How to pullup in Zim

If you find yourself in Zimbabwe and suddenly realize that you cannot go one entire year without doing you’re favorite fitness exercise, these are some guidelines and tips you might follow.

Step 1

Ask you’re coworkers and family if there is a place to buy two big poles and metal bars. If they don’t know about such things (even dough they have just purchased some for their yard and/or garage), just look around in you’re local industry area.

Step 2

When and if you are able to find the materials you need, be sure you have some friends or coworkers who are able and willing to drive the materials, preferably as dangerous and reckless as possible, to you’re construction site. Be aware of possibilities that ongoing traffic might drive of the road if you’re driving coworker is “bold” enough. But don’t worry, if you have a white person in you’re passenger seat everything goes..

Step 3

If you decide to go for the “drilling of holes in the poles” technique, be aware that electricity can and probably will be absent for days. A better solution would probably be to use some rope to tie the bar to the poles.

Step 4

Persuade a friend or possibly a sibling to help you with the construction, by starting to dig some knee-deep holes where you want the chin rack placed.

Tip: It might help if you assure this person that this will only take 30min, and that you have done this a dozen times before.

Step 5

If and when you discover that the holes are in fact 2cm to small for the bar to pass through (even dough you specifically informed of what size was needed several times), find a knife or a pickaxe and start making the holes bigger. Meanwhile you should encourage you’re friend/sibling that this will be done before sundown.

Use a hammer or sledgehammer to root the poles in the ground and put some gravel or some bricks around the stem in the earth.

Tip: If you get photographed while the sun is going down, be prepared that you’re friend/sibling might be amazed by how WHITE you actually are..

Step 6

Apologize to you’re friend/sibling about the time of construction.

Tip: Try to get a tan while in Zimbabwe, so that you don’t look like a total oaf next to you’re African friends.

Enjoy the construction the following day, because now it is probably to dark and the whole neighborhood has showed up to watch this white guy doing some labour =)