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Biography

Born into a wealthy family of Eira and Joe Peterson in a small town in Wales. Uncle future legend criminal world was mayor of the city for two consecutive terms: from 1960 to 1970. Unlike other criminals, Michael's childhood was not violent or terrible tragedy, which could influence his personality. He loved going to school, studied well, was polite to others and loved ones, and had many friends. His aunt believed that it all started with the move of a young family, after which, she believes, he fell under the influence of bad company. After changing his name to the more sonorous name of Hollywood actor Charles Bronson, he began to participate in fist fights. He also worked for about a year at the Mini-house escort service chain. At the age of 19, he married a woman named Irene, with whom he had a son, Michael. Some time later, he took up sports and, having pumped up his muscles, began performing in the circus. Despite this, at the age of 26 he goes to prison for the first time for armed robbery, after which his wife divorces him. In the future, he will visit about 120 English correctional institutions.

Crimes

His most famous crime was the 1974 post office robbery, in which he stole £26.18. He was sentenced to 7 years, but due to regular violation of the regime he is still in prison for 36 years, of which 32 years in solitary confinement. In 1988 he was arrested for robbery, in 1992 he was released, and three weeks later he was arrested again for preparing a new robbery. In prison he became famous for fights with guards. One day he thickly smeared his body with oil, and then attacked the prison guards naked. A cellmate named Taran Vladimir prepared him for this attack; he personally oiled him and undressed him. He inflicted several serious injuries on the guards before the special forces unit, alerted, was able to neutralize him.

During the time he was in prison, Bronson managed to become famous as an artist and poet. And he even received awards for his work, and donated part of the money from the sale of his work to charity. In October 1996, he took his lawyer Robert Taylor hostage, but released him after 30 minutes. The lawyer did not press charges. In 1998, he took several Iraqis hostage at Belmarsh prison. He ordered the hostages to call him General and threatened to eat one of them if his demands were not met. And later he ordered one of the hostages to beat himself when he couldn’t, he inflicted injuries on himself, after which he demanded a helicopter that would take him to Cuba, an Uzi machine gun, 5 thousand rounds of ammunition and an ax. At the trial he declared that he was as guilty as and Adolf Hitler. In February 1999, Woodhill maximum security prison, due to the presence of three dangerous prisoners: Charles Bronson, Reginald Wilson and Robert Maudsley, and in order to ensure the safety of other prisoners, was created special unit.

During his final sentence, Bronson captured prison teacher Phil Danielson, tied him up with rope, and held him for 44 hours. Danielson became a victim of Bronson because he criticized his drawings. Tried to electrocute himself with washing machine filled with water. In 2007, two Sutton prison guards broke Bronson's glasses while trying to prevent another hostage incident. He was then paid compensation in the amount of £200.

Personal life

Michael Peterson has been married twice. For the first time, on a native of Great Britain, with whom she had a son. The second time, already being a famous prisoner. His future wife, 33-year-old Saira Ali Ahmed, a native of Bangladesh, saw his photo in the newspaper, after which she began corresponding with him. They met 10 times and were married in June 2001 at Woodhill, a maximum security prison. After which Peterson again changed his name, this time to Charles Ali Ahmet, and converted to Islam. After 4 years they divorced. His wife gave numerous interviews about their short marriage, describing him as a racist and a cunning, evil criminal.

Movie

On May 13, 2009, the film “Bronson” premiered in Britain, based on the life of Michael Peterson. Main role performed by Tom Hardy, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.

Public

There is a Bronson freedom movement in the UK.

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Only when Bennigsen entered the hut did Kutuzov move out of his corner and move towards the table, but so much so that his face was not illuminated by the candles placed on the table.
Bennigsen opened the council with the question: “Should we leave the sacred and ancient capital of Russia without a fight or defend it?” A long and general silence followed. All faces frowned, and in the silence one could hear Kutuzov’s angry grunting and coughing. All eyes were looking at him. Malasha also looked at her grandfather. She was closest to him and saw how his face wrinkled: he was definitely about to cry. But this did not last long.
– The sacred ancient capital of Russia! - he suddenly spoke, repeating Bennigsen’s words in an angry voice and thereby pointing out the false note of these words. - Let me tell you, Your Excellency, that this question makes no sense for a Russian person. (He leaned forward with his heavy body.) Such a question cannot be asked, and such a question has no meaning. The question for which I asked these gentlemen to gather is a military question. The question is: “The salvation of Russia is in the army. Is it more profitable to risk the loss of the army and Moscow by accepting a battle, or to give up Moscow without a battle? This is the question I want to know your opinion on.” (He rocked back into his chair.)
The debate began. Bennigsen did not yet consider the game lost. Admitting the opinion of Barclay and others about the impossibility of accepting a defensive battle near Fili, he, imbued with Russian patriotism and love for Moscow, proposed transferring troops at night from the right to the left flank and striking the next day on the right wing of the French. Opinions were divided, there were disputes in favor and against this opinion. Ermolov, Dokhturov and Raevsky agreed with Bennigsen’s opinion. Whether guided by a sense of need for sacrifice before leaving the capital or by other personal considerations, these generals did not seem to understand that the present council could not change the inevitable course of affairs and that Moscow had already been abandoned. The rest of the generals understood this and, leaving aside the question of Moscow, talked about the direction that the army should have taken in its retreat. Malasha, who, without taking her eyes off, looked at what was happening in front of her, understood the meaning of this advice differently. It seemed to her that it was only a matter of personal struggle between “grandfather” and “long-haired,” as she called Bennigsen. She saw that they were angry when they spoke to each other, and in her heart she sided with her grandfather. In the middle of the conversation, she noticed a quick sly glance thrown by her grandfather at Bennigsen, and after that, to her joy, she noticed that the grandfather, having said something to the long-haired man, besieged him: Bennigsen suddenly blushed and walked angrily around the hut. The words that had such an effect on Bennigsen were Kutuzov’s opinion expressed in a calm and quiet voice about the benefits and disadvantages of Bennigsen’s proposal: about transferring troops at night from the right to the left flank to attack the right wing of the French.
“I, gentlemen,” said Kutuzov, “cannot approve of the count’s plan.” Troop movements close to the enemy are always dangerous, and military history confirms this idea. So, for example... (Kutuzov seemed to be thoughtful, looking for an example and looking at Bennigsen with a bright, naive look.) But at least the Battle of Friedland, which, as I think the count remembers well, was... not entirely successful only because our troops were reforming at too close a distance from the enemy... - A moment of silence followed, which seemed to everyone to be very long.
The debate resumed again, but there were frequent breaks, and it was felt that there was nothing more to talk about.
During one of these breaks, Kutuzov sighed heavily, as if getting ready to speak. Everyone looked at him.
- Eh bien, messieurs! Je vois que c"est moi qui payerai les pots casses, [So, gentlemen, therefore, I have to pay for the broken pots," he said. And, slowly rising, he approached the table. "Gentlemen, I have heard your opinions." Some will disagree with me. But I (he stopped) by the power entrusted to me by my sovereign and fatherland, I order a retreat.
Following this, the generals began to disperse with the same solemn and silent caution with which they disperse after a funeral.
Some of the generals, in a quiet voice, in a completely different range than when they spoke at the council, conveyed something to the commander-in-chief.
Malasha, who had been waiting for dinner for a long time, carefully came down from the floor with her bare feet, clinging to the ledges of the stove with her bare feet, and, getting mixed up between the legs of the generals, slipped through the door.
Having released the generals, Kutuzov sat for a long time, leaning on the table, and kept thinking about the same terrible question: “When, when was it finally decided that Moscow was abandoned? When was what was done that resolved the issue, and who is to blame for this?”
“I didn’t expect this, this,” he said to Adjutant Schneider, who came to him late at night, “I didn’t expect this!” I didn't think that!
“You need to rest, Your Grace,” said Schneider.
- No! “They will eat horse meat like the Turks,” Kutuzov shouted without answering, hitting the table with his plump fist, “they too will, if only...

In contrast to Kutuzov, at the same time, in an event even more important than the retreat of the army without a fight, in the abandonment of Moscow and its burning, Rostopchin, who appears to us as the leader of this event, acted completely differently.
This event - the abandonment of Moscow and its burning - was as inevitable as the retreat of the troops without a fight for Moscow after the Battle of Borodino.
Every Russian person, not on the basis of conclusions, but on the basis of the feeling that lies in us and lay in our fathers, could have predicted what happened.
Starting from Smolensk, in all the cities and villages of the Russian land, without the participation of Count Rastopchin and his posters, the same thing happened that happened in Moscow. The people blithely waited for the enemy, did not rebel, did not worry, did not tear anyone to pieces, but calmly waited for their fate, feeling the strength in themselves in the most difficult moment to find what they had to do. And as soon as the enemy approached, the richest elements of the population left, leaving their property; the poorest remained and set fire and destroyed what was left.
The consciousness that it will be so, and will always be so, lay and lies in the soul of the Russian person. And this consciousness and, moreover, the premonition that Moscow would be taken, lay in the Russian Moscow society of the 12th year. Those who began to leave Moscow back in July and early August showed that they were expecting this. Those who left with what they could seize, leaving their houses and half their property, acted this way due to that latent patriotism, which is expressed not by phrases, not by killing children to save the fatherland, etc. by unnatural actions, but which is expressed imperceptibly, simply, organically and therefore always produces the most powerful results.

The famous British criminal Charles Salvador (better known as Charles Bronson) has been serving his sentence since 1974.

During his decades in prison, Bronson became a fitness fanatic. He created a training program that uses only body weight and a few foreign objects.

Extreme Mode has given him near-superhuman strength: He says he can do 172 push-ups in 60 seconds, lift a pool table single-handedly and bend the door of a steel prison cell with his bare hands. He wrote down a large number of video of training from prison, and also set a record for push-ups per hour: 1727.

Bronson is not the only prisoner who has been able to develop impressive strength without access to a gym, nutritious food or nutritional supplements.

Prisoners around the world have developed highly effective exercises that they can perform in a small cell or in a prison yard. For strong men who went to prison we're talking about not only about aesthetics and personal development– sport acts as a deterrent to attack and is necessary for survival.

You can do them anywhere. Don't have time to go to the gym? Do you travel a lot? Arrested for 5-10 years? You can do this workout anywhere: bedroom, office, suite or solitary confinement.

It's free. Don't have money for a gym membership or to purchase your own equipment? This is not a reason not to exercise. With the help of several simple exercises, you can train all muscle groups completely free of charge.

Strength + cardio exercises in one workout. By increasing the tempo and decreasing the rest between sets and exercises, you can increase the intensity of your workout. This workout will only take 30 minutes.

Charles Bronson exercises

There are 6 basic exercises that involve the entire body. However, by slightly modifying each exercise, you can create over 50 different exercises from the 6 basic ones. If you were locked up for life, I'm sure you could come up with 50 more variations.

Push ups

According to a book he wrote in prison, Bronson does 2,000 push-ups a day. If you start doing 10 push-ups a day, and add 5 every day, you can reach this level in just over a year.

Push-up variations

Push-ups work several muscle groups, including the chest muscles, anterior deltoids, and triceps. Physical exercise can be easily modified to increase the difficulty and work different muscle groups.

Narrow / Wide hand position

You can engage different muscle groups simply by adjusting the placement of your hands. A narrow arm position works the triceps, while a wider arm position develops the chest muscles.

This is a dynamic full-body movement that develops strength and flexibility in the chest, shoulders, back, hips and triceps.

Get into a standing position with your feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Bend over and place your hands on the floor, keeping your arms and legs straight. You should look like an inverted "V". Your buttocks are at the top of the "V" and your head is pointing towards the ground.

To perform an Indian push-up, you need to make a sort of hovering motion. Move your head down and forward, bending your elbows. As your head approaches the ground, continue moving your torso forward, arching your back and lowering your hips. Your hips will now be next to your hands. Make sure your back is well stretched. Return to starting position and repeat.

You'll reach beast mode status when you can do one-armed push-ups.

Pull-ups

Pull-up - quite effective exercise, which involves a number of muscle groups, including the latissimus muscle (hereinafter referred to as the “wing” muscle on the back), biceps, pectoral muscles and forearms.

What's even better is that they can be made anywhere you can hang them. What to do if you are in a hotel? You can do pull-ups on the door frame if it's wide enough, although it will be more like doing finger pull-ups.

Pull-up options

Just like the push-up, the pull-up can be modified to target different muscle groups or make the exercise more challenging.

Keep your head up

Move your hand to a chin-up position and your biceps will work harder and your lats will work differently.

Cross arm pull-up

One hand grips the horizontal bar over the other hand.

Grab the horizontal bar with your hands different sides. raise your head on one side of the bar for one repetition, and then on the other side of the bar.

Narrow / Wide handle

You can vary your grip width to target different muscle groups. Try doing pull-ups with your hands very close or as far apart as you can.

Pull-ups on a towel

Hang two towels on the horizontal bar and grab one in each hand. Pull yourself up. Great for developing grip strength.

One-handed pull-up

You'll reach beast mode status when you can do multiple one-armed pull-ups.

Squats

The squat is one of the most basic yet effective athletic movements. In one exercise you work your quads, glutes, hips and inner thighs.

Squat Variations

Prisoner Squats

These squats are performed with your hands behind your head.

Add weight

If you don't have access to a barbell, you can find objects to place on your shoulders or hold in front of your chest. Just squat with the appropriate weight.

Jump squats

Perform the squat as usual, but when you reach the bottom, jump up as high as you can. When your feet hit the ground, immediately dive into the next squat and jump again.

This is a full squat on one leg. The leg that is not squatting is straightened forward during the exercise. When you're at the bottom of a squat, you look like a pistol, hence the name. It may take you several months to do this.

There are entire routines that will help you perform this herculean feat, but there is one exercise that will help you move directly to pistol squats.

Simply place a pole or some other strong object in front of you and squat on one leg. Use the pole to pull yourself up. Eventually, you will be able to do this squat without any aids.

During diving, the triceps, pectoral muscles, shoulders, and forearms work. Prisoners simply place their hands on a chair and their feet on the floor or bed.

Not only does it work your abs, obliques, and rib muscles, but it also works your quads, hamstrings, forearms, and shoulder muscles.

Hanging Leg Raise Options

Straight leg raises

Raise your legs straight, bending your hips until they are fully flexed and your knees are significantly higher than your hips.

Leg raises with bent knees

If you can't do straight leg raises, you can modify them by bending your knees and lifting them toward your chest.

Full straight leg raise

Do the straight leg raise as usual, but instead of stopping when your legs rise above your hips, continue the exercise until your toes touch the bar.

Straight leg raise with towel

Hang two towels over the bar and hold one in each hand. Perform straight leg raises while holding towels.

"Wiper"

Perform a straight leg raise, and when your legs are in the top position, tighten your abs and turn your legs to one side. Turn the other way. This is one exercise.

One-arm straight leg raise

You have achieved "beast mode" status if you can perform several one-armed straight leg raises and hold the top position for several seconds.

Burpees are a full body exercise. This simple movement tests both your strength and aerobic capacity.

Burpee Variations

To perform a basic Burpee, follow these instructions:

Start in a squat position with your hands on the floor in front of you.
Move your legs back into a push-up position.
Immediately return your legs to the squat.
Jump up as high as possible from a squat position.

Burpee with push-ups

Do a regular burpee, but after your legs are in the push-up position, go ahead and do a full push-up.

Burpee with Indian push-up

Instead of a simple push-up, do an Indian push-up.

Burpee + pull-up

Stand under the horizontal bar so that you can jump to it. Do a regular burpee, but as you jump up, grab the bar and do a pull-up. Repeat. Did you hear that? It was the sound of your dying soul.

Possible warm-up for a prisoner, a set of exercises

You have many options to create a workout. Combine exercises to your liking.

If you still need a hint, here are some tips:

Deck of Pain

This is supposedly a favorite workout among prisoners, as they usually have a deck of cards at hand.

Take a standard 52 card deck. Assign one of the exercises (or one of the variations) to each of the four suits. So you'll end up with something like:

Clubs: Push-ups
Peaks: Pull-ups
Diamonds: Squats
Worms: Hanging Leg Raises.

Start pulling out cards. The suit tells you which exercise to do, and the number indicates the number of repetitions.

Finish with ten burpees to get you in a good mood.

Juarez Valley Method

Inmates at the Juarez Valley prison in Mexico, one of the most dangerous prisons in the world, use the following training regimen.

Choose an exercise. You only need to do one thing according to the scheme. Let's say, for example, you can do push-ups.

The repetition scheme looks like this:

Set 1: 20 reps
Set 2: 1 rep
Set 3: 19 reps
Set 4: 2 reps
Set 5: 18 reps
Set 6: 3 reps
Set 7: 17 reps
Set 8: 4 reps
Set 9: 16 reps
Set 10: 5 reps
Set 11: 15 reps
Set 12: 6 reps
Set 13: 14 reps
Set 14: 7 reps
Set 15: 13 reps
Set 16: 8 reps
Set 17: 12 reps
Set 18: 9 reps
Set 19: 11 reps
Set 20: 10 reps.

According to this scheme, you need to do 210 repetitions.

Before each approach, take 5-10 steps to rest. Goal: Complete this circuit as quickly as you can.

Driving along the ditch

Instead of doing maximum amount repetitions in a given period of time, you can move through the groove by completing a certain number of repetitions throughout the day. You can do 10 push-ups every half hour. So in 12 hours a day you will perform 240 push-ups.

I'm moving through the groove with pull-ups. I have a pull-up bar hanging in the doorway of my closet. Anytime I walk past him and do 5 pull-ups. The amount of reps I'm able to accumulate throughout the day always surprises me.

An exercise in failure

For hypertrophy and endurance, simply do each exercise as many times as you can.

One exercise a day

When Ryan Ferguson was in a Missouri prison from 2004 to 2013 after being wrongly convicted of murder, he focused on just one exercise a day. The goal is to achieve 500 reps per hour. It doesn't matter how many sets you do, just try to get to 500 reps in 60 minutes.

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Peterson, Michael Gordon

Michael Gordon Peterson(nicknames: “Charles Bronson”, “Charles Ali Ahmed”) (b. December 6, 1952, Luton, UK) - is the most famous criminal in Great Britain due to the cruel treatment of guards in the prisons in which he served his sentences.

Biography

His most famous crime is the post office robbery (1974). He was sentenced to 7 years, but due to regular violations of the regime he is still in prison (36 years, of which 32 years in solitary confinement). In prison he became famous for fights with guards. One day he thickly smeared his body with oil, and then attacked the prison guards naked. He inflicted several serious injuries on the guards before the special forces unit, alerted, was able to neutralize him.

He took his nickname after his fistfight promoter suggested changing his name to Charles Bronson.

During the time he was in prison, Peterson managed to become famous as an artist and poet. And he even received awards for his works (and part of the money from the sale of works is donated to charity.

There is a Bronson freedom movement in the UK. And they consider him, in general, a good person.

In 2009, a feature film was made about the life of Charles Bronson.

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The real name of the criminal is Michael Gordon Peterson. He was born on December 6, 1952 in Luton. His childhood was no different. The boy went to a regular school and hung out with his peers. There was no one in his family tragic events, there was no violence. There wasn’t even a friend who could influence a person’s psyche like that. Michael did well at school and was respectful of his elders. The boy had a lot of friends with whom he got along well. But one day, after the family moved to a new place of residence, the boy lost all his old friends. Michael's aunt believes it all started when he fell in with the “wrong” company.

Michael Gordon Peterson // Photo: kino-teatr.ru

Youth years

New city and new company forced young man change the name to a more consonant one. So, Michael took the name of the famous Hollywood actor Charles Bronson. Over time, he began to take part in fist fights and engage in illegal activities. For some time he provided escort services.

When he was only 19 years old he got married. In marriage, he very quickly had a son. This event became a kind of shake-up for the man. For some time he became a law-abiding citizen and an exemplary family man. He started to build up muscle mass and got a job at the circus. Things were going pretty well in the family. The couple was very happy, and Michael also acquired a rather toned figure. However, the passion for adventure and free life After a while, it still got the better of reason. At age 22, Peterson committed an armed attack on a local post office. For the crime he is sent to prison for seven years. It is from this moment that his prison story begins.

Peterson committed an armed attack on a local post office // Photo: norcom.ru

Prison life of Charles Bronson

If the man, like most prisoners, behaved approximately, then at the end of 7 years he would be released. Moreover, she was expecting him there loving wife and son. However, in prison he “went off the rails.” From time to time he got up to various “pranks” as a result of which he has been imprisoned for 30 years in a row. He has become such a difficult prisoner that every now and then he is sent to a neighboring prison. In total, he has already visited 120 of them. At the same time, he was kept in solitary confinement for most of this time.

Despite all the releases he also had. After his first sentence, he was released almost 14 years later. But literally the next day he committed another robbery. This time he was imprisoned for 4 years. At the end of his sentence, he left and began preparing to carry out an armed attack.

Psychical deviations

Bronson when he's in Once again was arrested for the crime and declared insane. He was sent to psychiatric clinic. He himself did not consider himself mentally ill at all and argued that he, a healthy and balanced person, was sent to a hospital in vain. Michael claimed that he was treated very poorly at the clinic. Antipsychotic drugs were forcibly administered, which almost always caused muscle spasms. He said that the clinic's medical staff beat him.

Michael wrote letters of complaint incessantly. He often ran away from the ward and went to the roof of the building. The clinic workers could not remove the man from there for a long time, but when they removed him, they sent him to the ward and tied him up. Michael, recalling those times, said that he spent more time on the roof than Santa Claus himself. Perhaps the clinic staff got tired of running after their patient, and she recognized him as completely healthy.

Sitting in solitary confinement, he began to write poems and draw pictures // Photo: favera.ru

As a result, Michael went back to the penal colony. There, sitting in solitary confinement, he began to write poems and draw pictures. Moreover, he received prizes more than once for his work. His work was published in printed publications. For this he received some allowance. He donated all the proceeds to charity. Most likely, the media found out about him thanks to his art teacher. Despite the fact that the teacher provided a favor to the prisoner, Michael one day took him hostage. He was not happy that the teacher criticized his work too much. He tied his victim to a chair and began throwing homemade bladed weapons at him. He also bullied me in other ways. As a result, the teacher received deep psychological trauma, and Michael received a life sentence.