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Honestly the best way to get stronger is holding stuff (L-sit hollow hold, handstand against wall) for as long as you can. The best way to do this is by setting a goal (3 min for handstand against wall), but if you looking for challenges, you can challenge yourself with Wall-walk sprints, where you walk your feet up a wall into a chest-to-wall handstand and back down to a plank without letting your knees touch the ground and do that as many times as you can.
 
Strength Training and Endurance Training are two different things, what are you trying to accomplish?

Strength = Lifting the heaviest weight possible for a low amount of reps. Think doing one pushup with someone sitting on your back. Strength is built by doing progressive overload and using weights. Think 5 sets of 5 squats with a barbell and the next week 5 sets of squats but with an extra 5lbs of weights, each week the weight is going up.

Endurance = Low weight but as many reps as possible. Think doing 50+ body weight only pushups non-stop. Endurance is built by doing AMRAP (as many reps as possible) with a timer. Think doing as many pushups as you can for one minute, take a one minute break then doing the same thing again. Do this ten times.

Body development is the most effective when you focus on one thing at a time. Your muscles will make adaptations based on the stimulus it is getting, if you try and do everything your muscles won't know what to do and adapt slower.
 

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