Can You Get Stronger Just By Adding Reps?

Can you get stronger just doing 100 push-ups a day or adding reps?

Well, yes and no. You can certainly become more proficient at the motion through practice, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll build stronger muscles.

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[thomashuffcutt]

It feels pretty awesome to have my comment alluded to in a RDP video.

I've made it in life.

[Booster]

This is why you can never go wrong with correct form and utilising the muscle mind connection, overall can build good quality muscle along with great strength gains.

[dandulus]

This channel is such a good source of information !

[animelife]

Great content as always! I love these short videos where you get straight to the point, no bullshit!

[Gentamoru]

Wow this is something i've been thinking about lately, been adding more reps to my exercises too, I might have to change and make them harder instead

[nzr]

Great mental material. Due to home workouts this is something I end up thinking about on an almost daily basis. I do a lot if calisthenics but also incorporate fairly light dumbbells (30lbs) and that's usually for back and some squats. Glad I follow you Matt. All the best and continued success

[robertofreestylefitness]

The answer is yes. But you need to add reps AND speed. Force = Mass x Acceleration. So if you dont increase the mass (weight), to produce more force you need to increase the acceleration. This means doing the reps as fast and explosive as you can. This is how you develop strenght and not endurance in calisthenics without adding more weight.

[victormanuelpolanco]

Great argument, Matt. This vid is important as it brings oneself once again back to the basics ; underlying what you are doing what you do for!!!. Big thumbs up!!!.

[CPVerde]

Hi Matt, I love how you summarized the concept of neural efficiency that comes from repetition of a movement. As you said, dozens of reps with the same force does not provide enough demand on the muscles. Speaking of high repetitions, many long armed individuals over 6'2" seem to have trouble with calisthenics in general especially high reps. Would you ever make a video comparing long and short levers and what can be done to aid those who are mechanically disadvantaged?

[christopherbloor]

Great info as per.

Could you do a video on the muscle and movement strength gained from doing mechanically-weak exercises, a la gymnasts?

[jameswoods]

Hey Matt. The reason I was asking about conditioning while quarantined is because you can't leave your house to do anything except essential trips. What would be some good workout ideas to get a little conditioning in a small space?

[obaolori]

one should not forget that herchel walker most likely has done his best all the time to create harder resistance even tho using just bodyweightt its just that the amount of reps recieve more attention deemed more exceptional but i think that is his way of getting that efficiency you talk about from all angles

[fakebeardlennon]

100% Agree to that buddy!!! I myself have both experienced these strange phenomenooon! Now why is that? Oh yes! You just explained it... There's you answer!!!🤔. 🤗. 😏

[Marc-tvjg]

hey, matt! i absolutely love your channel and you convinced me to check out convict conditioning (it's great for learning proper form with the harder movements). my question is this - i've seen various online workout sheets for CC, and it has you doing each move once a week (1-3 working sets, depending on skill level). is this correct? thanks for all you do man!

[ryanrogers]

My goal is to work up to 60-90 minutes no rest of push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, lunges, dips, squats. Any tips on how to get there? I’m hoping to hit around 500 reps each exercise each workout.

[Geudry]

I keep thinking of the same volume thing. AS one diggs further into failure.fewer an fewer motor units remain ''active''. SO as you go into the last reps, those few 4 reps that are nearly impossible might be engaging without the help of those fibers that were previously fatigued... so even pushing the endurance. at the very end of each set, the intensity factor of that ending would still be inducive o strenght adaptation? like, for example: idid 50 push ups, now my chest and tris are twitching and I have 3 in the tank, i continue to reach failure, all the way into even dropsetting. In order for my body to continue to perform the movmeent it would need to engage motor units. those last 5% motor units that remain, would still have ''high intensity'' relative to how many are now performing the job.... does it make sense?


like, I know it is still more efficient to continue to incrase the intensity, to avoid having to waste so much time to reach clostrer into failure and induce adaptation.... I mean, is kinda what you said.... lol

[walterwhite]

Good video as always. Just quick question since im going to a military school and need to jack up some crazy amount of push ups and pull ups, as of now i can do 12 clean pull ups and 30 clean push ups, should i keep going working out with just my bodyweight and up my reps or should i add some weights to it? Part of the reason i can do 12 clean pull ups is because i added weights to my pull up workout some weeks ago and i absolutely thought it helped. Just need some of your insights thanks!

[gary]

Hi Matt, would doing pull ups/Chin ups increase my forearm size or would I need to hit them directly to make them get bigger?

Awesome channel too. Keep the good contents coming. :)

[doctorllama]

Adding reps wont make you stronger, what will make you stronger is failure when you go to failure you have to recruit all the fibres. So high reps train all the muscle fibers, from endurance to power fibres at the end.

[TCrou]

I’m working on the “fill the gap” 3-set micro workout for pushups and pull ups you talked about on a recent video. I’m doing them at least 6 days a week, because I feel my body can handle it, with the goal of increasing at 1-2 reps on sets 2 and 3. Which category do you think that bests fits...muscle strength or strength of movement? I do feel the mind-muscle connection (demand) to get those additional reps.