If you want muscle, you need to do _heavy_ resistance, not large amounts of light resistance, and you also probably need to eat a caloric surplus, or it will be extremely slow.
If you don't have access to free weights or a gym, you can do body weight exercises, but doing more and more pushups for example won't do it, you need to transition to more challenging variants.
For mass building you generally want to do exercises with resistance such that you're in the 8-10 rep range (maaaybe 12). If you can do more then 12, its too easy. That holds true whether you're doing bodyweight or weighted exercises. The difference is that with weights, you do the same exercise with more weigh, with bodyweight, you change the exercise.
Lookup progressions to one arm pushups, progressions to handstand pushups, and if you can find a bar to pull on, pullup progressions. You might want to consider pistols or working towards them for lower body, which will help trigger hormone response to 'add bulk'.
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Do a variety of core muscle exercises and a lot of ab tucks in various positions, at different angles. It's not rocket science.
AYou're right to stay away from chemicals. Just make sure you eat properly, maybe a little extra yogurt while yu're doing weights because you might need just a little extra protein.
Do a variety of upper body weights with small, say 5-8 pound weights, 3 sets of 10 reps, until that becomes boring, then gradually incrase the weight until you're satisfied with your look.
You shouldn't have any trouble since you have good cardio conditioning and common sense about food.
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