You Do Not Always Need Weights

When I was in high school I took a weight lifting class and to say the least I was relatively lazy about it. Most days I would not even bring my clothes to dress out.    Though, the only time we would get a grade was when we maxed out. At the beginning of the semester I maxed out at one-thirty-five.  The entire time I attended this class I might have actually bench six times.  However, I did have a strict work out routine that I followed after school.  It included at least fifty push ups a day and progressed monthly from there in trying to learn how to gain weight.

When the day came for us to get our grades I was a tad nervous because I was unsure what my max would be.  I remember lying on the bench looking up at one-thirty-five and wondering if I could even lift that.  My spotter said “ready go” and I took the weight off the rack brought it down and pushed it back up without a problem.  Feeling relieved, I began to see how much weight could lift. Before I knew it I was pushing up two hundred pounds with much effort.  That day I learned you do not need weights to build muscle mass and was surprised what a few push-ups would do to learn how what to do for muscle building.