This is my house?, Too old for 20

Yesterday I got a link from my realtor for the pictures/video they shot of my house for the listing.  I could hardly believe it was my place.  Between the staging, lighting and color grading of the photos it made my house look amazing if I do say so myself.  I was really blown away.  I can only hope that perspective buyers have a similar feeling when they see it.

I took a minute or two to just think about how much of a transformation that the house has been put through in a little more than a month.  The sweat, financial and emotional equity I have invested during that time period has been high, I am hoping to reap some benefits from all of that work sooner rather than later. If you want to see all of the pics/video click here.

I talked last week I believe about how my strength has been feeling better which seems to coincide with bulking efforts.  I also talked about how I have been feeling some of that old fire from 10-12 years ago that was fueled by emotion, a powerful tool in my mental tool bag.  Yesterday on the way home a challenge popped into my head, I wanted to do 20 pull ups in one set.

I have not done a 20 pull up set in at least year, maybe more. When I am doing my daily set of pull ups at the gym I usually tap out at 16.  To get to a number like 20 requires me to endure more discomfort than I have been willing to deal with for awhile.  You have to hold in dead hang position for the last several reps while your grip is weakening from being on the bar for a long time, it’s not fun.  Up until last night I had not found myself in the mental mind frame to extend myself to get to the end.

So I grabbed my backyard bar with a bit of anger in my grip, knocked out the first 15 reps continuously and then got the last 5 with increasingly longer dead hangs on the bar in between. Grinding out that 20th rep was tough but great at the same time.  I dropped off the bar with a FU attitude, even though I had no one specifically to be mad at.  Flipping that switch felt good and I plan to weld it to the ON position for the foreseeable future.

For the first time in a long time my weekend is not overshadowed by things that need to be done for house prep although there are a small collection of related to do’s I will be working on.  I plan to finally see Black Panther 2 this weekend.  I never got out to see it in theaters (havent been to a theater in months) but it comes out on Disney + this weekend so that will be cool to finally catch. With no football this weekend I hope to do whatever else I damn well feel like.