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No, I don't think so.
The Earth's density is 5.51 g/cm³.
For comparison, a baseball has a density of 1.3 g/cm³.
Even just the Earth's surface crust has an average density of 2.7 g/cm³ (it's more dense under the ocean)
Unless you can compress a baseball with your hands, you're not making a dent in the Earth.
The only way it would work would be if your strength increased proportionally with your size, which isn't the case normally for humans (someone 20% taller than another person isn't necessarily 20% stronger than them).