In it, he suggests that men should have a goal of 12 pullups. They are a key measure of upper body strength. Also, at least when I say pullup, I mean palms facing away and not all that "swinging" or "kipping" or other tricks. Nope, just raise and lower. Simple.
Pullups are a weak area for some people, but I suggest that the only way to build up to doing12 is to do some during every workout, or at least quite frequently. I do most of my weight lifting exercises on Mon, Weds, Fridays. On the weekends, I tend to be out hiking in the Georgia mountains with my dogs.
Currently, my maximum is 13 pullups, but it did not used to be that way. Well actually, it used to be better, and then it got slowly worse, and then it was horrible, and now I'm headed in the right direction. Here's a short history of my life of pullups:
Age Pullups
21 17 - Was young, used to be a swimmer...
31 8 - Look what 10 years of not doing pullups will do
37 3 - Injured shoulder painful. Learned about the Supraspinatus
45 13 - Look what doing pullups in your workout routine can do after 18 months.
I keep a log of all my workouts, so the first graphs is monthly totals for the past year - An average of 389 pullups per month. You'd think hitting 500+ pullups in a month would be easy... but it hasn't been that way for me. Especially if you skip a day or two.
My inspiration for working out is Shana A. of Crossfit East Decatur. I don't belong to her gym, but I do follow along on the facebook page and CFED Web Site. Once I saw a workout where she must of have done
My goal by my birthday in August is a max of 15. Who knows, I might even try to get to 17 by then.
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This is the prior year - Average of 119 per month. There were a couple months during this year that I traveled internationally, so I basically missed the whole month of November.
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