You Don’t Need To Lift Weights To Build Impressive Muscle

USA Olympic Speedskater Joey Mantia's awesome quads.

With the Winter Olympics upon us, have you stopped to take a gander at the legs on those speedskaters? Jesus Christ! Liftin’ Bros can only wish their efforts at the squat rack could give them results even approaching the quads and glutes of speedskaters, their awesome muscle created not from squats, not from leg press machines, but by their own bodily exertions.

I myself was a speedskater in my teens and I then recall seeing the jacked quads of competitive speedskaters and thinking to myself, “they look deformed.” How times and opinions change…

The same goes for Olympic gymnasts whose bodies outshine all those Instagram fitness models, not due to lifting dead weight, but due to lifting their own living bodyweight.

And because these athletes are regularly tested for banned substances, underachievers can take no comfort by claiming these athletes' astonishing amount of jacked muscle is due to drugs, so losers are going to have to retreat back to their dependable "they have superior genetics" and similar smarmy justifications to explain their own lack of achievement.

There are some impressive videos online by guys who took on the uncomplicated, simple challenge of doing a set number of daily pushups, chinups or pullups for a specific time period—one month, three months, etc., in the privacy of their own homes, to see what results they might achieve, which turned out to be impressive to say the least. Search these out on youtube.

For those who have not yet managed to get themselves into a gym due to claimed cost, time restrictions and all the rest, here’s this: ANYBODY can stop reading this right now and get down on the floor and pump out as many pushups as they are able. No cost. Takes less than a minute. And then repeat in an hour. Then again tomorrow, and the next day. If you can only do two, then push yourself to do three in a few days from now. Then four, then five. This simple exercise works biceps, triceps shoulders, pecs, abs, quads and glutes.

Stop wishing and start doing.