sometime early in the month of march i bought a chin up bar. I was told by my friend Kevin, whom i usually go to for fitness tips and exercise questions, to get myself a chin up bar and do chin ups everyday…. as many as i can. And so i listened to him… i thought it’d be a good investment anyways. I went out and purchased one of those P90x Chinup Bars. They don’t require any mounting hardware so they can be mounted on most door frames without any drilling or screwing to the door frame.

Since the beginning of March i’ve been working on doing chinups. Last year at christmas time, about the time when i stopped going to the gym due to christmas holidays, i was able to barely complete 1 unassisted chinup. It was pretty hard for me.

During the time between Decemeber and March i stopped going to the gym on a regular basis… yeah that was a bad move on my part. But i’ve been maintaining my weight thus far. I wasn’t going to the gym but i was still doing push ups every few nights of the week as well as dips. I’d use the kitchen counters where they made a corner and i’d do dips there. Also on a side note… i couldn’t really do dips that well either last year between August and December. But i am able to complete 3 full sets of 10 now… it’s great! I feel great! ….anyways… back to chinups… in the beginning of March i could do maybe 2, 2 and a half. SO great… i’ve progressed since december.

But since the beginning of March i’ve done chinups everyday, as many as i could every morning when i wake up and every night before i go to bed. I got up to about 4.5 chinups about 2 weeks ago. I was barely progressing as fast as i’d hoped… so i went to Kevin.

Kevin told me to start doing negatives. Negative chin ups are chin ups where you start from the top…. where you are already pulled up. But you lower yourself for a count of 3. then you do it again until you can’t do it anymore. He said, “do all your chinups and then do your negatives until you can’t hold yourself up anymore.”

Do i did that, and immediately after 2 days of doing negatives i was able to crank out that 5 chinup. And now i’m progressing nicely. This morning i am up to about 7 chinups already. A pretty amazing feat for someone who could barely do one in december.

some chin up tips can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/c4skt6