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Messiah, what are your future plans (if any) for your blog?

I enjoyed reading all the archives before I met you and was disappointed when it suddenly ended in February.

I had (still have) big plans to be honest. I can't say much but the reason it is currently on hold is due to some things I agreed to working for a wall st firm and providing financial information outside of the entity, etc.

My original general plan was to help poker players go from -ev to +ev with their bankrolls and money management.

Messiah, I have recently made a prop bet of sorts with danzasmack. If I am able to reach some fitness goals I have set he is going to work with the recently formed Micro/SS LHE team (of which I am NOT a part). It is very important to me to achieve these goals as I would very much like to see the team do well and I think getting some free coaching from someone as good as Chuck will help them greatly.

The goals are:

6 minute mile
< 8% body fat
one arm pull up off each arm
50 pull ups
hangboard routine

The pull ups don't have to be done without stopping, but I cannot come back to the ground until I'm done.

The hangboard routine is at my climbing gym. Basically it's 10 minutes long - you have 10 tasks, and one must be completed in each minute (then you get to rest for the remainer of the minute). An example would be: 'hang for 15 seconds on the small ledge, 3 pull ups off the rounded sloper.' The routine I have chosen is hard. It's fairly continuously challenging, consisting of maybe 3-4 minutes of dead hangs and ~30 pull ups over the 10 minutes.

I will NOT have to complete all the tasks in one day, but would like to do all of them in a reasonably small number of days overall. We have not set a deadline for when I must complete everything.

I'd like to get your thoughts on this:
1) How likely do you think I am to succeed?
2) How long do you think I will need to train to reach this level?
3) Are there any particular things you think I should be doing training / diet / other to train?

I realize that a lot of your response may hinge on my current fitness level but I'm not sure what you'd want to know. As this post is already long enough, please give me an idea of what you'd need to know and I will give you the information.

Or if this is just entirely too long and obnoxious, please ignore.

Awesome post. How long from today do you have before you attempt this?

What is your current fitness level?
- # of pullups you can do straight
- Current 1 mile time
- Current bodyfat

If you are in fairly decent shape the 6 minute mile should be attainable. The key to this "prop" is how you structure the order and long you have between the 50 pullups / one arms / hangboard as these are all going to take a toll on the same muscles.

Let me know progress.

do you have any personal finance/investments book&article recommendations for an absolute beginner (poker equivalent would be a book for someone who barely knows hand rankings)

Awesome post. How long from today do you have before you attempt this?

What is your current fitness level?
- # of pullups you can do straight
- Current 1 mile time
- Current bodyfat

Chuck and I didn't set a time frame for completion.

I did 18 pull ups straight and 5 more after 'resting' while still hanging on the bar. I feel that I need to get around 35 straight to have a chance with 40 being a lock and 30 probably not being enough.

Mile time was 8:50. I was talking to my fiancée and she said my goal here is confusing. So to clarify, by 6 minute mile I mean any time beginning with 6 (so 6:59 is good). I do NOT mean a sub-6 minute mile.

My bodyfat is already below 8%. I threw that in mostly because if I gain the requisite muscle to do the upper body stuff I want to make sure I keep my body composition reasonable (very important for a climber).