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Just find it's rather distracting taking pics all the time though that's an essential part of charting progression. Chopped up whatever was on the phone for the above which I reckon pretty much sums things up No, its definitely not some earth shaking transformation or social media influencer type commercial posting with a title like " How to gain 50 pounds of muscle mass in 10 months " or "Losing 200 pounds in 1 year". Physical aesthetic was one of the main initial motivation to get back into fitness but as things progressed... ...my long term personal fitness SMART Goal has been changed and remained since penning it down as:  To minimize the possibility of being a burden to anyone in time by maximizing on fitness and good nutrition on a daily basis from now on.    What follows is a really monotonous wordy account on making these life-changing decision(s)..  A journey of many things learned. Mistakes made leading back to ever more researching and discovery ...

 18 Dec -- ...have not started drafting anything for this month's reflection .   The chronic fatigue after Covid is REAL, like what many had told me! Another 13 days before the year draws to a close. Looking through my training log since Jul and having came up with various intermediate markers along the way, I decided to add my final goal last month --   Complete 5000 pullups by 31 Dec 2022. The one exercise I can say that has been the main impetus kick starting everything since Apr this year. And quite literally the "daily driver" in my workouts is -  PULLUPS . A great compound exercise which is definitely one of the primary pillars of upper body calisthenics fundamentals. The other two being dips and pushups. However my own story with pullup and why its rather personal goes back for more than 40 years... but that's something for another time perhaps.   Looking good... from daily average to monthly tallies. Jul -     483  (kickoff mont...

1 Dec 2022 PullUps (L-sit): 4 x 5  2 Dec 2022 Break 3 Dec 2022 💎PU: 30,30,30,30,30,25 DIPS: 20,20,(18+2),20 Pullups: (12,12,(10+1),9),12 L-sitChinUps: 5 Continued with rubbing out elbow joint and forearm and lower part of biceps before sleep Idea is to increase blood circulation after the arm pump from workout. 4 Dec 2022 PullUps: 10,10,11,10,10 (in the evening when elbow pain totally gone. done with much less effort than usual) Woke up feeling rather stiff and sore all over. Keep rubbing like the night before and also did some for the back of neck with the "gua-sa" thingie   By evening, the soreness and tightness that usually accompanied the medial area of elbow is gone Soreness at the back of elbow is gone as well.. Arms able to position at 180 degrees with bicep flex without discomfort   5 Dec 2022 PARIS Chest/ Tri: Hotel Gym 🐲F: 8,6,6 AirSquats: 35,35,35,35 6 Dec 2022 Light Tricep with UniTree 💎PushUps: 25,25,20,20,30 AirSquats: 35,35,35,35 7 Dec 2022 Light Triceps...