New year started with some gains – I did 14 pull ups again!
After very busy December, January was more quiet, and it helped to stick with my training plan. Still, my plan is, to do split workout. One day upper body, next day rest, then core/lower body, rest day, and so on. So i managed to do 6 upper body and 6 lower body workouts in january.
As I wrote earlier, I had to take statins for previous two months, and in the first days of this year, I had to visit my doctor again. Good thing is, analysis shows my cholesterol level is back in norm, and I am very happy with that. I still have to take statins, but for next month, I will take a half dose, and then will see how it will work. I hope, to have less muscle pain also, because of that.
In january one more thing I had to worry about was laziness. Despite I did a lot of workouts this month, several times it was quite hard to push myself for a workout. Because it is not so enjoyable to train indoor, and I am waiting for spring and summer, to train in my backyard gym again.
So, I did 6 upper body workouts, and first one was on 5. of January, and I did 23 pull ups in total. I was interupted with some other things, so I did only 4 sets:
- 5 pull ups, +16kg
- 5 chin ups, +16kg
- 4 pull ups, +16kg
- 9 pull ups, bodyweight
January 10. I felt good and did 31 pull up in total. I was not exausted till the last set and did 9 bodyweight pull ups at the end.
- 5 pull ups, +15kg
- 5 chin ups, +15kg
- 4 pull ups, +15kg
- 4 pull ups, +15kg
- 4 pull ups, +15kg
- 9 pull ups, bodyweight
Next workout on January 17. A week since last training, but it was not because of laziness. I had third covid vaccine, and have some issues for a few days. I had higher temperature next day, and 3 days has pain under my arm in armpit. It was too uncomfortable to do any activites during those days. Before workout I realized, I have not changed my routine for a while, and so I decided to include L-sit pullups in few sets. Also, I got few weight discs from my brother-in-law, and finally I could increase weight of my weighted pull ups a little bit. I did 34 pull ups that day.
- 5 pull ups, +16.5kg
- 5 chin ups, +16.5kg
- 6 L-sit pull ups
- 4 pull ups, +16.5kg
- 6 L-sit pull ups
- 8 pull ups, bodyweight
January 21. Added one more kg to my weighted pull ups weight. +1 kg means a lot, and I was quite exhausted after weighted pull up sets. Did 32 pull ups in total.
- 5 pull ups, +17.5kg
- 5 chin ups, +17.5kg
- 5 L-sit pull ups
- 3 pull ups, +17.5kg
- 8 pull ups, bodyweight
- 6 pull ups, bodyweight
January 26. Good workout, as I did 7 sets and did 40 pull ups in total
- 5 pull ups, +17.5kg
- 5 chin ups, +17.5kg
- 5 L-sit pull ups
- 3 pull ups, +17.5kg
- 5 L-sit pull ups
- 9 pull ups, bodyweight
- 8 pull ups, bodyweight
January 31. Last day of month and I decided to do only bodyweight sets this time and did 44 reps in total
- 14 pull ups, bodyweight
- 9 chin ups, bodyweight
- 8 pull ups, bodyweight
- 7 pull ups, bodyweight
- 6 pull ups, bodyweight
Finally I did some progress and did 14 pull ups again!
But my push ups was not so good because I had some pain in my sternum again, especialy when I tried to do straight bar dips and similar exercises. I am worried about it, because straight bar dips are essential for my target – muscle-up. I am doing several push up variations, just to engage my chest with something similar. Also, I pay a lot of attention to the range of motion of my push-ups, working on quality and good form. I will start doing dips again after a month or two, when my backyard gym will be opened again 🙂