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Not going low enough. A pullup requires you to straighten your arms completely to 180 degrees. He's not even getting to 90 degrees. It's not anything resembl
by brucephillips 9y ago
Not going low enough. A pullup requires you to straighten your arms completely to 180 degrees. He's not even getting to 90 degrees. It's not anything resembling a real pullup.
It was the one challenge video I clicked through because it seemed like the most difficult. 40 pullups is a hard task.
I wish Max wouldn't lie to market himself.
- schoen 9y agoHis definition of a pull-up for purposes of the challenge was to reach 90°, but I agree that he doesn't do so in this video. https://medium.com/the-mission/my-month-long-quest-for-40-pull-ups-e37a00e1d0d https://medium.com/the-mission/my-month-long-quest-for-40-pu... You can look at his other projects, and he seems to do well under his definitions of success. He emphasizes that he's not starting from zero with respect to (almost) any of these skills. https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/m2m-day-1-completing-12-ridiculously-hard-challenges-in-12-months-9843700c741f https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/m2m-day-1-completing-12-ridic...
- brucephillips 9y agoI could define an apple to be a banana. It doesn't make it accurate.
- mellowdream 9y agoI can run a marathon in 2 minutes. By the way, my marathons are 20 feet.