![]() 100 per day would definitely be too easy.ġ,000 in 7 days was the wiser choice and would still be a challenge □ I hit 99 (33 sets) some time before midnight, then did a few extra to finish the day with 103.īased on that day, I felt the 100-700 challenge would be possible but would literally take over my whole life for the week and probably end in an injury (or three or four). It started getting sore-ish around 50, but as long as the rest was long enough I could always manage to a set of 3 whenever I tried. And it started getting annoying to interrupt what I was doing just for 3 pull-ups, so I preferred to stay in the garage and do at least a few sets each time. Of course it didn’t quite work out that way, sometimes I was in the middle of something so just offed the alarm, and then had to “catch up” some sets so I was doing 3 or 4 sets in a row. Which meant super short sets (about 10 seconds) followed by a 20 minute rest! About as low intensity as you can get, and also meant it was easy to fit in during the day.įollowing that math it was supposed to work out to 9 pull-ups an hour, so I’d reach 100 after 11 hours. So I set the timer on my phone to go off every 20 minutes, then I would go into the garage and do 3 pull-ups. Of course that is not practical in the gym because you’ll be there for five hours trying to finish your workout, but for a home challenge like this it was perfect. Even 10 minutes between sets is good, or even longer. But Pavel’s advice was that really long rest periods is one of the best ways to build strength. Specifically I’m talking about his idea of short sets and long rests – when most people lift weight they do a set, then rest for a minute or less, then go onto the next one, and often try and make the rests even shorter for bigger pumps. That might sound low, but I was thinking of the advice of Russian guru Pavel Tsatsouline, who I learned a ton from during his podcast with Joe Rogan (I actually just pulled it up now to get the link for it and have been sitting here watching it again for half an hour, couldn’t stop!) The game plan for Day 1 was to start with sets of 3.
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