Did my first unassisted chin up!!

[katrina_lynn]

Ok, so none of my friends really understand my fitness obsession, so I had to come share this here. I have been a scrawny little weakling my entire life. I have been working on trying to do unassisted chin ups for probably 4 years now. At first I couldn't even pull myself up an inch! I got discouraged and kept cycling in and out of whether I would keep working on it or not. Well, yesterday I did my very first unassisted chin up!!!!!!!!! Just had to share with people who understand how exciting it is to accomplish a fitness goal

 

[elsie3]

Kudos! You should be very proud of your hard work--that is quite an accomplishment. I can empathize with how hard it is.

 

[workout]

Katrina Lynn: Congratulations!!! That is definitely a huge accomplishment. Be proud of yourself!!

 

[cokonkel]

Congratulations!!! That is awesome!

 

[mbmundt]

Congrats!!! That is awesome!!

Be very proud of yourself!

Brenda

 

[Nanbo]

WAHOO!!!​

Way to go!!!!​

 

[Mariposa1973]

Congratulations

 

[msmik]

That is amazing!!!

 

[Trixoo]

Wow, fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

 

[aprilrain]

That's great! Doing chin ups is one of my workout goals. How did you work up to it?

 

[katrina_lynn]

Thanks everyone. It was quite an exciting accomplishment for me. In the past year I really got serious about it. At the beginning of each of my strength training workouts I would do a set of 5 negative chin ups. As I got stronger, I would start out with just trying to pull myself up as far as I could for the first set then finish with negatives. One day a week I also did assisted chin ups with a resistance band. A lot of work for my long gangly arms, but I finally did it!!

 

[Bubachick]

Way to go Awesome Be very proud of yourself

Brigitte

(And I just can't help myself, I can be a little corny sometimes)

Way to hang in there!

 

[vbrady]

Way to stay with it Katrina Lynn! You go, girl!!!