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A second write-up after ~3 months on Muscelups after the initial euphoria of the first time. Collected some data and observations by now to understand how this move is different from all the other regular pulling exercises. Differences in movements are obvious but I'm referring to things like reps/ set or session, recovery time between sessions etc.  Unlike PullUps or ChinUps which are more or less daily affairs... there's just no way I can go with that kind of regularity, intensity or volume here. Till date after 3 months and 2 days-- it has been only 22 sessions with many outright fails! While the "sea" of reds reflected by the zeroes started paring down in Nov... it can be seen that's because number of sessions per month were reduced compared to Sep and Oct. That is, there is more days or overall more time between sessions on a monthly basis, which also led to higher number of total reps per session in the last few up to yesterday, 13 Dec 2024. There were also...

The month kicked off for the first few days being sick right after a trip to Jakarta at the end of October. While down with the cold, did the occasional weighted Dragon Flag test with my 2 x 2.25kg ankle weights. Finally, a passable 8 rep set after 2 plus years Followed by another trip to China on the 7th-9th Nov next and  surprisingly-- that's where I hit a running PR, Not my usual running distance but a 10km. I attribute it to the nice 15C weather there that day Had a few more weighted dip sessions after coming back from China... but nothing to shout about. Had been re-assessing how I should approach and attack weighted dips. It's something I'll probably work on in 2025.  Looking at the "Daily Salad Menu" -- there's quite a fair bit of PushUp and Dips to catch up this time for the "Year Quota". While dreading to put in more for squats-- the running part was also beckoning. Squats plus runs, now that's quite a bit to juggle. Anyway, still manag...

 Hot on the heels of the pulling PRs... came the first MuscleUps on 11 Sep 2024  1, 3, 3 ...and tried doing some at "Teletubbie Bar" next day... kinda harder and can only manage 1 more each time after a jumping MU