When In Doubt…Pushups :
20 sets, nearly all being 35 mantra reps, a couple sets of 27 mantra reps, I ended the session with
the last set pushed to 51, 52 reps because I didn’t say the last mantra aloud, making around 700 total in about 45 minutes.
Regularly doing this type of thing you can’t help but be strong.
Push the volume high enough on meaningful calisthenics, and you can’t help but realize how true that above is.
When your chest and triceps both are locking up yet still able to continue you intuit that high reps don’t just build endurance.
When the muscle is in that state you’re building strength.
Outside of a powerlifting gym, 500+ pushups a day will build the strongest pressing of anyone you know in your weight class.
Assuming the calorie consumption is there you’ll get BIG, and it’s a different look than from lifting weights.
Many describe it as looking more natural.
Localized Hypertrophy & Localized Growth :
Even without calories being high you’ll get localized hypertrophy with enough volume.
I was 170lbs with a chest that overshadowed the 230lber’s standing next to me.
The body is an amazing thing.
It will grow to demand, defying what is known about the body.
I’ve seen enough large hands on otherwise scrawny dudes…that work with their hands to say that growth isn’t limited to childhood, that the demands placed on the body in adulthood will still force systemic growth adaptations.
Vince Gironda wrote of seeing a man will his bone structure (hips) to change.
What can you think and take action into making happen?