2024 Jul Training Reflection

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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 repertoire. 

Lesson learned.


Even with all these reasoning and excuses-- I do still feel weak at the 20th rep. Need to find another way to increase/ improve pulls from here...


Last part of the month was down with a bad flu... Monthly quota of "Daily Salad" basically a sea of red.

Will do some catching up next month... especially with running mileage.



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