Ah, the inspiration to write from the day’s events :
Teens, twenties, and beginners are the perfect candidates for high volume.
There is a definite difference in mindset between those who came up in planet fitness, and those who came up in a more serious setting.
75lb dumbbells seem much lighter when you’ve seen/used 150s+.
Though the self imposed limitations can be rampart anywhere.
A hundred chins and 400 pushups is a fine 90 minute workout, not too easy, or too hard. It’s something you could do daily. Especially if you’re young and fit.
The young are perfect candidates for massive volume.
Lots of volume as a beginner is one thousand times better than low volume.
I can blow people’s minds with how fast I run through pushup, dip, and chin volume.
It’s work capacity showing.
My chin rep max is not high, though I can do set after set back to back with little rest. A million sets of three with barely any downtime adds up to a bunch real fast, mindblowingly so to others.
I’ll just rack up the reps, boom, boom, boom.
While I went to refill my water bottle, my buddy started warming up with chins and dips.
He’d barely caught me, 2 hours in I was about to go shower up. But I’m game to workout.
If I have available time, I’m always game to workout. It’s good for work capacity.
This fit 50ish black guy that I’m friendly with showed up soon after, and it ended up being all three of us doing rapid fire set after set.
The two of them dips and chins, me just chins. All three of us sharing the bar, that high energy bouncing off each other.
The 50yo, he said that he liked how it was like he arrived and we got inspired.
I had walked back with my full water bottle, saw both sharing the bar, and instantly I mentally switched from “no pullups for me to today” to “I’m going to race to 50”, which ended up being me racing to 100 while overshooting to probably 120 reps total.
The energy was good there.
That’s how you want it to be when you train, a group of people where you can just feel the energy, and everyone is getting more and more hyped, pushing more and more, the energy bouncing off of each other.
Quote Of The Day :
“A swagger walk to the bar adds reps” – me
Though in close contention is one of the women who works there telling me that my burpees spot has in fact been added to the mopping checklist, recently had been mopped, and that the burpees are spreading. Unbeknownst to me, others are now burpeeing in that spot. I burpee enough in that spot that it’s now added to the mopping checklist. I am inspiring others, and should walk around in a shirt that says “trainer”. At a different gym i used to have people come to me for advice, disregarding the paid trainers. This conversation was had during the pushups.
After the chins, I got my buddy, a fit 20 year old, to do 20×20 pushups with me set to a timer of a set every 2:00. It was at the end of my workout, fairly early in for him.
His mind was blown just on how he’d already done up to 200 each of dips and chins.
He’s not used to volume. He can handle it, but it’s not in his mind frame or something he’s ever pushed before.
He thinks too much in an “overtraining is possible” mentality.
I’m the first person he’s ever met without that hiccup of gym belief.
Though the 50yo guy, he seems to have a similar mentality as me. He pushes his dip and chin volume up there.
I should’ve got them to talk about volume. It would’ve allowed my buddy to see the same mentality in two individuals.
On the 400 pushups I talked him to finishing, the kid is capable of much more than he thinks.
What he didn’t know was I actually did extra reps, 450 something in the time frame.
It’s been 3 or 4 days in a row of 500+ pushups for me. He said he’s never going to do something like that again.
He was talking about the necessity of perfect form, how he can’t do anymore, how injury is a possibility.
But I talked him to the finish.
He did it.
I advised him regardless of how sore he is tommorow to do a few pushups anyway.
The proper mindframe to walk in with is to find “what am I capable of”, without self imposed limitations. To go hard, and expect high performance.
Saying that you can’t do, or saying that negative things can happen is only going to bring you down.
Walk in with positivity.
Couple hundred dips, chins, and a few hundred pushups?
The volume ain’t shit.
Man as made is physical.
You can do more than that daily.
Physicality is natural.
Peace,
Persistence & Tenacity
P.S. Of note was that more girls noticably take note when multiple guys are training hard. One is a show, two or more is a bigger show. I got the feeling that I was “supposed to talk” to a few different girls as I trained my buddy. This dynamic makes sense to me. They had seen me train, then were seeing me train him, with him. And he’s telling people that the volume I do is crazy. Social proof.