I’m in the penultimate stage of the New Rules program. Stage 6 is the increasing-strength-relative-to-body-weight stage, in which one of the exercises is a negative chin-up. I’ve had to adjust that because I’m really too heavy for that to work. So I’ve gone to an assisted pullup with the weight set so I’m pulling about 120 pounds. Which is still pretty difficult, but I *can* do multiple, albeit somewhat ugly, sets of it.
Really getting a good amount of soreness along my sides and shoulders, though less each time I do it. I’m good and winded after each set, and the tiredness that sets in, especially when I get into bed after an evening workout, flexing and stretching as I settle in, is just delicious.
Absolutely fantastic.