K so I've been completing all of the workouts, even though I haven't been posting. I have to say, Week 5 is significantly easier than Week 4, at least Day 1 is. I attribute it to the more frequent rests, even though it's an increase of 7 from the W4D3 (I had a max of 7 in set 5). Anyways, I'm pretty excited with my progress. My max was 10 after Week 3, which was an increase of 4 from week 1. Maybe by January I'll have 20 pullups :)

So I did all of the sets today with some straining and kicking on the last 2 sets, but at least I finished. I'm looking forward to Friday becaue it's a regressive set, so I don't have to keep working harder later (except for that "MAX" part).

Anyways I'm excited to see what I get on December 1st as my new result. I'm hoping to get at least 11, which would be a gain of 5 from November 13th when I started. It's hard to believe that it's been 2 weeks. Oh well, time flies when you're havin fun.

Ok so I did Day 1 of Week 3 today. This is the first workout that I couldn't finish without cheating.

Anyways, the last set was where I lost. Everything else was fine. I did 5, and then the 6th one I got about halfway up, and then stopped moving, so I put my foot on the wall and used my toes to get the amount of leverage that I needed. It was hard as hell.

Granted, I was doing 90 sec. rest times because I forgot that I was doing Day 1 which has 120s of rest.

I figure it's good practice for Friday though with Day 2. That workout is gonna be murder. 6-5-6-5-6. Crazy.

K it's been about a week since I posted, but I've been keeping up with it. I did days 1 and 2 no problem. Day 3 was today, and I got 7 reps in as my max. I'm starting Week 3 on Wednesday, which looks like it's gonna be hard as hell with the 6-5-4-5-6, which will be 3 reps more than I did today. Doesn't sound like a lot, but they are distributed in a way that it looks like it'll be a challenge. Day 2 looks like it'll drag me to hell and back. Wish me luck.

Just finished the workout, and I had to squeeze out the last 3. Form was an issue, but I got my chin above the bar each time with no kipping action. I didn't get a chance to do dips because I didn't go to the gym, I used a pipe in my dorm. I'll find a chair to do dips on.

Here are the reps:

4
4
4
3
MAX = 6

I am pretty satisfied with these results, as I could only do 6 on my initial test. K, on to the next week on thursday.

Just finished Day 2's workout of Week 1, from the second column. I decided that I want to do dips as well, so I'm going to do each workout and then do the same amount of reps, rest and sets, as I do for pull-ups. Wish me luck!

Today:

4
3
3
4
5