Success!

I did not think I would be able to do this for a long time. Today, I was finishing up my last forearm exercise when I decided to try it. I have done this many times before and can normally make it halfway through. But, today I just focused and finally did it! I was shocked because it has been nearly a decade since I was able to do one...single...pull-up.

You often see cruddy advertisements on television featuring some product like the Iron Gym or whatever it's called. It is so funny for two reasons. First, they want to make you think that if you just buy their craptastic product, you will look like the chiseled model. Second, they obviously think that the product is for normal people. Here is a little fact: normal people cannot do pull-ups. Go try it. Just do one. Make sure not to kip ('kipping' means jerking your body in order to generate momentum to help you complete the rep. A synonym for this word in the weightlifting world is 'cheating')! I still weigh slightly more than 200 Ibs which means my arms have to lift 200 Ibs off of the ground to the point where my chin clears the 8' tall (or so) bar. It is very difficult. Just to make sure it was not a fluke, I tried it again. The second was tougher but I still managed.

Tomorrow, I will try to do sets of 5 pull-ups. Progressive is so wonderful :)

Until then..