Originally Posted by galleryseek

no i didn't try. i was lead by the advice of several different sources of expert advice. and it's not something you need to try yourself to *know* it won't build anymore muscle beyond a certain point... simply because the facts are out there if you look. like i mentioned, a marathon runner's legs are undergoing continual repitition in much the same way as pushups, and do you see marathon runners walking around with bulky legs? nope, not in the slightest...

in order for the muscles to grow, hypertrophy... they must experience a foreign amount of stress.. keyword being foreign.. a stress they have never experienced before. when you add the type of stress that only increasing repitions and *not* the amount of weight, it results in a different change... a change not of growth, but of muscular endurance. therefore there is no change in size, just endurance.

and besides, your experience is skewed because you said yourself, you added freeweights and you simply perform pushups as a warmup. so you can't say your continual growth in muscular size is attributed solely to doing pushups and increasing their reps.