One week down on my pull up / push up program. Best I can say is: I’m on schedule. I typically do 5 sessions throughout the day, each session being 4, 3, 2 and then 1 pull up (for a total of 10) followed by two sets of 10 push ups.
I tell you though, I had no idea how mentally draining this program would be. Doing these sessions of push ups & pull ups has taken an astounding amount of mental energy. I haven’t had the motivation to work out at all outside of this program, except for one jog on Tuesday. None of the planned lower body weight sessions happened.
And my wrist hurts. Same one I broke when I was nine (and the same arm I broke again a few years back). I’m pretty sure the solution is to start doing my pushups on bars or my fists instead of flat palms.
Actually, while researching wrist pain and push ups today I read that doing push ups with your weight on the heel of your hand is bad form… it puts too much strain on the wrist. They recommend imagining that there is a marble under your palm, so that you cup your palm and put the weight across your five fingers. This transfers the weight from the wrist joint to the muscles of the forearm. Maybe I’ll try that in week 3. For now, I’m going to try the more “neutral” position to give my wrist a break.
I guess most frustrating is that I’m really not sure I’m getting stronger doing this. Logically I must be; there is no way all these pull ups & push ups aren’t going to have at least some positive effect. But I don’t see it yet.
Ah well. Two weeks and two days to go.
