M2M Day 295: Using a StairMaster as a camera tripod
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:
- 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.
- 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).
- 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…
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