Starting to Gain Experience from Push-Ups Chapter 1080 - 533

Early morning.

Sea Sky Garden, Room 1903.

The lights weren’t on inside the house, and in the darkness, only the faint blue flames of the kitchen gas stove flickered.

The lid of the soup pot slightly rose and fell with the steam, producing a series of muffled "glug glug" sounds.

The rich aroma of meat seeped through the glass door cracks, filling the dim space.

Yet, it couldn’t overshadow the faint smell of engine oil and the cold, hard scent of rust in the air.

The spacious living room barely contained any decent furniture.

Instead, the floor was covered with blue sports rubber, and the walls were lined with impact-resistant soundproof padding.

Beneath the ceiling, a custom load-bearing steel beam spanned across, suspending a tall black weighted sandbag.

In the weak light from the street lamp slipping through the curtains, one could barely discern the cold outlines of the equipment, like silent guards standing firm.

This place resembled less a home and more a private boxing gym charged with masculine hormones.

In the pitch-black room, a figure clad only in sports shorts rose and fell with breath.

"Hoo——"

Fang Cheng held a barbell over his shoulders, facing the floor-to-ceiling window, practicing deep squats.

The ends of the specially made Olympic barbell were densely loaded with black plates.

On each side, there were ten 25kg plates, totaling a weight of 500 kilograms.

That’s 1,000 pounds, half a ton of weight.

Such weight could break a normal person’s spine, but on Fang Cheng’s shoulders, it was like a light stick.

No sign of the struggle typical of overloaded squats, not even a distinct bulge in thigh muscles.

Every squat seemed as if high-strength titanium springs were installed at his knees.

The glute and leg muscle groups tightened instantly, followed by a burst-like pop.

His movements were astonishingly fast.

In the darkness, one could only see the barbell plates on each side spinning up and down rapidly, leaving trails of afterimages.

The heavy plates tore through the air, stirring up deep, urgent howls.

"Hoo, hoo, hoo——"

If there were a professional fitness trainer present, they might go mad with disbelief.

Is this resistance training? It’s clearly a hydraulic human pile driver operating at full power.

Even top strongmen struggle with such weight, biting their teeth and flushing red, while using professional techniques to protect their core, preventing vertebral injuries.

But Fang Cheng?

The entire process was continuous, with action intervals less than half a second.

No redness, no panting, his expression as calm as morning calisthenics.

Only the white vapor steaming from the pores with rapid blood flow, swirling around like fog in the darkness.

Indicating the terrifying energy reactions within this body.

"The 500th one!"

Fang Cheng’s body suddenly stopped, standing firm.

Then his waist and abdomen slightly arched, hanging the hundreds of kilograms of barbell back on the rack with a "clang."

On the retina, a line of small text slowly appeared:

[Complete 500 weighted deep squat exercises, Skill Experience +2]

Fang Cheng picked up the phone from the floor and turned it on, the screen’s glow illuminating his sharply defined face.

"5:09."

Staring at the time displayed, Fang Cheng muttered to himself:

"Completing a set of 500 deep squats in under 4 minutes?"

"This efficiency... barely acceptable."

According to the exercise physiology books he read in the library, this method is the negative example.

Standard squat practices dictate controlling both the lowering (eccentric phase) and lifting (concentric phase) of the barbell between 1 to 2 seconds.

To tear muscle fibers by extending muscle tension duration and achieve more effective muscle growth.

If movements are too fast, the body’s inertia mechanism takes over, leading to uneven force on target muscle groups, insufficient training, or even tendon tears.

But that’s all based on theories for ordinary humans.

For Fang Cheng, whose constitution has surpassed the 80-point physiological limit, his body is ridiculously resilient.

Using textbook exercise methods is simply wasted effort.

Unlike the Pull-ups skill, which unlocked a special Training Mode where slower actions result in better training effects.

Hence, Fang Cheng opted to speed up his movement rate, piling more repetitions within unit time to enhance fitness skill training efficiency.

From attempts during today’s morning workout, whether squats, push-ups, back bridges, or lifting legs, the actual experience growth effect was barely satisfactory.

With the same weight and repetitions, time was indeed significantly reduced, but the experience gained was notably less than when done slowly yesterday.

"This is the conflict between explosive power training and muscle fiber reshaping..."

While wiping the inconspicuous sweat from his neck with a towel, Fang Cheng reviewed the training sensations earlier.

Rapid movements utilized the stretch reflex of skeletal muscles, accelerating the rate but causing insufficient stimulation of the muscle group in each move, thus reducing Experience Points gained.

This is somewhat like "infinite fast strikes," where punch speed appears to be faster but every subsequent punch due to inertia is less powerful than the first.

"Seems I need to continue increasing weight load."

Fang Cheng glanced over those barbell plates, shaking his head.

Yesterday, he specifically went to a nearby sports store to purchase ten additional 25KG barbell plates.

Intending to use 500KG weights to increase training difficulty and improve training efficiency.

But for his monstrous body, it’s far from enough.