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Pushups are great. If you do regular cardio the only strength training you really need (if your stated goal is to “look good”) is regular pushups.

That being said, if you really are just in it for getting ogled, I’d suggest swimming. I don’t swim too much nowadays but really nothing ever made me see an Adonis in the mirror like swimming lengths. It has a great way of working a ton of sexy muscles in the right proportions.

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I never learned to swim :|

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you can often find cheap-ish adult beginner lessons. I re-learned how to swim from my local YMCA, and my college offered cheap lessons to students and people in the community (which I never took advantage of but I considered it often)

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Try the libertarian workout: pulling yourself up by your bootstraps

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10 reps of bootstraps and 10 reps of age-of-consent dips

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Mental gymnastics routine explaining why age of consent laws are bogus

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calisthenics legend here

get a pair of rings to do dips, inverted rows, and elevated ring pushups.

For legs do Bulgarian split squats, and progress towards pistol and shrimp squats if you want, or just add weight to the bulgarians

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I can do shrimp squats very easily because I think that’s more thigh, but am no where near doing more than 1 proper pistol squat because that needs more butt I think.

Any tips for that?

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just keep doing what you’re doing

once you can do 8-12 reps for 3-5 sets you should be ready to progress. If you aren’t just hold a weight while doing it and again, 8-12 reps you should be ready.

Honestly, I don’t think Pistol squats are worth it. I can do them fine but I think they’re a miserable exercise that requires more mobility than strength for most people. Most strong legged dudes I know who hit the squat rack can’t do a pistol squat, but me, who works legs only once a week doing bodyweight stuff can.

I’ve just gone backwards in the progressions so I just do Bulgarian split squats, progressively overloading (making heavier) the dumbbell weights I’m holding. Finding it much more effective and achievable.

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These are great but make sure they fit your door properly. My ex fell and broke her wrist when hers slipped off the frame

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