High reps will make you strong.
High volume will have you grow like you wouldn’t believe.
It boggles my mind that I’m getting bigger while working labor, but then I realize all I do is high reps and high volume at pf outside of work. And it’s not like I eat like a bird.
I saw a comment online one time that high reps, high volume may not be the best/most efficient way, but in certain circumstances it can be the only way.
High rep, high volume pushups really gave me all the pressing strength I have, and thus far on weighted pushups my 5rm was 115, an entire petite chick standing on my upper back.
An older guy gave me props for the weight being on my upper back, acknowledging that’s worse leverage than it spread out.
In a prison setting big ass homeboy sitting on you will make you wicked strong. Training partner as weight for squats and pushups…harder than the barbell lifts.
Machines? There’s nothing wrong with machines.
The biggest dude I’ve met did machines and high reps.
Mental focus adds to the effectiveness of an exercise.
Work? That’s brainless carrying, but my pf machine workouts? That my friend is mentally focused on the musculature.
Of course I’m growing.
Running yourself into the ground is a worthwhile experience. You’ve gotta push to feel alive. As long as you’re doing so with anabolic, not catabolic activities ridiculous volume is not only fine, but highly beneficial.
I view my physical abilities as something of a strange case. My most recent “best” set on chins was 7 reps having already done ~300 back reps. My rep outs may not be high, but my work capacity is. I can do reps until the cows come home. If we just do rep after rep until one of us can’t go any more…you’ll tap. I can do into the hundreds just one after another after another.
I remember benching 225 for a lot of reps on a few occasions. 1000 pushup workouts. Yep.
Work capacity is the ability to just keep doing work.
Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy? It doesn’t matter, you don’t need to worry about shit like that.
When you get bigger you get stronger. It’s not a perfect correlation, but strength will come along with the size.
This is why I’m amped up training volume at pf. I’m getting bigger. Therefore…you know it, I’m getting stronger.
Just make the mental decision that you’ll be big and strong and you will. Simple.
I patiently await touching a barbell again… because I’m far far stronger.
As long as you’re not obsessing over minutia, pf works very very well.
A length of time away from the barbell makes you hungry.
Small hole in the wall places with limited equipment can be the best.
Any place can really. Your training progress is up to you.
Train hard. Eat well. Disregard minutia. 100% of the equation right there.
Taking days off is garbage.
Persistence & Tenacity