Simple Calisthenics For Reasonable Fitness :
Health and fitness has become an industry, and has been very overcomplicated.
Lifting weights? It’s a practice I recommend for everyone, personally I enjoy lifting, but you don’t have to.
Lift I mean. You don’t have to lift weights.
The other night I did a third set of pushups before showering.
The first two sets had me at either 84 or 93 reps for the day (I hadn’t counted perfectly), and I did the third solely cause in my eyes it would be better to do 100+ pushups that day than to stop so close, but short.
With all the overcomplication of fitness simple things like pushups are very much overlooked.
They’re not given the credit they’re due, and almost no one milks them for all they’re worth.
I keep having this thought : “100 pushups, 100 bodyweight squats, 50 chins daily, eat real food, meat, potatoes, vegetables”.
You could half the rep guidelines, change the choice of exercises, eat real, healthy, nutritious food – it’s all guidelines, with the essence being keep it simple, and if you were to actually do this…
You’d be a great example of sustainable above average health and fitness.
And with how bad the average american is this ends up being even higher relatively.
I said in conversation recently that I haven’t bench pressed in two years. This was a very literal statement as in about a week and a half it will be exactly two years. I’m being looked at like “no way you haven’t benched in two years”, but what I didn’t mention to them was that I do pushups religiously as daily PT.
The simple (pushups) negates any disadvantage from missing the extra credit work.
That’s how I view training.
You have your simple consistency, and all else is extra credit.
I’ve been losing most interest in the gym lately.
Now most would turn into something more resembling jabba the hutt or a skeleton than staying somewhere between linebacker and defensive lineman if they were to go from 6+ gym trips weekly down to quitting.
The thing is though : that’s the extra credit!
The pushups are still going to be done religiously.
Wherever I am.
With what I have access to at the moment, I’d be doing high rep overhead squats, and hammer curl feeder workouts on top of the pushup base if I truly did quit the gym for a time.
Keeping fitness simple and always possible logistically has been my approach, and it works.
For myself training is simple, and entirely free of excuses.
Persistence & Tenacity