Hi Chinners!
Okay, so you sent me off on a search, and I got mired in the deep dark depths of Link-Land. But I have finally found my way back to the top (like a rat in a maze) and I think I've figured out the strategy. So, I'm supposed to assist myself up, then go down slow, and when I can do that 3 times (at a 10 sec pace), then I try a full chin up. And then I get to eat a donut. And I get one donut per chin up. Do I have this right?
I'm doing P90X Legs and Back today, which has 8 rounds of pull/chin ups. I'll let you know how I do. It's nice to at least have a strategy. I just really couldn't see how I could go from doing 0 to 1, if there wasn't anything in between to help me work up to it.
Thank you for the warm welcomes. Why do I feel a bit like I've just walked through the doors of the Hotel California?
Catherine - how is your progress? Are you still doing one full chin up? I'm only on Day 5 of P90X, so I have a long way to go. So far I'm enjoying it. It's a dramatic change for me, and I was in need of that. I hurt everywhere, though. Well okay, there's a small muscle in my outer left thigh that doesn't hurt, but I'm pretty sure today's leg workout will take care of that.
Briee - I'm sorry to say that I do, INDEED, do yoga
If that makes me an anamoloy in the group, so be it.
Sooooooooosan - Injuries are not good. I'm glad you have chosen not to pursue it any longer. But obviously you enjoy wagging your chin with this group, and that's really what it's all about, isn't it?
And IF I ever achieve the elusive chin up, I shan't care if anyone ever talks to me again. I shall have achieved physical (and therefore moral) superiority over every other non-chin-uping human being, and will be awaiting my medal of honour which will be delivered in a peanut-packed box, delivered post-haste by the leaders of the superior-human being club. (And then you'll all be using your BB guns to deflate my ego...)
Okay, I'm off to "bring it"!
Sandra