Okay, so I posted up a thread around this time last year when I first started using my workout system. At that time I weighed in at about 137; now I'm up at 153lbs. I have gotten so much bigger in the upper-body area, and I commend myself for that, but now it's like I've hit a brick wall. Well...I guess you could say that. I've just heard so much about benching and how much people bench that I'm starting to wonder "Is not owning a bench holding me back?" I mean, can I get equal or better results of a bench from doing perfect pushups/standard machine chest presses/vertical butterflys/etc...all of course while maintaining a healthy diet and eating a lot? Because that's all I have, and times are hard right now with money, and the local gym is $30 a month. I don't want to fall behind with my workout. I've gotten so far, and now I'm getting discouraged because I don't have a bench. Can I still pack on mass and bulk without a bench? I do own free weights....a dumbbell bar and some dumbbells. But yeah, I just don't know what to do anymore. I'm 15, 16 in two months.
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- Thread starter wpe2006
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Wear a backpack with some weights in it and go pushups with that on, or put your feet on an elevated surface so you are angles downward onto your hands and do pushups. Both will increase the weight you are pushing which should improve your pushup. Also, clap pushups work well. Make sure you are doing lunges and jump squats and stuff. Leg work stimulates full body growth
Wow, that read was fun. Paragraphs man. Break it up. What are your questions? Let me get this straight, you no longer go to the gym and pondering if you need to buy a flat bench press home weight gym to continue seeing gains right?
If that is the case, go old school workout man. Becareful doing these as some of the stuff that I am about to suggest are fun, require balance, and somewhat dangerous. Btw, you won't even need weights.
1) warm up with 100 free full, deep squats
2) then do 50-100 situps
3) do 50-100 pushups standard.
Okay, now that you are warmed up, here are some fun excercise:
1)Try to do handstands: walk around the house on your hands.
2) Do a handstand against the wall and do handstand pushups -- be really careful as the blood willl rush to your head and you might be dizzy. Once that gets easy, do hand-stand pushup without the wall; now that will be impressive.
3) Push-ups with your feet elevated ( I like to use the bed).
4) use a 2 chairs and do dips
5) Do pushups with varying hand-position (standard, wide, close-make a triangle with your hands.)
6) hoold a plank position for at least 1 minutes.
7) do Burpee with pushups.
the list goes on and on man; with only using the body weight.
If that is the case, go old school workout man. Becareful doing these as some of the stuff that I am about to suggest are fun, require balance, and somewhat dangerous. Btw, you won't even need weights.
1) warm up with 100 free full, deep squats
2) then do 50-100 situps
3) do 50-100 pushups standard.
Okay, now that you are warmed up, here are some fun excercise:
1)Try to do handstands: walk around the house on your hands.
2) Do a handstand against the wall and do handstand pushups -- be really careful as the blood willl rush to your head and you might be dizzy. Once that gets easy, do hand-stand pushup without the wall; now that will be impressive.
3) Push-ups with your feet elevated ( I like to use the bed).
4) use a 2 chairs and do dips
5) Do pushups with varying hand-position (standard, wide, close-make a triangle with your hands.)
6) hoold a plank position for at least 1 minutes.
7) do Burpee with pushups.
the list goes on and on man; with only using the body weight.