Can you do pull-ups?

[KRS]

Well the way I learned was using an assisted pull-up machine, and it worked for me. I did slowly wean myself off of it, by continuing to decrease the weight that was assisting me. One of my big accomplishments I will say. And it definitely is an exercise that impresses many at the gym.

 

[makedah]

You ladies are amazing. Thanks for your tips. I'm going to try the negatives, and if I can't even do that, then I'll try the Gravitron.

 

[vinylgroover]

I know it's inappropriate for this thread, but nothing gives me a woodie more than seeing a girl repping out on pull-ups. There's something primal about it

Now carry on

 

[Woody]

wife

Well, my wife can do a set of 5.....with a 45 lb. plate hanging from her waist . Hell, I can't do that, , but she's got quite a wingspan

 

[VeggieLifterChick]

Yep. I do sets of 5. I started in late August able to do 1 (2 on a great day), and I s-l-o-w-l-y progressed. And I agree, it definitely does impress at the gym.

 

[BuffChick77]

I am able to do 5-8 pullups per set on the assist. machine, like KRS, I will wean my self off of the ass. machine. I will however try and do as many unassisted pull ups as possible (sadly, i'm able to do 2 maybe 2.5). I'm with you on this makedah, i am DETERMINED to do pull ups on my own- just keep working at it, you'll get there!!!

 

[makedah]

Soooo....

I tried the "slow eccentrics" today. I got up on a chair, grabbed the chin bar, stepped off.... and damn near yanked my arms out of their sockets. I scuttled my butt right on over to the Gravitron.

 

[princess]

typically, i can do 2 sets of 8 (wide-grips), then on the third set, i always seem to die around 5 or 6 reps.

with narrow grips, i can usually squeeze out 10-12.

its kinda frustrating, because i used to be able to do more reps, and was even doing weighted reps for a little while...but i was also around fifteen pounds lighter at that time! oh well...

 

[SteelWeaver]

Ha ha - did these with my trainer last night - she was calling them pull-ups. *I* was calling them drop-downs, ha ha ha ha haa. My problem is, every time I start working on them, building up from negatives, etc., my diet/weight changes, and then I'm back where I started - nowhere. Sigh. It doesn't help that I'm so big to start with.

But with this thread as my witness, I now guarantee, vow, that by this time next year, I will be doing a minimum of sets of 10, wide-grip, overhand, if not sets of 15, if not just possibly with added weight.

That, along with a 315 lb deadlift.

And my back will be gorgeous

 

[Candi Barr]

Makedah, here's the link to the article I used http://www.testosterone.net/html/body_100back.html. Could you control the descent at all? Even if you couldn't last the 30 seconds? I tried for quite awhile to work up to bodyweight chins & dips by pushing up from a box on concentrics, and trying to push less and less (I have never seen a gravitron machine) but it was the slow eccentrics that did it, and relatively fast too. Maybe doing some other exercises hanging from the bar (knee raises, shrugs) would help.