5/20/21 – Freestanding Handstand Pushups :
I keep dreaming that I’ve done freestanding handstand pushups.
It’s been two to four nights in a row.
A good deal later in the day did I realize that not only was it dream, but that I’d dreamt doing freestanding handstand pushups more than one night in a row, each night in front of different people and in different situations.
5/21/21 – 50 Pullups :
Man how I thought this was real!
Now I realize it was envisioning the near future, one kid at the gym had brought a 20lb weight vest in with him, and between the trash we talk to each other I ended up the on the bar for pullups to show what a real pullup performance would be.
Near future, I was weighing about 220, and had on that 20lb weight vest.
Right now, at 260 I’ve done as many as 22 pullups, 20 on a handful of occasions over the past few weeks.
Right now, being fatigued I’m good for 15 chins daily. It’s baked in.
Consistency builds results.
You don’t need your 100% ability to be a daily performance ability.
Tiring yourself to where you get 85% of your peak out on a daily basis, then adapting to that level of fatigue, and seeing what is a performance under fatigue increase and increase until it’s passed your previous peak performance…
YOU’RE A WHOLE LOT STRONGER
Yesterday I did 15 chins as my best set for the day.
I dreamt that I did 50 pullups with a 20lb weight vest on!
In the dream I took into consideration the day’s (15 chins) performance, and decided “no I’m going to put in a real performance”, and did so.
I knew I was built lean and mean, the weight vest inconsequential, I’d recently weighed more myself than myself wearing it then (260 vs 220+20).
15 in I started thinking “there’s no need for this to be hard”.
20 in I was thinking “I’ve done 22 at 260, this is only 240, I can hit around 30”.
Around 30 I realized I was thinking, turned off conditioned limits, and just got into the moment.
I counted reps yes, something that tends to turn the brain on too much, flow state is more easily reached when you do, but do not think, just do.
I stopped at 50 reps, weighing 220, while wearing a 20lb weight vest.
As soon as I realized that I had dreamt this my immediate thought was :
“It’s possible! It can be reality!”
Persistence & Tenacity