Our brain is silly sometimes: it tries to make us lazy. During workouts, we are only exerting about 40%, at most. One quick hack is to half-count your reps. For example: if you are used to doing 10 pull ups, count your pull ups such that two reps equal one. You will be pleasantly surprised to still hit your 10 reps, when you actually have done 20.
Update July 2022: when starting this half count system, at first your brain will know what’s going on. If you are aiming for 20 pull ups and you half count, your brain knows you are attempting 20 and tell you to stop at 15, for example. If you keep pushing and half counting, at some point your brain stops fighting you. It thinks 20 equals 10. I am at a point now where all my workouts are half counted and my brain does not mind – that’s wiered to say. I guess the next step may be to count three for one.
Have fun!
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