Naturally I’m a high energy person, without a high energy expenditure daily, I essentially cannibalize myself becoming unable to sleep, cocooning indoors (staying home is a sickness), and having my stomach be all tucked up.
This is why I PT daily, and the energy expenditure from labor is a blessing to me.
I have to earn my sleep, I’ve always preferred training daily, and days I don’t work I’m still in the gym for a few hours to get that daily calorie burn.
I’m doing just stupid high volume. Days off of work I’m putting in a half shift at the gym, days at work it can end up being half the day physical.
I’ve found volume doesn’t wear me down one iota. I can work labor, and do massive rep volume on top of it and just grow bigger and stronger.
I started doing a purposeful run of training biceps, mostly on the seated preacher curl.
A month of this has thickened my arm, and I find chin ups to be easier.
It’s 30+ chins most days, and sometimes I’ll be going back and forth between chins and a curl, just pushing the volume into the stratosphere.
I do mantra pushups everyday, at least three times through the set of 23 (15 mantras + 4 mantras done twice through, for a while it was sets of 19, then I started repeating the last 4) mantras.
The other PT constant is three minutes of a leg static. Lately I’ve been doing the wall sit.
The high horse stance definitely made my legs stronger. I’ve noticed wall sit to noticably improve my explosiveness in the past, and at present it sets my metabolism on fire, making me feel mildly feverish when I push it. And 2/24/20 at ~403-406pm I hit a 3:05 wall sit, probably the second time in my life I’ve broke three minutes. A fairly old fit dude gave me props for this. Unlike in May 2018 I hadn’t intended to get a 3:00 set, with each fraction of the total I just felt good and kept going.
I do most of my PT at the gym now. So a gym session is a bunch of curls and/or chins, random other stuff, then pushups, and wall sit.
3:00 is that daily minimum time held, and I add a second to the total requirement each “set” it takes to get there. For example 3×1:00 ends up being held til a total of 3:03 has been held before I check it off for the day.
I feel phenomenal.