Balance in training?
You’re giving it way too much thought.
I’ve had multiple periods of my training being reverted to naught but pushups, and my build has always been proportionate.
Maybe pushups are the perfectly balanced full body exercise.
Maybe it’s the fact that I have the best genetics.
Whatever the case I care not an iota that I’m training almost nothing but pushups, that my programming is imbalanced – it works for me.
Be consistent for long enough and you realize that any program works – it’s just a matter of the effort applied over a length of time.
That’s the magic required for physical progress – effort consistently applied over time.
It’s funny to compare what gym goers obsess about vs what is the “normal” way to live.
Most aren’t paying particular attention to any aspect of their diet.
Meanwhile there’s a “diet freak” type gym goer obsessing over every minute detail of what goes in.
The middle ground is the way for me here – I don’t count macros or calories, my diet starts with milk, meat is my second food group, and I try to have some bacon and beef each and every day.
That’s the guideline.
I can only laugh when people think I drink a lot of milk, as right now it’s not gomad, and in the past I averaged 10-12 gallons a week for a decent length of time.
I eat like men of yesteryear, and therefore I am built as rugged as they.
Look to and emulate rugged yesteryear to not be of the pansy current.
Simple.
I have immense physical strength, and while yes my mother was scary strong when she lifted as a high schooler, it for me was a matter of my training consistency and the eating of power building foods.
I actually shot myself in the foot from a strength and power perspective going from 212 to 178 as a high school freshman.
So much the gym goer buys into is detrimental.
The whey is going to raise your metabolism, not bulk you up.
I’ve been using some whey powder and protein bars the last month or two because I felt like it, stopped drinking whey daily as I wanted to keep weight on (I was losing weight faster than I expected with the utmostly scientific program of barely eat and work as a line cook), and have gotten a few laughs from people by referring to the met-rx bars I enjoy as “dessert protein”.
If you go to wherever supplements are sold, observe the display a moment, and are honest with yourself that is what the entire aisle is…dessert protein.
You don’t need that stuff, it can be amusing to incorporate, but you don’t need it
You can always just eat real foods, and thrive.
Meat and dairy, in either order, and some whatever else.
As far as training, I just want to get some implement to press with high frequency.
While a keg or yard axle (everyone should have a yard axle) sounds nice, I still have the giant duffle bag I used for a sandbag years ago.
That’d be the most sensible option at present – rebuild and daily use my giant sandbag.
Just go buy 200+ lbs of sand, a pack of contractor cleanup bags, a roll of duct tape, make 25lb miniature bags, then get to putting the thing overhead – 50/20 programming, bump it 25lbs when you hit that.
All the covid gym closures of last year could’ve been nulled by the individual doing just this.
Funny, I don’t think I once thought to do so, instead rocking ~150 pushups and an 8 mile bike ride daily, plus the occasional pullups during that period.
Sandbag training makes sense to me. Press a 200lb sandbag first, and you’ll press a 225lb barbell that way.
But, as it has been always, and is to be forever – I’m good doing my pushups.
And they are MINE
MY PUSHUPS
Now to practice on duolingo, drink some banana flavored whey in milk, and to bed.
Past midnight it’s already friday, I expect a good day, as one must always – there’s a million blessings to focus on, and as I continue to wake each day, there’s life to live – amen.
Persistence & Tenacity