What's your Squatch?

It’s funny how sometimes I have no idea what I’m going to write about, so I drink my coffee, talk to Chris, and wait for inspiration.  As hard of a sell as he put on just putting a big giant picture of his Beastliness as my post today, I’m going to head in a different direction – sorry Chris, you’ll have to wait for Men’s Health Magazine to call you.  Or, maybe I did put a picture of his Beastliness, below.

First, I’m happy to say I got my chin TO the bar on a dead hang pull-up yesterday! I’m not over the bar yet, but I could of kissed it, it was right there!  This is my quest of 2 years, the elusive pull-up. I am determined that 2013 will be my year, that I will figure out the motion, achieve the strength, and be able to do a non-scaled version of the pull-ups during a workout.  Chris, who also struggles with the pull-up, has figured out that ring pull-ups are easier for him because of the flexibility of the movement.  He’s getting better also, so we are working toward the same goal and feel like it’s at least in our sites. 

One of the stupid, reality TV shows my family is addicted to Finding Bigfoot.  Have you seen it? The crew searches around the world for Squatches, always hearing evidence of them, talking to people who’ve seen them, looking at pictures and trying to determine validity.  They spend countless hours walking around in the dark, listening for sounds of trees banging together or whistles.  They always seem so close out there in the dark forests, but they haven’t quite gotten their hands on one.  The pull-up is my Squatch.  It’s right there, I know it, yet it still eludes me.  It mocks me, by making me watch others tackle it and achieve it quicker than me.  When I see someone at the Box bang out 10 or 20 pull-ups, I’m truly impressed, just as the Finding Bigfoot crew are impressed by the local yocals who’ve had Squatch sightings.

What’s your Squatch? We all have one.  We all have that one thing that makes us work harder, pressing toward a physical achievement that we feel compelled to master.  For many it’s a marathon, or Everest.  Not me.  It’s just a simple pull-up.  Not if, but When I achieve it, I’ll first have a big party, and then I will set my sites on something else.