Imagine there's a pull up bar on every road in every town across the country.
Kids grow up doing pull ups.
Adults randomly do pull ups.
Adults spend weekends hanging out with friends doing pull ups in pull up clubs.
We become a nation that does pull ups.
Suddenly we begin to compete at pull ups.
We do different kinds of pull ups.
People clock in crazy numbers on pull ups.
People do one arm pull ups.
We begin to appreciate elegant pull ups.
We call some pull ups sloppy looking.
We call some pull ups as not real pull ups. Some crazy b**tards put on a bag and do pull ups.
We have stadiums filled with people watching people doing pull ups.
Commentators go nuts likening good pull ups with sharks leaping out of the water.
Or bad pull ups as a fish out of water.
There is arbitrary line between sport and fitness.
The same people who argue that about the aesthetics of a forehand or cover drive will call pull ups boring or unnecessary.
That makes no sense to me.
The lines we draw in the sand about movement, exercise and sport are mostly arbitrary.
You can turn anything into a sport and learn to admire it, sustain it and build a community around it. Or you can do it alone. Hyrox, Goruck, CrossFit and emerging obstacle races are proving this.
Powerlifting and weightlifting are already fairly popular and growing quickly.
The beauty of strength sports. Very few entry barriers. And learning to do it right is much simpler than most other sports.
Takeaway
Just do pull ups
