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zorg wrote:Maxrep Pullups was 12, 10 and 6 reps (PR!).

Congrautulations, a new PR always feels good!

Not if you are doing it from a dead hang.

And Holllllllllllllly crap! I knew that the rings would make push ups a bit harder, but I had NO IDEA this hard! So I decided to try push ups with home made rings today. What a surprise. I can do 40 regular push ups in one set but I was hard pressed to do 6 push ups from the rings. I have them susp...

Take a look at this:

http://www.rosstraining.com/articles/wheel.html

Impressive.

I made the homemade wheel in the article and yes, it's hard. Right now I'm only able to do it from the knee position ...

One of the better father's day gifts!!!

Congratulations for your hard work and a great daughter.

For a rowing tabata, I set the interval time to 20 seconds, the rest time to 10 seconds, the mode set for distance and the resistance set low. I row the 20 seconds and write down the distance during the 10 seconds rest (a notepad and pen next to the concept 2). The score is the shortest distance for...

Good luck with growing your CF affiliate program. This is a great way to get the word out and for people to see the results!

Ouch!

Many years ago, back in England, I was told the factory where I worked was going to be closed. I looked for another job and found one here in the U.S. Without that "incentive" I would probably still be in the UK. It turned out to be the best opportunity of my life. While I'm sure it really sucks rig...

I've been struggling with pull ups from a dead hang and have been looking for a simple way to assist the pull up. I see Tara has been successfully using the bands and I have read the page here http://www.simplefit.org/pullup.html . I came up with a simple but very effective method if you have a bala...

Thanks for the encouragement! When I started last September I was struggling with both pull ups and push ups at level one. I'm still struggling with the pull ups but now I'm at level 4. The progress feels slow and I've had some injuries through pushing too hard but I have made real progress. Patienc...

Less than a year ago

volleyball_man wrote:Still at L1
The pullups will keep me there for a while. ...

That's amazing and inspiring progress. I will be very happy if I can manage a one arm pull up at the end of a year.

If the squats and push ups are not a problem then try substituting body rows for pull ups. The idea of day one is to get as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes. A common technique is to use a clock to pace yourself and do one round say every minute. As you improve you can reduce the time between r...

Take a look these logs:
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Just two of many impressive results!

When I started I couldn't do pull ups but I could sort of do chin ups. I went too quickly and got golfers elbow (pain on the inside of the elbow). I had to take several weeks off from chin ups but I could still do push ups and body rows. I did the body rows (overhand like pull ups not underhand like...