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Played dota after quite a long hiatus from it... did pretty shitty against AIs.. O well.. Watched max payne as well after that at cathay and the action scenes are pretty good but there's one problem with it.. max payne's little pistol doesnt run out of bullets as pointed out by keat and jh. lol.. According to Gerald who played both max payne 1 and 2 he said that the "soldier's angel" creature flying around isnt in the game. Its pretty much just for the effect of the hallucinations of the drug.

After which we had dinner at meridian's food court when Joanne joined us and if memory didnt fail me we all had korean food. Played pool after that which is also something i have not done for months. Thats just about how i usually spend my saturdays after 5 days of wasting your life away in the office. 47 hours to be exact of total time spent in the office of a normal week. 47 hours that i can never get back! ugh.. damn.

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Anyway recently i have a friend who asked me what is the best way to increase his bodyweight pull up numbers.

The answer's pretty simple. By doing more pull ups. Not by doing some other fancy exercises trying to get better at pull ups but just by simply .. doing more of the specific exercise.

As Pavel Tsatsouline theory states that Success= Specificity + Frequency. For those who dont know who this guy is.. i'll give you alittle background on him.

Pavel Tsatsouline, Master of Sports, is a former physical training instructor for the Soviet Special Forces, currently a subject matter expert to the U.S. Marine Corps, the National Nuclear Security Administration/U.S. Department of Energy, and the US Secret Service. - Dragondoor.com

This guy here is one whom you should listen to when it comes to physical training. ok anyway .... Success here in this case means to get your pull up numbers up .. duh.. Specificity here means the exercise you want to zero into. and frequency... means how often you do it.

Pavel conducted a little experiment on this..and this experiment is done say on Person X. Person X can do 10 pull ups at max for example. So... what he is suppose to do is to perform 5-7 pull ups throughout the day as many times as possible without burning out. (Pavel is an advocate of not over training and taxing your CNS). This IS VERY IMPORTANT. You are NOT suppose to force out the last few reps just for you to get the number of pull ups required. You ARE supposed to feel just as fresh after performing each set of pull ups as compared to before doing them. So say person X does 5 pull ups for 20 times through out the day... he has completed a 100 pull ups and yet not feeling signs of fatigue.

There are other ways to go about this.. you can do sets of 7 or 8 even if it feels fine and doesnt tax your body. But then you will probably be doing fewer sets throughout the day. There is no hard and fast rule on this.. and only you and you alone will know which one is working best for you.

By doing this you're "Greasing the groove" on the lift and your body will be able to perform it with much greater ease.

Check this article out- http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode3/220/

Have fun with it and have your numbers sky rocket in no time.

-Clement