Proper weights / reps / sets / time

Great work by everyone in the past couple of months !!!

Joe and Les both reached their goals in pull ups - Joe 15 Les 8 - Congratulations !!!

One reminder - leave your ego at the door.

If you choose a certain weight for the workout - keep it.  It stands to reason that the last round will be much more difficult than the first round - that doesn't mean drop the weight to make it easier.  If you chose a weight that was a bit too heavy (but not enough to destroy your form or get you injured), than suck it up and finish with the same weight. 

If you chose to do the advanced routine, stick with it.  Don't start with advanced number of reps / sets, than change it in mid-stream because it turned out to be far more challenging than you thought. 

I appreciate the fact you guys and gals want to push yourselves - but sometimes we bite off more than we can chew.  It's more a problem of trying too much too soon, rather than not doing enough.

That being said, pick a weight / set / rep / time that will challenge you and lead to failure at some point.  Burning through a workout because you didn't use enough weights, reps, etc does you no good.  Yes, your time was great but what did you get out of it ?  If everyone else is struggling through the workout and you whip right through it because the weights were too light, you've actually lost in the long run.

You have been doing this long enough to know what you can and can't do, what your limits are, what you are capable of.  I don't want you to lower your expectations, but I don't want you injured and I don't want you to change the workout in the middle. 

If I think you're going to heavy or doing too much, I'll tell you.  If I think you can do more, I'll let you know that too.  Trust me on it - I'm aware of what people can and cannot do, what they should or should not do.

Leave the ego at the door.