Ya'll!

At the risk of my good friend Esteban telling me to stop bragging, I have something to share.

(Big surprise, I know)

Remember when I did that pull-up challenge back in July of 2018?

Or, more correctly, when I failed the pull-cup challenge?

In a video on June 15 that year (https://tinyurl.com/2p8ajrpr at 1:19), I very gracefully demonstrated my inability to do so much as a single pull-up.

I tried like hell, but couldn't get my chin over the bar.

Not even close.

The point of the challenge was getting to the point, over ten weeks, that you could do 20 pull-ups.

At the time, that felt impossible.

And I felt like a loser over the ten weeks because I could not get to 20 while other folks doing the challenge got past 20.

Plus, it didn't help that I had a client who could do 100 pull-ups at once.

But despite it seeming impossible, I decided that I wanted to be able to do 100 pull-ups.

Maybe not all at once, but at least during a single workout.

Well, welcome to 2023, baby!

It might have taken me five years, but I knocked out 101 proper pull-ups during a 54-minute workout last Friday.

I'm still stoked about it.

But my stoke isn't the point.

Over the last five years, when I've mentioned my progress, lots of people have said, "Man, I'd love to be able to X number of pull-ups, but hell, I can't even do one."

Well, me neither!

Not one.

And because I was comparing myself to people in better shape than me, I felt like a loser.

But, like a bazillion other things, it's not about winner vs. loser.

It's about doing vs. not doing.

Practice vs. not practice.

Commitment vs. lack of commitment.

Getting off your ass vs. sitting on your ass.

So the point is, if you've got something you want to do, go fucking do it!

Ain't nobody stopping you.

And who cares if it takes 5 or 10 or 15 years or if it's really hard?

When you get there, it will have been totally worth it.

100%

And it's a lot easier than just waiting around to die.