I've had some unexpected things come up that have put the pull up challenge on hold. One is that I fell on my back on Monday while running. I slipped on ice and because of that I didn't work my back much this week b/c it has been sore. I'm better now though. Second, not this week but the two weeks before were filled with a little too much snacking and my clothes were feeling a tad tight. I wanted to do a little mini "diet" this week. I hate that word b/c i'm not really "going on a diet". I just use that term to describe a period of time where I tighten up my nutrition, count a little more carefully and get rid of some bloat. Feeling much better now.
I am ready to start a 6 week pull up program. I will be using this program by Leigh Peele. It talks about the real way to do pull ups and I have been kind of cheating a little, I admit. I don't always go down to a dead hang after each one. Tomorrow I will start off by maxing out and seeing how many I can do the right way. I will be training with the chin up/underhand grip. I am going to start on Monday.
On another note, I think it'd be way cool to be down to about 15% body fat for the summer. At the same time I don't have much energy for dieting these days. I'm totally happy with how I look so I don't really have it in my to "diet" hard. Here's the plan I came up with. If it doesn't work out, it's ok. But I'm going to try it. Instead of doing a one month cut like i talked about before, I will do 3-4 different week long "diets" and try to shed a pound/half percent bf each time and then maintain it for a few weeks. Week one of this plan was this week. I started at 134.8 lbs and today I was 133.4 lbs. I will focus on maintaining for the next 3-4 weeks and then possibly do it again. We'll see.
Anyway, those are all of my random thoughts. I will post again this week about my pull up challenge.
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