25/11/2024
YOU DON’T NEED A GYM
Do what you can, it just needs to be intense and effective.
👇🏼Lockdown story (closure of gyms):
Your body doesn’t know the number of reps, only intensity.
What if I told you it was more simple than you think to build your body?
Let me explain a scenario I was in a few years back during lockdown:
Throwback to working out in the garden. I gained all of my mass back from working out in my garden, I got sick of making excuses and the closure of gyms so I decided to do bodyweight workouts. Even without a dip bar or pull up bar I was able to make great gains and force enough adaptation to occur.
All you need to grow is a stimulus, and to get that you must simply be putting your body under stress to adapt to. This just means pushing your limits during training and increasing the intensity from workout to workout, over time.
You can do push ups at home and build your chest and upper body just fine. As long as you are doing more volume (so more sets and reps) and progressively making it more intense.
Same goes for bodyweight squats - perform as many as you can and maybe leave 1-2 reps left in the tank when starting out. And perform an additional 2-3 more sets. Then add sets and or reps each time you workout. Going from something like 3 sets of 25-30 to 5 sets of 25-30. Or 2 sets of 35 and increasing however you want - as long as you’re doing MORE.
Instead of thinking of the perfect number of reps (which the body doesn’t know) you just do as many as you can. Then add sets, and build up from that.
Start with bodyweight push ups, doing as many as you can and then rest 2-3 minutes and go again. Rinse and repeat for weeks on end whilst adding sets and you will GROW.
If you can’t do push ups perform a regression with your knees on the floor.
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