I spent an evening of misery with muscles so sore they were screaming! So I am learning moderation!

I could use someone with your strength to build soil. All of this country (US) needs strong human bodies to improve the ecology. The whole nation is overgrazed from animal-eating lust and the poor nutrition due to corporate-produced fruits and vegetables as well as meat/dairy has created a nation of idiots. It is very hard to find any food--meat, dairy, fruit, or vegetable worth eating, both flavor wise and nutrition wise. It is going to take a lot of strong bodies to correct the situation with terracing to stop the loss of topsoil and spreading animal manures from the horrible pits near feedlots to pasture lands to restart the growth of topsoil. All of this will have to be accomplished by the few survivors of the future, which will probably all be 811ers!

I haven't done that specific program before, but just may try it. I like bodyweight exercises. I'll let you know how it goes when I do!

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Aloha!

-Janie

Carwoodd, I share your concerns. It sounds at least as though you have some land there, which I envy - the most I can grow of my own at the moment is a few herbs.
It's strange that people believe they must eat animal products to build strength - actually the greater part of it is neural adaptations!

Hey, Banquo, I do have some land passed on to me by my parents, dirt-poor Texas farmers/ranchers. They started out with a Jersey cow dairy until "safe" laws, i.e., pasteurization and the corporations took over the food of the country, i.e., Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture, "get big or get out!" Then they turned to raising beef cattle. So a lot of my childhood was listening to mother cows bawl for a week for their calves. I had good food as a child, but then went off to be a "city slicker" and ate SAD. Although the German-immigrant farming community ate better than city dwellers, all of the women in middle age grew obese and I am pretty sure it was the animals they ate. Most all of the women grew their own produce and ate the meat from grass-fed animals so that is what made me wonder about current thinking concerning back-to-the-land meat-eating!

Thinking I would just do 811 until I lost the weight since I needed to cut fat to lose weight, I am amazed at all its benefits besides losing weight. I just had to buy a new pair of slacks and found, to my complete, absolute delight from 3X to now, I can wear comfortably size 16!!! A size I last wore in my 40s. I now once again put in a full day's work and I accomplish so much. I am starting my spring garden early because of climate change hoping to have production in April.

I have found that there is no comparison between grocery store produce versus my garden produce in terms of taste, even organic produce from the store. I hope to grow all my produce so I have on order lots of melon and watermelon seeds as well as other fruit normally called vegetables.

I was out of bananas for 3 weeks and, when I went to the stores, I can tell my body really loves bananas because the first banana I tore into was so good.

I have no loss of strength only more and more of it.

There are lots of mini-gardens on wheels called grow boxes. They are 8 inches deep (minimum for most root systems) and can grow some serious vegetables. Then there is guerrilla gardening where you find an unused vacant lot and start growing! As shipping costs increase, it will be important to start building the knowledge to "grow your own!"

As my future supply of bananas, if the weather continues as warm here as it was this winter, it won't be long before I can grow bananas!

Hi Banquo!
I'm just getting started with Convict Conditioning and it's great to hear about your progress!!
Could you give us a little more detail on your experience of it, did you find it easy / challenging, any plateaus? blocking points? Advice...?
Did you do it to the letter or tweaked it a little?
Would love to hear about what you can do now as bodyweight feats compared to a year ago!

cheers!
Jerome