Really? Day five already? Shucks, I'm almost done with week one already. That's fricken' awesome dude!
Woke up this morning and didn't feel as sore as I had for the past couple days. I think that yoga routine worked it out. I'm not saying I am not sore...just not in the agonizing pain I was in for the previous 72 hours.
So today was the dreaded legs and back day. I only say dreaded because I have never been a fan of working out my legs. The upside is that the back portion of this routine is ALL pull-ups which is my favorite exercise. When I finished up P90 last time I could do 14 pull ups fresh and then keep a pretty good rep count the whole rest of the way through completing about 100 pull-ups by the end of the routine and all completely unassisted. To me that's bad ass. I was in a little competition with Brando in this department and he ended up squeaking by and surpassing me which is fine because I am used to it by now with that little whipper snapper...besides it helped push me, so I kinda won too. Thanks big brous!
Here's the shotty part. While I have been out taste testing every taco stand in San Diego county, Brando has been keeping a decent grip on the big P to the Nine. Nothing crazy, but even halfway keeps you well primed as he is even now, while really dogging it, ripping out a sweet 16 pull ups to my eight! I'm not even gonna blame my broken finger for falling off so bad in the pull up count. I mean, it's my pinky finger for Pete's sake. I primarily blame my fat ass, and bowl of jell-o disguised as a stomach.
I already mentioned the other day that my legs have maintained some strength and that was evident again today so whatever.
What I am putting out there is that the pull-up challenge is back on. I have to dig myself out of a hole, but Brandon has to pretty much build a house so I'll call it even ground. I'll be at 16 come Christmas. As a matter of fact that is what I will be giving myself for Christmas this year. 16 pull-ups fresh.
Home ownership is a bitch Brando.
...btw, I forgot to weigh myself today. Dang.
What do you mean you could do 14 pull-ups fresh? I had to read a couple of these paragraphs twice due to the language barrier.
ReplyDeleteAnd you still haven't told me how you broke your finger. (or maybe I should go look through the comments again.
Push-ups are my pull-ups. When I don't keep them up regularly, I'm lucky if I can do 10. When I was doing the 300 Challenge once a week, I got up to 25 straight through, no breaks (fresh?) and was stoked on that. Anyway, just relating... 100 pull-ups is beyond badass!
We'll see where I am at by Xmas, but now my goal is to at least maintain my 16. Hopefully I can get back up to 20 but that probably won't happen while I build my compound. :). See what you did. Just by bringing me into this blog means I can't slack. Very wise brous. Very wise. And I haven't even had the pleasure of my food melt down yet. Guess I'll have to put that on hold. Dang you. Good work with week 1. Proud of you. B
ReplyDeleteBy Fresh I mean the first set...because after that the reps go down a bit each time because, well... You're not fresh anymore.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
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