Workout of The Week 1

Juarez Valley & Prison Training

I wanted to start the workout of the weeks with something spicy. So here we go with the Juarez Valley method. I first heard about Juarez Valley from Josh Bryant a couple years ago. It originates, or at least is inspired in part, from workouts done in penitentiaries.

Equipment is often limited in many prisons and there isn’t much you can do during the day. Might as well get jacked.

You can use the Juarez valley method as a finisher or just as a stand alone bodyweight workout. It can be done with any bodyweight movement although doing it with pushups is most common.

How to do it:

Do 10 pushups

Walk a few feet

Do 1 pushup

Walk a few feet back

Do 9 pushups

Walk a few feet

Do 2 pushups…

You walk back and forth like you’re in a prison cell starting with 10 pushups on one side of your prison cell and 1 pushup on the other side of the cell. You go down from 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 reps on one side and up from 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 reps.

This is a Juarez 10, you can do a Juarez 5 or 7 at first if it’s too difficult. A Juarez 5 would start with 5 and 1 instead of 10 and 1, and a Juarez 7 starts with 7 and 1. This is a difficult method especially as a finisher but it provides a pretty juicy chest pump.

Here is the original video from Josh Bryant: