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I'm not asking if you work out, I'm asking if you actually spend your hard-earned money to borrow some companies weights. Do you spend money to go wear a muzzle, & follow some arbitrary rules of some establishment to keep in shape? What do you spend? Can you get out of it, if you want, or is there a ridiculous cancellation fee? I bet there is.

I'm not asking if you work out, I'm asking if you actually spend your hard-earned money to borrow some companies weights. Do you spend money to go wear a muzzle, & follow some arbitrary rules of some establishment to keep in shape? What do you spend? Can you get out of it, if you want, or is there a ridiculous cancellation fee? I bet there is.

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Absolutely correct. Paying gym fees is asinine. I remember a guy who passed BUDS after being at sea on a destroyer for six months, and the only space he could find to train in on the whole damned ship was a small compartment the size of a walk-in closet. No weights. Just cals. Dude was up to 500 pushups and 500 hindu squats by the time he got back.

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500 pushups?... What does that mean? All at once or something? If so, that's unbelievably impressive.

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The most pushups that I could ever do in one continuous set was 220, back when I was a young Ranger in my 20's. There were other guys that I knew in the bat that could do more.

https://infogalactic.com/info/High-intensity_interval_training

You set a high goal, based on your fitness level, and don't stop training until you hit that number. You can rest, but you can't stop. For instance, you set a goal of 200 pullups. Then you do as many per set as you can until you hit that goal. If you can do ten per set, then do ten. If you can only do three, then do three. The point is maintaining a steady rate of progress towards the overall goal, so that when it's achieved, you know that you've done something.

Throw your clock out the window. This takes as long as it takes. If it takes you two hours, then it takes two hours. If it takes you six, then it takes six. Achieving the goal is the point. Next time it will be faster.

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500 pushups in a single set sounds absurd to me. That guy could probably be a ring master.