do 10 pull ups

In a very little voice… I’m not sure what happened, but after a week giving chin ups a try, my maximum number of pull ups went down. What the?

The only thing that I can think of is that I’ve been doing a lot of running recently… but I can’t see the link.

And, er, that’s three pull ups with good form, plus one wreck.

I switched to chin-ups (which are slightly easier) for a bit of variety. I do three sets to exhaustion…

I improved two pull-ups this week! :) It will happen.

I’m kind of embarrassed to post, given that I can do at most 4 (FOUR!) unassisted pull-ups. And only the first three have any decent form. I started off with (ahem) 2, and after a few weeks of effort, well, here I am.

Just wanted to share. I’m not out of shape by any means, just not particularly strong. I thought that my starting point might be encouraging to someone else stuck in the low, low, low single digits :)