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Wellness Wednesday for February 19, 2025

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I’ve managed 13 pull-ups in a row for two consecutive days. All according to plan. (I am falling behind on the plan.)

What is your pull-up training plan?

Do the same number of pull-ups every day and add 1 pull-up on the first of each month. 13 was hard enough that I think I'm going to keep it constant for another month.

I'm also doing some push-ups and sit-ups, with a similar method: same every day, adding 1 or 2 the first of each month depending on how I feel about the previous month.

I think 13 is a lot, congrats to that.

That's great! My PR is just 9, looks like I need to try harder.

Seconding @FiveHourMarthon, don't worry too much about the original plan, focus on the process. Things go up and down, they don't go the way you want, such is life. Consistency over long, long periods of time will prove itself out with gains.

Great job!

Things go up and down

Ideally more than 13 times.

Thank you. I'm looking forward to the anniversary so I can start measuring the habit in years. I've still only missed the one day mentioned in the link. It's made me aware of how rarely I get sick, in fact. Though maybe if I can do it drunk at 2 am, I can do it with headaches and nausea. I'll go easy.

Don't let falling behind on the plan discourage you! I've literally never perfectly completed a workout plan, I'm always too ambitious, but when I get to the end I'm stronger than I would be if I quit.

thanks. Hope your bjj is going ok.

Appreciate the thoughts and prayers. I'm telling myself this is the worst part, in that I'm no longer totally lost so just surviving isn't doing it for me, but I'm not actually winning much. My hope that a bunch of even newer guys would sign up for new year's resolutions was frustrated, most the classes I show up for I'm just on the bad end of a game of smear the queer when we get to rolling. But every now and then I catch one, so I'm getting better.

The severe, abused-victorian-orphan bruising has mostly stopped, so now my wife is more of a fan of what it's doing to my body，

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