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How can you get a lot stronger without the gym?

Pick up heavy things, put them down. That's why gyms exist, to give you an environment to do it on your own terms. If you're in the gym, and want to get strong without gaining mass (train your central nervous system) lift for few reps, near to your max. As the saying goes "If you wanna lift more weight, you gotta lift more weight." What that does is it trains your motor neurons and/or creates more motor neurons for your muscles.

Without the gym, basically hard manual labor. Convince your mom to get a woodstove and spend your day chopping wood or something.

If you have the cash, you can set yourself up a gymnastics rig in your house, like a pullup bar and rings, and then basically take gymnastics at home, but that's more convenient in a gym, after all, it's called gymnastics and all. For the money you spend on a full gymnastics set, you can get the same for free weights (well actually, rings would be cheap to set up, but you need a high ceiling for that really) basically whatever you'd spend on freeweights would probably be less money unless you buy like $1000 competition quality Eleiko bars and stuff like that. However, if you can set up gymnastics rings somewhere, you can get a set fairly cheaply if you look around, and rings are better than a pullup bar. Ring training would certainly be beneficial, too.

The last last thing you can do is isometrics. Isometrics isn't like, "the best" though, it's useful, but unlike what you read online much of the time, it's not complete magic. Isometrics builds up the tendons and CNS, it doesn't much for muscle growth really. Basically, a simple isometric is, let's say you have a horseshoe. Try to bend the horseshoe, you can't, right? Well how do some people bend horseshoes? They keep trying at it. The way isometric exercises work is, to apply force, your body gets used to spiking your blood pressure and putting a ton of blood into the muscle to apply max effort, but this only works for applying max effort for a small small range of motion, so just because someone is strong enough to bend horseshoes or something doesn't make them able to, say, clean and jerk 400lbs, because they've only trained the small isometric range of motion. You see this even in weightlifting, there's people that can rack pull (which is almost an isometric movement, you only lift the bar a couple inches) like 800lbs, then deadlift in the 400s.

So someone around could be, say, the strongest at bending horseshoes, but then still weak in every area. That said, isometric strength is VERY impressive, and combined with full body exercises can make you quite strong. There was an old time strongman, Alexander Zass, who trained mostly with isometrics, he could bend prison bars and stuff like that. It's definitely something you can look into, just beware, it's not magic.

But, gyms exist for a reason, in industrialized societies we mostly no longer chop wood and lift heavy logs and things like that, since we have machines and poor people do it for us.

What about eating certain foods?

The military does not use a gym when it trains recruits. A significant amount of military physical fitness material is available online. You've already paid for this material with your tax dollars, so it's available to the public.

For starters, look for the Marines' "Daily 16" physical training (PT) program. Used to be the "Daily Dozen" but that's just how the military is.

Unless your food is anabolic steroids, then not really, no.
http://bradpilon.com/muscle-building/tr ... le-growth/

Added testosterone without exercise resulted in more muscle growth than exercise alone. *Price is Right losing horn*

Once you get into eating foods to increase testosterone, it more or less becomes the realm of broscience. IE, Vince Gironda would recommend eating 30 fertile eggs everyday and stuff like that. You can have more cholesterol in the diet, as testosterone is a cholesterol and your body needs cholesterol to make hormones, but that's about it.

You can increase protein intake to gain muscle mass, but if there's no hormonal change in the body, you'll just piss it out. The reason why lots of people recommend deadlifting/squatting is because of the amount of stress it puts the body under makes it release hormones to cope, so then if you, say, throw bicep curls in, you'll get more results from squats+curls than curls alone. Eating more generally will allow you to get bigger, and even gain lean body mass, at the expense of fat. Sumo wrestlers technically have the highest amount of lean bodymass out of pretty much any athletes around, but they also have tons of bodyfat, too. There's studies done where people who were sedentary, they measured them, and supposedly something like 18% of the weight they gained was lean bodymass, but the rest is fat.

Basically, lift heavy things up and eat, then you get strong.