What's going on, everyone, everyone, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to another installment of

Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. Y'all, I am on cloud nine. I'm on cloud nine because yesterday

I landed my first unassisted pull-up since, goodness, eight years ago, 2016.

Let me tell you, in 2016, I was in a big CrossFit phase.

I don't know.

Many of you that have been around these parts for that long, but I fell head over heels in love

with CrossFit for about two years from 2015 to 2017. And during that time, I was exposed

for the first time to so many of the things that I've loved doing today, primarily

Olympic lifting. And I worked for so long, I remember, to get that first pull up, which I didn't

hold onto for all that long because pulling up and lifting and moving your own body weight is not an easy

thing. So I know you're wondering, how did you get to this point yesterday? Well, let me tell you.

In April of this year, I completely changed the way that I started training. I was working one-on-one with a coach, and I'm still

working with the same coach, and we were able to shift from using dumbbells and kettlebells in

the gym that's in my building to a barbell heavy approach because I joined a different gym.

My reason for joining the gym is that I was in this place where I knew that nothing

changes if nothing changes.

And I was feeling a little stuck, stagnant in my body and wanted to try training differently to see if it

would make a difference for me. And so the gym that I chose was one that had all of the bells

and whistles, all of the available equipment. And I knew that I would be able to get back into Olympic lifting,

something that I had previously really enjoyed until I got injured in 2017. So with all this said,

I have been training in this way, which is about four days a week, focusing on a few different

Olympic lifting movements and then supplemental

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