That is the goal of the pull up. going up.
Sweet pull up station you’ve made there Mark.
Next thing is to make a dip station to put inside the pull up station, or have a set of rings hanging from the pull up bar to do dips and inverted rows as well.
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My best is 11 at around 255 lbs. I know I’m generally good for five, but four and five will be hard. I kept these at three because in the past I’ve done well with regular pullups never letting them get hard.
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Considered that, but a dip sation is more involved. The rings I’ve considered, I may borrow some ties from work. Or just use the strap I’ve got in the car and a towel. I also think I might try doing dips in the kitchen, in the corner on the bench.
I’ve got a pair of gymnastic rings hanging from my pull up bar, easy to do pull ups and then ring dips. Hard on the shoulders at first because they are not fixed involving a lot of shoulder stabilizers.
Two straps with something like a ring/handle of some kind in the end.
Upper body work is easy, it’s harder to mimic deadlift and squats.
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Air squats, band good morning. Simples.
Ring dips I wouldn’t even consider. Towel inverted rows though…
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Tomorrow many things close: gyms, bars/restaurants (open for takeaway), schools, etc.
Work continues.
Now, I’m lucky because my boss is a smart and decent guy. We have plenty of room, so he is mandating each person take up four square metres of isolation around them. We are staggering breaks to ensure that this is maintained in the lunch room. He also said, if you have to stay home with your kids, the workshop will be open 24 hours: come do your eight hours when you can. His goal is to keep us working as long as possible so the business keeps making money and we get paid.
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I’d be pretty damned impressed if I saw a guy your size doing pullups for reps, period. Are you going to try to drop weight during this isolation period, or just generally try to keep activity up?
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Woke at 259.9 lbs, looking similar to yesterday.
I started dieting down about a month ago, so I can get a better run at 275 lbs. I think I’ll end up around 240 and assess from there what needs doing.
During this period my goal is to maintain muscle mass and work capacity. That way I won’t really have much to catch up on when things go back to normal.
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Nice pull-up bar! Fortuitous timing with you wanting to drop weight - the bodyweight stuff is a great accessory to fat loss.
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Kind of, I guess? The overall poundage I shift is going to plummet, but the amount of reps I think will stay pretty similar.
What I’m excited for is picking up the kettlebell because the swings will be very helpful to maintain a degree of explosiveness. Plus goblet squats.
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If bodyweight drops, while increasing neural adaptation to the movements you’re repeatedly performing, your reps will SKYROCKET. It’s like you repping bench with the same weight over and over, except every week you take off a pound or two. That’s why some people can’t do 5 pushups and some people can do 1,000 without stopping - bodyweight stuff piles on QUICK.
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Which is cool, especially if this happens with pullups. My main concern is to maintain muscle and work capacity, so anything on top of that is a bonus.
Todays training
Hardstyle swings
100x70 lbs AFSAP - 31, 32, 20, 17
Got my heart pumping, which is what I wanted; also lit my forearms and grip up, which I hadn’t expected but is a bonus because I could do with improved grip
Goblet squats
50x70 lbs - 21, 18, 11
Yep, these worked.
Reverse hyper
50 - 30, 20
Lying leg raises
50 - 30, 20
Pleased with this setup. Had me working, plenty of room to improve. I’ll keep it as is.
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Woke at 257.7 lbs, looking similar to yesterday. A drop that big is almost certainly dehydration.
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I kind of view my forearms like my calves - no amount of pain and burning results in any progress so I just avoid it. 
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If my grip improves, that’s a win. I suspect my grip is shortly to become an issue for my deadlift. To take Dave Tate’s words, until now my deadlift was not good enough for grip to be an issue.
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Thank goodness I lift for fun so I can use straps or cheat however I want.
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Straps aren’t cheating. I’m just not allowed to use them in meet.
When it comes to competition I don’t think much, if anything, is cheating.
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For some of us they are the only bit that grows !!
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