u/stomachpancakes

In my 20s to early 40s, lat pull downs were a staple for me and I occasionally did bodyweight pull-ups. A few years back, lat pulldowns started to feel weird with shoulder discomfort but it ultimately led me to love the weighted pull-up motion. I've hit it every 4 to 7 days in the last 8 months doing: ~5 bodyweight for warm up, and then 3 sets each to failure, maxing out somewhere between 3 and 10 reps in each set, progressively increasing the weight to stay in that rep range. I also got proper deadhang form down (I think) as I never used to go all the way down.

Keeping pull-ups in the routine is also extra motivation to keep the body weight in check. 15.3% body fat according to my most recent DEXA.

Thought I was done hitting strength PRs in my mid-40s so I had to share this one.

We likely all know that any smart scale has a wide margin of error for body composition. For users of the Index S2 (and likely other models) I just wanted to put a number behind just how wildly off fat % can be to those who put too much faith in it.

I weigh myself every morning on my Index S2 and just got a DEXA scan. Thankfully Garmin lets you manually enter fat % in the app to create a new baseline.