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Originally Posted by Fake Nick
yeah I forgot to add pull ups , those can do miracles too  |
To be honest, the most mass I gained was about 6 lbs. My goal was never to gain size, but to gain fight related strength and muscular endurance. While I did gain a lot of muscle and noticable size, I don't think you'll ever get a lot of mass from just pushups (etc). Although I still say they are the best overall exercises.
Although I didn't start with weights and I don't do them now (when shoulder is healed), my peak work-out was: 500 push-ups, about 3800 sit-ups, 200 pull-ups and 250 squats per day each with a 45 lb weight straped to me via a bookbag (later I moved that workout to every other day for more healing time and not all 3800 sit-ups had the weight...maybe only 1000 did). I would go each set to failure and then allow only 30 seconds rest between sets and continue until I hit the full 500 (etc). First sets typically were 80-100 for push-ups between two tables so I could go further down and 60 for the pull-ups, palms out and with the weights for the pull-ups.
Even with all that on top of 4-5 hours of martial-arts training, cardio, and creatine, I never gained more than 6 lbs. I mean, I was ripped and maybe a little freakish, but again mass wasn't my goal. Of course, I'm sure you could gain a lot more than that if you just did the push-ups (etc), since I was burning serious calories and still eating everything I could (although it was probably still not enough).