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Hello everyone who reads these after Wednesday. April was the first month when I could not hit my daily pull-up rep goal a single time.
Rules are: do some number of pull-ups every day. On the first of each month, increase the number by one.
“Just do one more” until now has been a spell I could cast once a month to magically make me stronger. I’ve increased my daily goal again for May, but in practice what it looks like every day at this point is I do as many pull-ups in a row as I can physically manage, rest for a minute or two, and then do the rest.
I’m also coming up on my first anniversary of doing this.
I think I will prefer to stay with my bodyweight. I want a habit that I can do mostly anywhere, and, crucially, something I can do every day without injury.
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