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Right, a lot of the so-called professionals of the fitness game are gonna tell you my regime is based on multi-thousands of press-ups and sit-ups per day, and that this book is gonna be based on that … bollocks! Those armchair critics couldn’t push out one, never mind ten push-ups; they just want you to keep them company … If people like this are holding you back, they’re not your friends. Get rid of them coz they’re negative, what I call lemons! Look, even the England manager has his footballers doing basic exercises. I bet you don’t get Beckham telling his gaffer he don’t want to push out ten burpees coz it would spoil his hairdo!

In order to meet the stages in this book, you’ll have to faithfully follow my directions. Some of the seasoned athletes among you are going to push on and start at page 100 or wherever … Ha, ha! That’s no use, as this book is structured in a way that you cannot just go through it page by page. You and they would feel uncomfortable doing so; your body needs acclimatising to my altitude before I can take you to those heights, so be warned!

My workout (not yours at this stage) really starts from the time I get out of bed; I bury my head deep in a bowl full of cold water, then I’ll blow out a quick 100 press-ups just to get the heart pumping. Being in solitary I have to keep my mind active so I will pace up and down my cell and every minute I drop and I do 50 press-ups and then jot it down on a piece of paper. You will be amazed how it adds up. Some days I will push 3,000–6,000 press-ups. It sounds inhuman, amazing, but remember, it’s killing time for me; it’s my buzz! Another day, I will do sit-ups and then squats, and so on. Obviously, you on the outside don’t have the time I’ve got, so you will have to work out a routine of when best to do it, and where to do it, if you wish to follow exactly as I do, but not yet! I’d say do it in the garden. Get a nice mat and you can walk up and down the garden and drop every so often to do your workout as I do in my cell. When I’m bored I will do some shadow boxing for speed and reflexes. I will skip and jog on the spot, I will do some dynamics. I use a towel for this: I just pull at it behind my back and in front; you can feel it pulling at your muscles, stretching – it’s a good way of building up. But not yet …

Sundays, I relax … do nothing. Then on Monday I am raring to go. When I was up in Hull Jail I had access to a gym for the first time in years. I walked in and put 120kg (2.2lb = 1kg) on the bar – an Olympic bar – and bench pressed it ten times! An Olympic bar weighs 10kg, so the total was 130kg. So what does that tell you? My way keeps you strong, fit as well. The cons had been in the gym for years and years, and even they could not do it. I had just blown away all the fitness magazines and manuals, and I do it all on porridge!