Today concluded nine weeks of P90X. I had a great Stretching X workout. I'm getting more and more limber. Blah, blah, blah. Here's the real news, folks. My pull up bar has been installed and is ready for action! No longer do I have to throw an exercise band over one of the fire sprinkler pipes and do simulated pull ups. Now I can do the real thing!I ordered an excellent pull up bar from http://studbarpullup.com for only $140. The bar is 4' wide and made of heavy duty steel. My son, Ryan, mounted it to my cement ceiling in the garage and this bar ain't going nowhere. It will support over 2,000 pounds. When the pull up bar arrived in the mail a few weeks ago, I realized I had ordered the wrong size. I ordered a bar for a 10' ceiling and my ceilings are 9.5'. Fortunately, a good friend and client of mine, Gerald Huff of J&J Fire Protection, modified the bar and provided me with all of the hardware to mount it to my ceiling. Thanks, Gerald.
I do have one problem, however. Before my triple bypass in April of this year, I could do three pull ups. Tonight when I tried, I couldn't do a single pull up. If you look at the photo, that was as high as I could pull myself up. To do a full pull up, I had to put one leg on a chair for additional support. That's how they advise you to do in the P90X videos, but I was still disappointed as I watched Ryan effortlessly crank out 15 pull ups.
The good news is that my workouts will be changing. These pull ups, even when using the modified chair approach, are still much harder than using bands. I believe I will get better results and hopefully someday be able to one pull up unaided. Maybe in a couple of years, I'll even be able to do two pull ups.
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