I added one new streak in 2026.
I decided that every day I would do one more pull-up than the day before.
Here’s the first thing. I don’t do pull-ups.
I do chin-ups. There is a difference, and my body does not like pull-ups. Here’s the second thing, I cheat.
I do the chin-ups in my basement and I’m too tall to hang freely. So I have my feet slightly on the ground before each chin-up. I also sometimes slightly kip-up on the last one or two in a set.
I don’t why I feel the need to tell the world about this, but honesty is my top priority.
Here’s the the third thing, it takes forever to do 200 chin-ups. Did you know the world-record for chin-ups in a minute is 57. At world-record pace it will still take you four minutes to do 200 chin-ups.
According to this random website the most chin-ups in three minutes is 105. So realistically no one could do 200 in under six minutes. The pace for most chin-ups in 24-hours is 5.2/min. 39 minutes to do 200 chin-ups.
Here’s what I’m saying. This is a stupid-ass streak.
I force myself to do reps of fifteen now. If I’m cruising, I can do them in thirty seconds. That means it takes me seven minutes just do the actual chin-ups.
That’s seven minutes of work. It is fourteen reps. That is thirteen resting periods. I can’t just rip-off one set after another.
Chin-ups are an anerobic activity.
Doing as many chin-ups as you can as quickly as you can is an aerobic activity.
To efficiently complete the goal, I should break up the reps throughout the day. Do as many as I can every hour of the day.
I don’t have the discipline or desire to do this.
The chin-ups would become a 10-times per day chore instead of a one-time-a-day pain in my ass.
So I tried to do as many as I could. As fast as I could.
I did 50 in four minutes. 100 in ten minutes. 150 in 17 minutes. 200 in 24 minutes.
I don’t know if I can make it to 365.
