Friday, September 5, 2025

I did ten sets of ten pull-ups today!

 I don't think I've ever done 100 bodyweight pull-ups in a single workout before so that was great!

Not to count my unhatched chickens before they don't ever hatch but I think I will complete about 70 of the 78 v4 benchmarks on the moonboard. I'm up to about 60 or 62 today and I dropped the last move on Squincher twice and I've done Astro Creep in two parts. Some of the climbs just seem so hard. But that's not really a bad thing. 

Something about my personality would rather work really hard on the v4 that everyone says is v6 rather than doing the v6 that feels more like a v4. At the end of the day you still pulled a challenging move. 

Anyway I've now coached the comp, training team, and club and they all seem good. I feel like coaching has gotten better every year and I've built on what I've learned and done in the past and that's really rewarding. 

There's some great kids out there who like climbing. 

Pull ups. Here's what I'll say about pull-ups. Recently, in the past year or so, I learned how to pull from the bottom position. I used to do pull-ups in this kind of two part motion and then I watched people who were really good at them and realized I'd been doing them wrong. And it's not like I wasn't relatively strong in them. I just wasn't pulling from the bottom position. 

And that's my motto now. Pull from the bottom position.

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