#98 Do Cool stuff. Inspire people. It doesn't matter if it takes 13 years.

It started with a chat with one of the youngsters at the gym that I go to in the sauna.

I say youngsters.

He's probably early 20s.

And every Friday, I chat to this guy, same guy.

We chat in the sauna.

And he just casually dropped into conversation that he'd done a muscle-up.

Now, for those of you unsure about what a muscle-up is, it's like a pull-up, but instead of pulling yourself up so that just your chin is over the bar, you pull yourself up and your whole body is over the bar, so the bar is basically sitting at your waist.

So imagine pull-up, but going all the way up through until you're up and over the bar.

You thought, I'm just going to try it, and I did it.

So that was his version of events.

And I said, hey, that's pretty cool.

I've been trying for ages to do a muscle-up.

It was on my goals for 2024.

And he said, ah, you could totally do it.

Now, like I said, I'd been wanting to do one for ages.

And technically, I did manage one last year in 2025.

But I'm kind of...

Not really counting it because I was starting at the top of the muscle-up.

I got some tips from my mate to say, if you want to get your first muscle-up, start at the top.

So I climbed up to the top of the bar and swung myself down and used the momentum to swing myself back up.

So I was pretty pleased with myself at the time, but I have thought, I do really need to get to doing it off the ground.

And he said he just gave it a shot and he did it.

and I thought if this guy can do it I can jolly well do it so the next week I just went for it I thought that guy with no training no calisthenics skills necessarily and he reckons he can do it and he did it I thought I jolly well need to do this so Stepped up to the bar, looked at the bar, pumped myself up and said, come on, you can do this.

Jumped up, swung myself forward, swung myself back as hard as I could, smashed my arms down and pulled myself up over the bar.

I was pumped as anything.