Rise Above (the Pull-Up Bar!)

[Jarric]

Added 12 pullups from Monday and 10 from Tuesday, bringing me up to 1,480 points total. I'm under no illusions that I'm ever going to catch @jonfirestar or @Tobbe now, chiefly because without doing negatives or assisted pullups I can't hit that kind of volume.

[jonfirestar]

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

Holy shit dude that awesome! I can't hit a full 5x5. You'll be racing me across the rigs next time we-re at an OCR.

 

TBF I had to come down and reset for some of those reps! I'm not quite knocking them out yet! I've got a long way to go before I'm nearly as obstacle proficient as you are but I guess we'll see how much I can catch up in March  

 

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

Added 12 pullups from Monday and 10 from Tuesday, bringing me up to 1,480 points total. I'm under no illusions that I'm ever going to catch @jonfirestar or @Tobbe now, chiefly because without doing negatives or assisted pullups I can't hit that kind of volume.

I can't really deny that I'm playing the numbers a little bit  but in my defence I'm not really doing anything differently to what I was doing before the PVP, I've just massively increased the volume of it. I'm actually really quite pleased with the fact I was still able to progress the weight on the high volume pull ups today. 

[Tobbe]

Today's workout:

 

Bodyweight 4A	2018-12-05
Start: Jump with both feet together - 3 sets	duration: 40
4 rounds
Resistance band thrusters	reps: 19
Divebomber Pushups	reps: 12
Negative chin-ups	reps: 10
Deadhangs - 2 sets	40 secs + 70 secs

 

On top of that I added 10 extra reps of negative chins, and 10 reps of negative pull-ups

 

So, all in all, that should be 611 points

[Elastigirl]

9 hours ago, Jarric said:

Added 12 pullups from Monday and 10 from Tuesday, bringing me up to 1,480 points total. I'm under no illusions that I'm ever going to catch @jonfirestar or @Tobbe now, chiefly because without doing negatives or assisted pullups I can't hit that kind of volume.

I'd say do the negatives. If it's  too easy for you, you could do them super slow, or just the fact that you still have to do more will up your volume and thus difficulty.  I can do a full pull up, but I'm also doing negatives. 

[Tobbe]

Great start to the day - 20 minutes morning walk in a crisp -2 C and then 12 negative pull-ups when I got back in  

Now time for breakfast!

[Arkania]

I may stop with this challenge because of my ellbow :S

[Tobbe]

1 minute ago, Arkania said:

I may stop with this challenge because of my ellbow :S

 

 Take care of yourself first and foremost!

 

Also, you're already doing another mini-challenge too, at the same time, aren't you? I think one is more than enough  

[Arkania]

15 minutes ago, Tobbe said:

at the same time, aren't you? I

 

One for the upper body and one for the lower body

Fit's perfect.
And squats are very easy.

[Jarric]

14 hours ago, Elastigirl said:

I'd say do the negatives. If it's  too easy for you, you could do them super slow, or just the fact that you still have to do more will up your volume and thus difficulty.  I can do a full pull up, but I'm also doing negatives. 

 

I could do, but I don't think I'd get much benefit from them (aside from scoring some points!). I'm also a bit worried about putting loads of volume in from an injury point of view, bearing in mind my pullups are in addition to 3 workouts and 1 climbing session every week.

 

 

3 hours ago, Arkania said:

I may stop with this challenge because of my ellbow :S

 

Definitely stop or at least back off if things aren't feeling right. PvPs can have a tendency to make people go a bit mad and jump in too hard into an exercise (I've definitely blown up a shoulder on a push-up PvP before, and I've done some silly things for Daily Dares. I'm sure you could find a lot of other stories around this forum!)

[Tobbe]

Reporting in some more progress: 3 x 12 negative pull-ups. Which (very temporarily I'm sure) puts me in lead again  

[Arkania]

3 hours ago, Jarric said:

Definitely stop or at least back off if things aren't feeling right. PvPs can have a tendency to make people go a bit mad and jump in too hard into an exercise (I've definitely blown up a shoulder on a push-up PvP before, and I've done some silly things for Daily Dares. I'm sure you could find a lot of other stories around this forum!)

 

Thanks. I have issues with my ellbow from bouldering and pull exercises aren't thaaaaaaaat good

I may do push ups instead (out of competition ).

 

[Tobbe]

Yay! Personal best this morning! 15 negative pull-ups in a row  And then a 12 km (7.5 miles) run in 70 minutes. And then a little later 15 negative pull-ups again 

[jonfirestar]

620 points puts me briefly back into the lead. 

[Tobbe]

I did four sets of 15 earlier today and just finished 15 + 10 + 5.

 

So that's 600 + 300 = 900 more points for me  

[Rhovaniel]

Wow, sorry for going AWOL. I suck at regularly updating... 

 

Anyway, you guys are killing it! I'm just going to add my measly 910 points from my workouts and other 'can't resist doing more' shenanigans, but I have no illusions of catching up!

[TimovieMan]

I'm sitting here with T-Rex arms (which may not have been the best idea the evening before an archery tournament), but I did the following:

 

1 full chin-up (and 2 failed attempts at a second chin-up, and 2 failed attempts at a pull-up)

4 negative chin-ups (and a couple of failed attempts at negative pull-ups and negatives with neutral grip)

20 seconds of underhand deadhanging

40 seconds of overhand deadhanging

30 seconds of neutral grip deadhanging

 

59 points  

[Tobbe]

Failed in my plan today   I wanted to get a full workout in today, but we were having guests over, and it took all day to clean the house and get all the food done...

 

So all I managed today was 55 negative chins and 17 negative pull-ups. ("All" as in that I only did pull work, not a full workout)

[WhiteGhost]

Holy crap you guys  

 

When I left a week ago I was in first place and now the 2nd place score is already 10x my score....  

 

Way to go you guys.  You are killing it!  

[Elastigirl]

Those are some impressive numbers you all are putting up!

[Tobbe]

Set my alarm early this morning to get that last workout for the week in!

 

Bodyweight 4B		2018-12-09
4 rounds
Assisted Pistol Squats	elevated	reps: 5
Dips		reps: 12
Wall Slides	Neg. pull-ups	reps: 10
Finish: One Arm Bar Hang	regular x 2	duration: 120 + 90

 

So 400 + 21 more points! Will hopefully get some negative chins done tonight when we get home again. We're at my parents-in-law today...

[jonfirestar]

Ouch. I’m probably not going to be doing crazy volume next week. Photo credit @Rhovaniel. 

 

[Tobbe]

6 hours ago, jonfirestar said:

Ouch. I’m probably not going to be doing crazy volume next week.

 

Is that even your hand? I think it's all smoke and mirrors to lure us others in to a false sense of being able to beat you! Then you'll come back and report 3000 points for one day!  

 

Just kidding. Sorry about your hand. Hope it heals up quickly!

[Tobbe]

15 negative chins + 15 negative pull-ups will end this day  Good night!

[Elastigirl]

6 hours ago, jonfirestar said:

Ouch. I’m probably not going to be doing crazy volume next week. Photo credit @Rhovaniel. 

 

Ouch!

[jonfirestar]

10 hours ago, Tobbe said:

 

Is that even your hand? I think it's all smoke and mirrors to lure us others in to a false sense of being able to beat you! Then you'll come back and report 3000 points for one day!  

I mean that would be a good trick. It looks far less dramatic with all the blood cleared away but I've got a nerd meetup climbing trip on Saturday and I don't want to make things any worse for then. I did grab myself 60 points this morning with 6 full pullups. 

 

10 hours ago, Elastigirl said:

Ouch!

Yeah.