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Hey, everyone. Emily here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday on Hurtle. It's the other day I was talking to someone and it's so funny. Whenever someone comes up to me and they, we don't know each other, but maybe they listen to the show, they will say my first and last name. They will say, Emily, a body? And it's really sweet and very endearing. And also, I feel

like I've done this to myself because I very rarely say what I just said, which is Emily here.

Emily here, happy Friday. I'm happy to be here. I'm happy that we're nine days into

26 and things are feeling cautiously optimistic. I want to tell you a story about something that

happened to me at the gym the other day. I was having a frustrating moment.

I was having a moment.

If you've been hurtling with me for a second,

you know that last year was the year of the pull-up.

I was really determined to not only get my first pull-up,

but then I got two and three and four and five.

And at one point, I was at six and I

aspired to ten and then life was lifing. What really happened was that I really dove all in to

marathon training and some of that strength. It fell off. It's okay. I'm not mad at it. I'm okay. However, I was a bit

bummed that the progress on one goal stalled because I decided to put all my eggs into another

basket. I digress. I was at the gym on Wednesday morning and I've been working with

this new trainer through this app that I love. I've talked about it here before. It's called

Future. I'll link it in the show notes. I, as a part of this new work, have this really fun.

I'm so, I'm a special kind of weird and I think a lot of you are also a

special kind of weird, so we're on the same page. I have this fun pull-up variation complex

every Wednesday right now. It involves one set of eccentric pull-ups, followed by some lateral dumbbell raises. Then there is an isolated

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