Me too.
For me, it is the ONLY thing that causes growth.
Funny how different we all areš
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And donāt forget another reason, which is my reasonā¦i am 57 and I donāt want to spend 6 days a week in the gym like I did 10 to 30 years agoā¦i still work a minimum 50 hours a week, travel an hour each way to work and I love to golf, therefore 3 full body HIT style workouts at 20 minutes each is perfect, on the days I donāt do HIT, I enjoy walking/running and practicing my golf skillsā¦therefore HIT is a decent way to get into and/or improve my health
Just my humble opinion
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Im 53 and CANāT spend that time in the gym like 20-30 yrs ago!
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If you have 60 seconds you can bang out 10 pushups then keep watching TV or brushing your teeth or whateverā¦
Then build from there. Donāt let the end product fool you, getting into the type of condition being discussed is a process.
If you have a favorite TV show you can get 50 pushups in during commercial breaks.
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Exactly. The whole reason I do daily training is to spend LESS time in the gym.
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Sure why not. Only thing is you may lack super heavy lifting in certain areas if the muscle ised previously is exhausted
Yeah. It has been a thing with me for a while to convey to mhy kiddo that fitness doesnāt only happen in a gym or by sophisticated methods.
Itās simple. Bang out some pushups. Do some jumping jacks. It can even be fun. Smack some logs with an axe.
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Have you ever seen what occurs at a strongman competition? I assure you people can be strong when theyāve exhausted their muscles.
I think you misunderstood?
That is certainly a possibility. Can you elaborate?
Different energy systems.
People always want to bag out on different types of work without looking at the different energy systems, like somehow a little cardio is going to affect their bodyweight deadlift or that a little metabolic conditioning is going to somehow detract from their position in the continuum between where they are and what theyāre actually capable of.
Like, if one loses a gram or two of glycogen doing pushups or burpees or something, eat an orange.
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Iāll see if I can find a good video summarising Dan Johns Easy Strength for you. It should get the idea across pretty well by someone whoās been in the couching game for 40+ years and is still practising what they preach at well north of 60 years old.
@entsminger mate you are hilarious. Shades of Homer Simpsonās dad 
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Iām not so much interested in strength as hypertrophy . Iām pretty much as strong as I need to be but Iād like to be more muscular.
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Iāve been lifting for some 50 years so I know when something is effecting my performance. Once I started adding negative chins to my already fairly hard workouts I could feel the negative effects on my body, negative chins are very draining. Concentric chin efforts did nothing to advance my chinning but eccentric ones did but at a price I didnāt want to pay.
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Initially you expressed interest in understanding how this works. Now, when presented with an established author and a source that will explain it, you no longer are interested?
I believe you. I know that there are mitigating factors in how people perform. Man, do I know.it isnāt meant to be a judgment, just an observation based on conversations with others.
Also, This sisnāt directed to you as an order or instruction, just putting it out there in general conversation.
Kinda like this:
Person A āHow did you do that?ā
Person B āI started at x, then did xy, and eventually got to xyzā.
Person A āOh. OK. Thanks.ā.
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Dude, when Discovery puts on their Battle bots or Mythbusters marathon Iāll show you some couching game!
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One question Iāve had about this, Are you attempting to do just regular chins or are you trying some hit style technique with those too?
