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Key points on exactly how I got jacked by using calisthenics within the prison system. It all revolves around this half rep range of motion that you see here.
The whole point is just keeping the tension on one muscle group at a time before passing the job onto another group of muscles to take over the workload. Now, the beauty of this is when you stay in this short rep range, the pump just increases and increases, and it has nowhere to go if you don't go into that full range of motion rep. So, you reach that failure point pretty quickly.
And I'm only stopping just long enough so I can bust out a couple good reps and achieve that failure point again in a very short time. Now, I'm also incorporating these bricks that you see here, and I'm dropping my chest below my hand placement. And what I'm doing is I'm actually hanging my body weight off of those bricks, so I'm achieving such a full stretch that I normally wouldn't get if my hand placement was flat on the ground.
And I think all these little things matter. All you beginners out there, you can do this off your counter. If going on the ground is too much for you, just do push-ups off of a counter. All right.