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What do you want? How do you want to achieve it? How far are you determined to get it, coz nothing comes from nothing. To get a body how you want it takes a lot of hard work and when you get it you have to work at maintaining it! But you will enjoy that part. So search, decide and work at it! Don’t overstep your goal coz, I’ll tell you now, the Arnies of the world really are pumped-up freaks! Sorry, Arnie, but basically that’s all you are. It’s not only unnatural, it’s bloody ridiculous. You guys are never happy: if you’ve 20-inch biceps, you then want 21-inch – it all becomes very silly!

As I keep telling people, it’s your heart that counts, so look after the ticker … Make staying alive your sole aim. Strip off, look in the mirror – what needs to be worked on? Concentrate on what you see and then make it your business to change it. Within a month on my programme you’ll see a real difference, big time! You’ll look and feel 100 times better. You don’t need a gym or weights, or expensive bikes and rowing machines – it’s all a joke! Stop throwing your money away on objects you don’t need.

Did cavemen use weights? Did Hercules or Samson use a gym?

Did they take steroids or swallow pills? Did they bollocks!

Look back in time at some of the great strong men – to mention one, ‘Eugene Sandown’ … well, did he abuse his body?

Being in solitary I am denied access to a gym and not allowed to mix, so I am on my own at all times. I get one hour out of my cell (or cage depending on which prison I’m in) a day to exercise out on the yard, which is a cage 20 x 30ft long! This is my arena; I am the Gladiator! I work out under the sky in the rain, snow, wind and sun in all weathers, six days of every week (religiously) and my routine works: I am a strong and powerful man. On rare occasions when I’m allowed out on the yard with fellow cons, I pick them up. I use them as human weights (of course, with their permission, unless it’s a governor). I also get them up on my back and run with them, two at a time. I squat with them, I bench press them – ‘bench press’ for you novices means lying on your back and pushing a weight from your chest upwards! So I am strong, do not doubt it. My strength is legendary – I once picked up a prison governor and ran with him.

In my hour in the cage under the sky I will do press-ups, squats, stretching, sit-ups, bunny hops, star jumps and I will jog around in between. I do all this to get my heart pumping and I also time every workout, but the most important part of the workout is to enjoy what you do. I laugh a lot. I love it, it’s my life! I’m a max-secure inmate. Cameras and guards constantly monitor me. I am 54 years of age, remember, and I am as fast now as I was at 30 years of age. I am 5ft 10½in tall and weigh in at 230 pounds of solid muscle. If I hit you, I’ll deform your looks. I can hit a man 20 times in four seconds! I can push 132 press-ups in 60 seconds – can Arnie do the same?