Have you ever wondered what would happen if you started doing 200 push-ups every single
day and 50 pull ups every single day over four months?
What would happen to your body?
Have you ever tried it?
That's what we are going to talk about today.
I'm Vince Del Monte, thanks so much for joining us, we have a fresh episode of "Ask the Skinny
Guy Saviour".
The question came from Paul Nicholl, Paul said "Vince first off..."
Ok I guess I missed him when I was in the UK and he wanted to meet up.
"My training question is you mentioned doing 50 varied pull ups everyday as part of your
pre-show prep, assuming that you do these in instalments of whatever you can manage,
do you push each instalment to failure or not, or do you try to complete the 50 in a
set time, what's your protocol for the 50 would have been a much shorter way to ask...sorry
dude.
Such an inspiring guy thank you so much" Thank you Paul.
For those who don't know two years I competed in the WBFF World triathlon championships...the
world fitness model championships.
I did do that one as well when I was 16 though.
Prior to the show, I was living in Toronto at the time, and I met up with my Coach and
we came up with a game plan.
He came up with two things that totally blew my mind, I still remember to this day when
he told me to do these and I was just shocked.
He said, "Vince I want you to start doing 50 pull ups and 200 push ups every single
day, six days a week.
Sundays take off and don't ask any questions, just do it."
The first thing I thought is probably what you're thinking, "Uh in a quart deficit, are
you sure?
Aren't I going to get small, aren't I going to lose muscle?"
The opposite happened, I had the thickest chest and the thickest back up on the stage
and I contributed that to the lose bodyweight push ups and pull ups every single morning.
Whether I was sore, whether I didn't want to do them, whether I felt great I still did
them, every single day.
I figured out how to get to 50 pull ups, I sometimes started with a wide grip, sometimes
I used a varied grip, and sometimes I used a neutral grip or an underhand grip.
Sometimes I did more of a sternum pull up but the bottom line was I focused on shortening
my lats without my trunk moving.
I wasn't doing those silly things that other people do that don't actually fatigue the
muscle.
I was doing pull ups with the intention of building my lats and the same thing was true
with the push ups.
When I was doing my push ups I wasn't doing these ones I was doing the full extension,
I was thinking of shoving my apples together and I wasn't pushing up, I was pushing down.
That's a new way to think about doing push ups.
When you do your push ups what do most people think about?
Push up.
Well that's not what I think about when I do push ups, I actually think about pushing
the floor away from me and it's a completely different experience.
Also when I do my push ups I can actually develop my rear delts by doing push ups and
this is all physics, this is all biomechanics.
If you're interested in this take a course called RTS, Resistance Training Specialist,
when I'm down on the floor doing my push ups I don't just shove in to create inward tension
on my pecs, I am also shoving outwards to create tension on my rear delts.
If you want to try it, do it yourself right now.
Go down to floor and do a push up but instead of just pushing up I want you to try and spread
the floor away from you, try and shove the floor away from you and you'll instantly feel
your rear delts fire up.
Who would've thought?
This is another lesson on how exercise is created on the inside of the body, that's
why people invest in my programs because I explain what I am thinking about when I do
an exercise.
This is where a lot of people get lost in trying to develop their body because they
are just looking at somebody do an exercise and then just thinking about how to get from
A to B. I'm going off on a whole separate rant which we can revisit on another day.
To answer your questions basically I didn't give myself a set time to do them, I just
did them every single day Paul.
Some days I knocked out 200 push ups in 5 or 6 sets and sometimes it took me 10 or 12
sets.
Same thing with the pull ups, sometimes I could do it in anywhere from 3 or 5 batches
but sometimes it would take me almost 12 sets just to get to the 50.
It depended on how I was feeling that day and how well I was recovering etc.
The bottom line is that it was an extreme example of intentional over-reaching, is that
something that I do all the time?
Absolutely not it was something that I did specifically for that show because I wanted
to bring out those body parts and I really wanted to harden up my triceps as well.
For another show that I competed I may do a whole other protocol but on two different
body parts, that was something that I did for that specific show because that was my
goal.
You can't specialise on multiple body parts at once, your body only has a limited amount
of recovery resources.
I hope that helps, I apologise for some for some of those side rants there but Paul that
was a great question and I go more depth with all this as well with all the private members
who are part of my inner circle at livelargeTV.
So if you're not a part of livelargeTV make sure that you come and join us, we have almost
5000 paid members who come and get access to some of my more advanced information.
Stuff that I don't put up on Youtube but I save for my most dedicated people, my most
serious people who are really looking to enhance their physique.
So if you want to go and check that out it's always there for you at livelargeTV.com and
we'll wrap it up right there.
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Again let's get a good conversation going below, I want to know what has been the most
extreme thing that you have to your body that has produced results and that you were kind
of shocked by.
That made you go, "This isn't going to work, I'm going to over-train.
This is too much."
What was one thing that you tried, maybe it was a set and rep protocol, maybe it was a
specific workout that you were really sceptical about but you gave it a shot and it produced
results and you are happy that you gave it a shot.
I want to know your feedback below so why don't you brag about it right now, I'm going
to give you the floor and you can tell us what you did and tell us about the results
it produced.
Thank you so much for watching and we'll talk to you soon.