One of the reasons a officer had given me was that dudes in prison have basically all day to work out...not including lifting...whereas you and me...or even a cop, don't. So, when they get out, and if you have ever seen dudes when they get of out prison---these dudes are cut the hell up and big as shit...Advantage: Criminal
now, do you get what I was saying?
That's kind of an old 'wives tale'... you can read about where that started "back in the day" -- check out the book "Cop" by Middleton.
Supposedly these guys would get so huge that you couldn't cuff their hands behind their backs. These stories defy everything that is being done and told these days.
All attributed to lifting heavy weights all day long.
I would say these guys probably got a lot stronger and more cut with a little more size, but that whole thing about coming out of prison looking like Ronnie Coleman on the Olympia stage just seems so far-fetched. (I know it wasn't said here)- but that was the general consensus.
You figure what really happened was these guys went into prison as twinks. They got noticeably more "fit" and of course, bigger, but not to where they wouldn't fit in cars and couldnt move about.
If that is what really happens, then why don't we see it?
I would love to see pictures of these past "menaces to society" that managed to get weight lifting ousted from the State Prison Systems.
Even in Pumping Iron, when Arnie went to visit and kiss those inmates, there wasnt anyone that was huge beyond belief.
In that movie with Adam Sandler and the football team all prisoned up, they basically relive the whole "jacked-beyond-belief" scenario.
The prison guards are the ones depicted as using steroids. I think one guy actually reaches into his locker and grabs a bottle that just say's "steroids' on it... only to have those pills replaced with estrogen later.
I've looked for old time pics (60's and 70's) for the whole huge inmate scenario, can't find any proof.
Don't worry about critiquing my post, I'm in "falling asleep" mode. (Obviously...)