We’ll this has been a busy year so far and a positively productive one. I found my illustrious mystery guitar and it plays like a dream. The weather has been in our favor but most importantly my fitness is of the Richter scale.

I’ve slowly been accumulated significant change in every aspect of my life. All the bad habits have been disappearing or have been gone for months. To the point I don’t even remember how long it’s been. It feels good. I figure if you’re still counting then it still invokes your mind somewhere. I hate to say the real progression was because of getting in an accident last October, but I’m not going lie it scared the shit out of me and hurt like hell. I woke up the next day changed; there was no discussion on the matter.

One of the things I’ve found though is bodyweight training. Basically using REAL calisthenics to work out. Short of a pull-up bar and maybe a stall mat to keep you off the floor, you really don’t need a damn thing. On a side-note, I love cow-stall mats, not used though. I have no use for sow stained rubber, but the new ones are freaking fantastic. I’d cover my entire house if I could, the 4×6 ones, awesome sauce. That aside though this bodyweight training thing is wicked.

I remember thinking about how in the hell did people train before gyms? When people had no “equipment” for generations; how did they look incredible, if not borderline scary. There were no protein powders, power bars, creatinywiener and 5 million other supplements. None of it, I’m not knocking it but I’m just saying there is more than one way to a destination and some of the realest strongmen of our time went that route. I mean look at Laocoön, was he supplemented out the ass?

Regardless though, I’ve found strength again that I never knew I had. I’m stronger than I’ve ever been and I can hold my own. The muscle and tendon strength that comes from this is incredible. Cardio is improving but still nowhere where I’ll have it. I’m a few months in on all this but not rushed. Patience is key. I’ve been on the fence about writing any of it because of judgments on subjects like this is thrown around like grass at a Snoop convention. So I gave it a few months, I’m beyond the 1 phase dropout and I’m kicking ass.

The clarity, which comes within days if not day one that you can get from a healthy way of life, is incredible. After some heavy cardio, a high exists that no drug can perform. Everything improves around you. It’s like breaking out of a shell. Things that have nothing to do with health improve. Anyways I wanted to share it; you’ll probably here more about it. For those interested it’s all came from “Convict Conditioning” a book written by a guy that spent 20 years in the hole and found a unique path. The title is gimmicky but the data is real. He didn’t invent this stuff, just gathered it over the years in the joint and put it in a progressive state that allows an individual to keep moving up after you’ve reached the end parameters of the book. It’s good stuff. My world is 100% different than it was 5 months ago and I like it. Your strength is your survival in prison and if you think most REAL prisons have primo gyms, you’re an idiot and probably deserve to be slapped in the face with a corncob. There is a goal though and that goal is to complete a Tough Mudder, if you don’t know, then Google it. Then marathons, yes plural. Welcome to my world.