Day 47 was an excellent day off with my day starting as it usually does with morning cardio and deep stretching. In fact, I was ambitious and hit 30 minutes of cardio (10 minutes each on treadmill, elliptical & recumbent bike), then a relaxing 20 minute stretch session. My stretch session was heavily focused on my tight lower body; primarily my hip flexors and hamstrings due to all the sitting I do at my office desk writing (these blogs and my books, but no complaints here, I love my work).
Day 48 was a fantastic low intensity secondary priority training day with work on the assisted pull up machine. You will find the video attached above for the footage and accompanying commentary. I placed the assist at 95 pounds and performed 100 alternating single arm pull ups. This was tough and you may notice that my form begins to fail toward the end. Oddly, I have had issues on my right side, but it was my left side that the range of motion begins to decrease as the exercise progresses.
I'm super thankful for my viewers on the YouTube channel suggesting a recording of a session. This helped me evaluate my form and build on that for future sessions. Though the exercise set was not impossible, I still accomplished it with only a few times that I braced my biceps on the pull up.
The day after tomorrow will be priority training day and I will shoot for as many bodyweight pull ups in a row as possible with the goal of completing 100 total in as little time as possible. In the very near future I will have the priority training day recorded, since I don't have many people jumping at the "exciting" opportunity to record a pull up session (cough, cough).
I'll see you in a couple of days!
-Dale L Roberts
One Jacked Monkey
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