What running / exercise can one do to stay in shape in jail?

I've been liking these ab workouts lately -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q89MwOlSuhg

Also look at yoga exercises but don't let anyone see you doing weird stuff.

Pushups, military pushups, ab cycles (3-4 times per day)...

if you can't run, then make it your weight training period. running a lot of miles makes it difficult to grow much stronger at the same time, but by doing plyometrics at the same time, you can get the aerobic work. You can do jumps, for instance, without a jump rope to get that aerobic conditioning, along with burpees, etc. If you can run short distances, fartleks and wind sprints/strides are the thing to do. Free the body and the mind will follow, as one of the inmates in the Jericho Mile says.

adfsjaks;ldfha;k wrote:

it won't be like what you see on tv. The first 72 hours you'll be unlock down. 2 guys to a cell and only 1/2 hour out of the cell into a common area a day. You won't be able to do any exercise there outside of pushups. More than likely you'll bunk with someone coming down from some drug.

Then you'll be in general pop. but it's not like prison where you have free roam. I was locked into a dorm which roomed 32 mates. Only 1 hour outside ever other day. Other than pacing back and forth in the dorm you won't be able to work your legs. pushups and such are the only option there as well.

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More or less correct - YMMV depending on how the sheriff of your county runs his jail.

It is possible to do legs - bodyweight squats, jump squats, pistol squats, wall sits, and burpees will give you a good lower body workout.

This has slowly become the most interesting thread of day.

All the best, OP.

Hi Jamin!

How are you morans ending up in jail.? You make it sound about like getting a stress fracture.

How in the f wrote:

How are you morans ending up in jail.? You make it sound about like getting a stress fracture.

You must be knew hear but experienced at jail routine then.

I smell criminals here.

We walked laps around the table in the indoor common area. On the table there was a deck of Uno cards. On each lap you drew a card and did how many ever pushups were on the card for that lap.They weren't big laps, but we tried to walk fairly quickly to get our heart rates up.

You'll likely get something like an hour a day of exercise time in the yard, but it depends on where you are and the weather.

Good luck,man. Be glad that it's only a month.

What are all the crimes everyone has done to warrant these sentences? I'm so curious now.

Got pulled over with 27 lbs of weed.

Nothing lol. You'll be half-asleep reading boring sci books donated by the public library. Gotta love the American "Correctional" system.

jamin wrote:

Nothing lol. You'll be half-asleep reading boring sci books donated by the public library. Gotta love the American "Correctional" system.

It is a little worse than that Jamin. There are people for whom jail is order, 3 meals a day, a bed, structure, their own space - all things missing in their lives. Even they do not want to be there. For the people that have something in their life that they miss in jail it is hard and they do not want to be there. For most people, their women do not wait - they lose their jobs, their girls, visiting their kids, a choice of food or beverage, what time to wake up, what to wear, etc even choosing when to eat, and time compounds this lots of time to just think that you alone are responsible for being there.

Never seen anyone truly relax and enjoy time incarcerated. Most get anxiety and problems.

People work out or read to distract themselves from their situation but after the distraction you always are right back where you were.

Kinda like you date a woman sometimes but after the date you are alone again, still slow, and not as clever as you think.

Gonna do the time wrote:

Gotta do 30 days in jail. No argument about it.

What can I do to stay in shape in that 30 days? Right now I plan to pack mileage and hard workouts into 2 weeks before then recover week 1 in jail. But what can I do the next 23 days? Would essentially running in place and/or plyometrics for 2 hours twice a day be my best hope?

Appreciate any insight from anyone with knowledge or people stuck in a hotel room equivalent.

Go to prison as a tight end , leave prison as a wide receiver.

And that would bother him?

Jericho Miler wrote:

Go watch the documentary, The Jericho Mile. A guy worked himself into sub-4 shape in prison.

Near WR shape. Faster than the Olympic champion. Goals the OP can set. He may well run that fast staying ahead of the prisoners who want to love him dusk to dawn.

reality of incarceration wrote:

Never seen anyone truly relax and enjoy time incarcerated.

I was not suggesting that it's enjoyable; I was saying, based on a tiny sentence I've served, that it's boring and a waste of taxpayer money. There's got to be a better way of dealing with criminal offenders than "warehousing" them and/or making them cough up large sums of money. Or maybe the government isn't interested in actually solving problems? ;)

jamin wrote:

reality of incarceration wrote:

Never seen anyone truly relax and enjoy time incarcerated.

I was not suggesting that it's enjoyable; I was saying, based on a tiny sentence I've served, that it's boring and a waste of taxpayer money. There's got to be a better way of dealing with criminal offenders than "warehousing" them and/or making them cough up large sums of money. Or maybe the government isn't interested in actually solving problems? ;)

What is a waste is people like you who can't follow the rules of society then complain about how you are dealt with. Lots of problems with jail and the system, would you prefer a death sentence or a demerit point on your permanent record?

It's supposed to be boring.

Since you haven't been back, I guess incarceration either deterred your recidivism or you've been lucky.

So you are an example that it works. And that you used taxpayer money that could have been used elsewhere but wasn't due to your criminal selfish behavior and conduct.