20kg and growing

Yes, I have added up to 20kg today. No, it's not my weight I am talking about.

This is the weight I am adding to myself, in the form of iron bar plates, during my strength training sessions. I am doing 5 reps of chin-ups with these dead weights. I have been working with these weights for the past 2 weeks but everytime, the weight gain has been in slow increments.

Today, at the end of the 4th (and last) set, under the 'encouragement' or 'instigation' from Ben, I piled an extra 7.5kg to the usual load and went for an extra set. I realised I could make 3 good reps!!! A silent 'wow' to myself. 20 kilograms! That's 4 bags of rice! Ok, maybe just the standard packaging type... Still, I was really happy. The next moment was even more wonderful; I dropped the weights and did another 3 more pulls. My body felt paper-light! Ha! Suz was joking that this is probably how Sibin felt all the time when he climbs. And I do believed her...

I am glad that I could start to feel some results after these 2 weeks. Mental note to self: keep at it, persevere and go for 5 set of 5 reps with 20kg!

And that 7b doesn't seem so far now...