33 Pullups Wisdom

33 Pull-ups by my count (video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ykkCpDQO7/).

I didn’t have time to train it this year, certainly did not train anything like I did last year. And I’ve been working really diligently on lower body. Thus I knew I was going to be “carrying” more weight. How did I outperform myself yet again with less training? I came in lighter. I didn’t eat for a day and then sweat some weight out in the morning.

For bodyweight movements of aerobic duration (45+ seconds), your body mass is a make or break it proposition. This is why we may one day see an elite 100m sprinter over 210lbs of weight; but we will never see an 800m sprinter over 170, and the 1600m records increasingly belong to increasingly lighter individuals (120s at last check). Keep this in mind when self-assessing, as people will get frustrated at improvement in one strength skill while worsening in others.