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You didn't fail, you found another way that didn't work, which takes you one step closer to what will work.

Failure is all in your head.

KPj

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Thanks TimD

couldn't train that much this month. so unfortunately no progress after the deload week.

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"his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see" - muhammad ali

thx dude!

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"his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see" - muhammad ali

I got my 12 reps. Last rep was only just though.

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Member          Type          Pre-test          Goal          Post-test
Dub             SW PU         NR                "6+"
Ephs            SW NG         4@+1.25k           4@+10k
Proper Knob     MW PU         11                 12              12
Jungledoc       MW PU         9                  10              11
robertscott     NG            NR                 10@+10k
rbt-aus         PU            3                  6
JasonJones      CU            15                 15@higher BW     16@BW+4
Travis          MG PU         9                  10               11!
medic002        CU            8                  12
stuward         PU            1                  2          2--no, make that 3-- pain-free reps
leanmuscle13    PU            8                  15       (also with an injury)

SW=shoulder width; WG=wide grip; NrG=narrow grip; CG=close grip
PU=pullup (overhand, pronated); CU=chinup (underhand, supinated); NG=neutral grip (palms facing each other)
+10#=body weight plus 10 pounds

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Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.--Francis Chan

Didn't get the 6. I started with a 5, and ended with a 5. Those migth have been better in form, and I was maybe closer to the six, but no progress yet.

I think I migth have overloaded and approached the pull-ups in a wrong way. I try to loose the frequency a little (to 2/week) and include some eccentric only work. Focus on pure form with no twitching or other BS cheating.

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Prove the impossible!

11!

overachiever

No wonder I didn't get the goal. I have "accidentally" bulked roughly 3-5kg. Whoops. Most of that is muscle, atleast according to the mirror. Of course a little fat along the way. Doing high frequency pull-ups got my lats bigger tho. So no time wasted there.

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Prove the impossible!

The trick to this challenge is to synchronize it with a cut so you finish the competition lighter than you started. That's usually good for a couple of reps. Of course an easier way is just injure your back in January and let it heal in February.

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Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.~Hippocrates
Strength is the adaptation that leads to all other adaptations that you really care about - Charles Staley
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Thanks TimD

Ah, will need to record my result as 0.
Haven't retested and didn't actually train over the month.
I don't feel bad, wife and I had a great month on many other fronts.
And the running's not going too badly. I'm succeeding with getting some volume without injuring myself.

Anybody else have results to report? February is pretty much over.

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Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.--Francis Chan

I totally forgot about it to be honest. Trained back last night but was too keen to try out pre-exhausting my lats to remember to do some chins.

You didn't do the 20 rep Christmas squat challenge either. Are you duckin'?

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What if the Hokey Cokey really IS what it's all about?

oh yeah, neither I did. I love high rep squats too. Not sure why I didn't do that one.

I promise, next challenge, I'm there (as long as it can be easily worked into my goals).