Can you do pull-ups?

[Friscochick]

hee hee thanks girls!!! Congrats to you too!!!

 

[poohbear]

5 sets of 8 pull-ups
4 sets of 8 chin-ups

I lost 15 lbs. and that made it a lot easier. About a decade ago, i could only do about three, but I incorporated negatives into my routine. After a few weeks, I was able to go up to 12 regular reps.

Stick to it and never get discouraged

 

[Puddles]

I just tried doing wide grip pull-ups 2 weeks ago. Last week I could only do 2 and couldn't pull myself up again for a second set. This week for the first set I got 3, then 2 on the second set followed by 6 lat pull downs of my near bodyweight at 140. I'm 5'3"weighing 143 at 18.5%bf. I've been using the gravitron for the past 6 months with a lot of assistance doing 3 sets of 12 - 15 reps. Last week I lowered the assistance dramaticly and again this week. I can't do as many reps but I think pushing myself with more weight and less reps really helps the muscles develop...it has for everything else. Now I'll be incorporating the unasisted pull-ups early in my workout followed by the gravitron later in my routine. I do back once a week.

 

[makedah]

Go MrsPuddles, go!

 

[I'D RATHER BE DEADLIFTING]

This is what I do for my girlfriend. She had been slowly progressing on pullups. Started with only 1 rep. Few weeks later 2 reps. Up to 3 reps, but she wanted more. I got this from Elitefts.


I set up a light Jumpstretch band(purple/pink) choked around the chin bar. I have her put both her feet in the band. As she goes down, the band stretches and basically assists her on the way up. Near the top she gets little to no assistance. She's been doing these for a few weeks and can do sets of 10. She gets a much better back workout this way. We are going to slowly work her down. Probably go to 2 mini bands next, then 1 mini and then no assitance.

Give it a shot.

 

[wateengedoe2]

Yup, elastic bands are a good way, and also, if the bar is low, you could help yourself with your leg(s). But that's probably hard, because you're very likely to support yourself a bit too much on the way up. Anyway, I don't have this 'problem' in my gym, because the bar is so high I have to stand on a bench and then reach as high as I can I learned my pullups by getting assistance from (most of the times) the gym owner, and now can do 2 reps, almost 3 (hope to do three next week)

 

[Fyre]

I missed out on this thread, since I was off galavanting from place to place.

I've finally started doing weighted chins - either 4 sets of 5 or 3 sets of 6 with 10 lbs. I do them with two hand grips - under and hammer. I haven't done over, wide grips in a little while, but was doing sets of 6 when I did them consistently. Now I'm working on bumping up the weight. I'm eyeballing that 45 lb. plate...

That's the whole key - you have to do them consistently. At least once a week, or better yet, start every lift with one set to failure. That's how I developed my initial chinning strength.

Wow, weighted chins...u go girl! I have trouble enough doing regular chins. I'm okay with the undergrip but it's the over grip wide pullups that I have trouble with.

 

[JJFigure]

Went up to 15 lbs. last week for 4x4s.

Then, I did a lighter workout later in the week (my hypertrophy workout) with slow chins - pause at the bottem and get a good stretch, then pull up slowly till chest hits the bar. Damn, those felt good!

 

[Fyre]

Went up to 15 lbs. last week for 4x4s.

Then, I did a lighter workout later in the week (my hypertrophy workout) with slow chins - pause at the bottem and get a good stretch, then pull up slowly till chest hits the bar. Damn, those felt good!

Way to go JJ!!!