The power went out at planet fitness today. It was off for maybe 5 seconds. They kept people off the treadmills and stair climbers after that.
The music turned off, they didn’t turn it back on, that was nice.
No one really wants the music anyway, I’ve always thought it funny that corporate gyms insist on 24/7 garbage pop.
Most wear headphones, it’s nice to have gym floor silence. With silence you can always opt for headphones.
The place was earily silent. No music, no treadmills. Forced off the treadmills many looked lost. Funny how people are like that without every modern convenience.
Most of what I did was burpees and pushups.
Overshooting 50 10 pumps, plus the mandatory mantra pushups for the day, all combined I easily did 650 pushups. And ocd wise I hit more at home that night. 725 pushups for the day sounds about right.
Part of the reason I overshot was that I’d reset a few reps in when someone talked to me. This happened to me at the beginning and half way marks. Between reps 6-10 I reset to zero, then at about rep 29 back to 25. Plus a few extras at the end.
I thought about it, calisthenics, build you to your proper size.
Your body is not going to be a size it doesn’t fit/carry around well when you’re doing a million pushups and some burpees.
And burpees are not only euphoric, but primal. Doing enough, creating the sweat pool, it puts you in a good mindstate. Can’t phase me mixed with socially outgoing from physical effort.
My training is mostly burpees/pushups, wall sits, neck bridging, and abs.
I’m occasionally using equipment, but mostly bodyweight.
Today’s session was the aforementioned movements and a few sets (reps per set of 50, 30, 20) of hammer strength machine pulldown.
This has my proportions looking better. The sheer pushup volume causes me to muscle up, while the up/down of the burpees has me steadily losing fat.
I like how even though the burpees are multi pump, I tend to use 50 5 pumps as a guideline, bodyweight squats are still built in.
Enough burpees, ab tension, and leg tension can’t do anything other than spike your testosterone.
I’ve noticed testosterone levels are high, and it’s not like I’m getting loads of vitamin d.
It’s mindset and training.
It’s extremely obvious to me that you can get huge amounts of anabolic stimuli at planet fitness, the barbell isn’t required.
The barbell being required is nothing but powerlifting propaganda.
I talked with this prior service navy dude, about a decade older than me, that I know from the old commercial gym hell.
Interestingly he agreed with me about strict fill range of motion being unnecessary on pushups.
I spoke of my las vegas back isometrics, pushups, and jump rope “program”.
What I’m doing now is getting me freakish like that had.
I noticed he was intently listening to what I have to say works. Everyone defers to me now on gym knowledge. I love this, and I still have a ways to go. I recently leveled up physically, and I can smell the higher levels, so close!
I related a few SoCal bodybuilding gym things, including the hilarious to me coincidence of the redhead dude from detroit that I was training “back day” with there, and my uncle both in a 48 hour timespan saying to me “have you realized you’re the biggest, strongest dude here/there not on shit”.
Even women were on shit there.
It blows my mind to have reached this spot seemingly in every gym i go. I’m not even close to my genetic potential. Higher levels baby!
Persistence & Tenacity