I am very early into my exciting effort to make my way to somewhere around 1000 very high quality reps a day. The idea is to stick with form and to not blow it out and to gradually increase the numbers without compromising form. Yesterday I managed around 10 sets (I think more, actually, and it's good that I don't know for sure) of about 5 very high quality pull ups, 10 very high quality push ups, 7 dips, 5 high knee raises and 10 squats. I woke up today as excited about this effort as I was yesterday. That's good. But already today I started thinking about numbers. I thought that since I managed 5 good pull up reps yesterday all day without a problem, I should be able to handle 6 today. Problem! I also found myself in my second session for the day trying to remember how many total sets I'd done up to that point. Again, problem! Stop it!
So I forced myself to stop it. Like in meditation, return to the breath. I forced myself to shoot for FEWER reps with better form. I brought the chest ALL THE WAY up to the bar for maybe 4 pull ups. I paused my squats at the bottom and sometimes even at the top. I did not set myself a mental goal of how many sets I would do for that session and instead went with the feel.
That's progress.
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