M2M Day 295: Using a StairMaster as a camera tripod

Max Deutsch
Aug 22, 2017 · 2 min read

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For August, my goal is to complete one continuous set of 40 pull-ups.

After resting yesterday, I felt pretty fresh today, so I snuck in a quick workout in the morning.

On my first pull-up attempt, I was able to complete 35 pull-ups, which is a new PR for me.

You’ll notice a few things in the video:

  1. Before I start, I do a nice little shimmy to get my body warmed up. At the same time (which isn’t captured in the video), I’m breathing fairly heavily to get my heart rate up.
  2. Every time I tried to use good form, and pull my chest to the bar, I started swinging. I think this has to do with the way the handgrips are angled (since this doesn’t happen when I’m on a straight bar).
  3. Since I was alone in the gym today, I propped my phone up on a kettlebell on top of a bench. The bench is fairly low to the ground, which distorts the perspective a bit. As a result, my range of motion looks smaller than it actually was.

After watching the video and realizing the angle wasn’t best, I tried leaning my camera on a StairMaster across the gym, and going again.

I was sore from the first set, but was still able to get out 30 additional pull-ups.

Even in this video though, while my range of motion looks better, it’s still a little too short (particularly on the last 15 pull-ups).

I’m getting close…

Read the next post. Read the previous post.

Max Deutsch is a product manager at Intuit, the creator of Somebody.io and Rightspeed, and the guinea pig for Month to Master.

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