[catuscubitus]

I argue that taking a minute or two every hour or so to do a few reps of an exercise clears people's thinking, lends perspective, provides fresh ideas, is great for general mental health, and hence, makes people more productive and happier than sitting for 8 hours or more and going to a gym after.

Small training sessions at work, throughout the day, are also great to build a strong team spirit and feel pumped all day. Unfortunately, people tend to rigidly compartmentalize rather than seamlessly integrate physical activity into their lifestyles.

[abustamam]

I tend to agree. I had a gym trainer tell me that the best way for me to learn to do 100 pull-ups in a row (ie the Murph challenge) was to do a few pull-ups every hour or so (grease the groove) until I can do 100 in a day. Then just keep improving from there.

So it's good for strength too!

[t-3]

I've seen similar for pushups - do twice as many pushups as your 1x goal, in whatever reps/set is comfortable, slowly shifting to more reps/fewer sets until you are doing 2 sets of 100 pushups or whatever your goal is.

[catuscubitus]

Yes, personally, this works very well for me for any exercise. To get better at pull- and push-ups, I just do lots of them and rarely ever go to my limits. I look at training as practice. My aim is to be comfortable with pull- and push-ups, pistol squats, etc. Focus on process rather than outcome.

It's good to hear that there are gym trainers who advocate for this. From what I've seen, this approach seems to go contrary to popular belief and some people tend to be quite adamant about it, insisting on specific routines, splits, and rest days, but it's how I went from not being able to do a single push-up to effortlessly doing 10 consecutive one-arm push-ups. I just practice.