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Jul saw the 2nd half of the Fighter PullUp program and AMRAP day on Jul 14. Max rep did move up from 18 to 20 but personally I wasn't satisfied with the form.  In retrospect, it was a bit of a bad prep that messed things up. Firstly, maybe it would have been better to have more rest before the max pull attempt. Anyway on the morning itself, made 2 earlier tries with the wobbly pullup stand at home.  19 was the best attempt (previous max on the same stand was 18, tested on 22 Jun). Given shaking bar vs a good fixed one-- I knew with a latter, should be able to knock another 1-2 reps out.   The other problem was choosing the worst time in the day to do it again, 2pm and it was a hot day. Plus, over-chalking the hands made things a little painful on the palm and having to jump up on the bar... It might all seem minor but when going for broke-- every little thing counts!.  Normally don't bother much because AMRAP or 1RM aren't usual things in my workout/ training reperto...

As usual, there is always so much going on each month with different exercises, it's hard to focus on what to do next. While still staying with my "daily rep salad" of the few basic moves but decided to re-direct focus on pulling once again. L-sit ChinUps Really more of a self test to see where I am after 21 months ... Got to 13 decent reps (according to my self-set standard). Stopped before the form breakdown further. Could have eked out maybe another 2-3 more ugly ones but as usual, reminded myself there's no point in doing ego-reps. PullUps Looking through my Instagram posts... the last AMRAP ( A s M any R ep A s P ossible) of 18 happened after a long tiring day after work last year. Watching again... it really wasn't done with the kind of standard I had in mind by now, especially in the closing 2-3. For the last one plus year, having switched from high rep sets to lower regulated counts but added more sets daily, that kept volume roughly similar in order...