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Fred Peters posted in StrongLifts.com Forum:

I did Pull-ups with the assisted pull-up machine. I know that this is discouraged, but my pride will not allow me to do the jump method or ask a stranger to assist me.

What If They Laugh? There’s nothing funny about someone struggling with Pull-ups. I see someone who wants to get better at something. You have 2 kinds of people who might laugh at you:

• People who never struggled on that Pull-up bar like you & me. They don’t know what working hard is. Ignore them. Only thing you can learn from them, is not to be like them.
• People who are conditioned to laugh at anybody who “fails”. You’re not failing. You’re working at getting stronger at Pull-ups. Ignore them. They don’t even know why they’re laughing.

Let them laugh. They won’t laugh long anyway. Check this thread in the forum: it doesn’t take long to get stronger at Pull-ups.

Stop Caring. Jason wrote this before: the trick is not to care. It hurts your ego at first, but you’ll get immune to it. Focus on achieving your goals, not on what people think.

What I do with that money may seem crazy to those sons of bitches in Houston. I’m sure it does, but it all makes good sense to me. You got that? – The Aviator.