• berryjam@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          I don’t have much advice to offer other than do a lot of pulling. I’m also aiming to get my first pull-up this year :) Working up to it with lat pull-downs and dead hangs.

          • My goal is to bench and row my body weight (target weight 50kg, current weight 55kg), while squatting and dead lifting 150% of my body weight.

            I’ve met my squat and dead lift goals (and then some). My trainer says I was blessed with, and I quote, “sturdy peasant legs”. But I have spaghetti strand arms apparently, so my bench has plateaued at 35, and you know my row.

            Someday, though. And despite the frustration, I’m still doing amazingly better than I was when I started this 2½ years ago. (And there’s been amusing things like my SO getting scared by the fact that I can hip thrust his weight … with ease. 🤣)