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Originally Posted by mineistaken
How are you feeling during non summer seasons, results diminish?
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(apologies for the wall of text, no tl;rd)
Somewhat, depends if I get lazy or not. I don't work out with a schedule or with a set programs like one day one part of body and other days other parts. my work out is my own "lazy yoga routine/method". I do stretching, relaxing and some strength exercises regularly but make it like a play, doing it for fun so to say, whenever I take breaks or feel like it.
Pull ups replaced with push ups, and push ups actually are great starting point before hopping on a bar for beginners. You can do variety of push ups with different hand distances and body angles to focus on different areas of shoulders, chest, upper back and hands; sit ups, crunches, duck walking. I try many different exercises from pilates and yoga asanas to find most effective ones for body areas that I want to improve and then spend good amount of time practicing them but I'm no expert, more like beginner-intermediate level.
2 years ago I was in pretty bad shape, feeling bad, soar and cranky, and all my life I've been very skinny, no meat. I'm in my early 40s now. Today, although far from great shape, I'm much better toned and stronger than I've ever been and it's just the beginning for me.
Getting back to your question, here's an example of pull ups results for the past two years:
- May 2015, started going to a pull up bar, could do barely 5 pull ups hanging like a soft dildo, lol. After about two weeks I was doing 10-12 on a first set.
- End of September 2015 my record was 24 pull ups. I was doing comfortably 20-25 on a first set in October.
- Skipped 5 months or so, doing push ups here and there, 50-70 each time few times a day. By the end of winter got lazy.
- April 2016, first time on a pull up bar did 12 or 15, after a week was doing 20, after another week or so got my record up to 28 pull ups.
- This summer got my abs to show up modest 6 pack with flat, lean stomach
been doing pull ups with straight legs in front holding horizontally in 90 degree angle of upper body, I call them "pull ups with angle" and also doing some other things on a bar.
Now my goal for this winter is to learn and get comfy doing hand-stands without wall support. It's tough to get it into daily routine, but I know if I hit the wall several times a day, it's doable.