In defense of the vertical band assisted pull ups, if the bands ever snap up like that, you might end up doing your first pull up in surprise earlier than you ever expected!
yeah all the tips she has a great. That's what I've been doing, without watching a video on it. They've helped a lot. Especially holding at the top. THat's one of my weak spots.
Active deadhangs were great for me aswell as negatives. After youre done with your pullups. Just reset, let your hands rest, catch your breath. And do an active dead hang for as long as your hands allow you to. Or 30 sec to a minute. Do that a couple times as well. I just suck with my dietary needs .. so im not seeing much gains and im hitting a plateau. Might need weights but not willing to go that far yet
@@anonanon7553not gonna lie, my endurance is ass. I get to a certain point and all of a sudden its like what the hell. Anyway, i do not know if this is beneficiary or the opposite. After a while hanging at the top gets a bit boring for me. So i just do a slow pull up, going up as slow as i can, and going down as slow as i can . Again my endurance sucks so my thought was to make it as intensive for a longer period of time. My muscles shouldnt have too much trouble doing the normal ones. But im stuck at a certain point so this might achieve the opposite
Building foundational pull strength is so essential. I did most of the other things mentioned in this video, but could never get past 5 pullups, let alone do multiple sets of them. My old trainer told me to just hang from the bar for as long as possible and work myself to holding on for a minute, and then, once I felt confident to just start pulling up. After a couple of months, it worked like magic. Now I can do 10-12 reps in 4 sets (so 40-46 total pullups) warming up even on bad days. This has been one of my top achievements at the gym and I am so happy about it 😁
I appreciate this! Been able to do pull-ups for quite awhile, but I max out at about 2-3 and haven’t progressed much in a long time. I only really do home workouts, and I think it’s hard to find alternatives to the equipment in this video to use at home. I just have a door pull up bar
There are so many places for imbalances, so you have to slowly work on the whole chain or you’ll get stuck or injured. I’m now restarting the whole process after some years off doing legit pull ups.
Agreed, may sound weird but I hated my figure which is an hourglass because my hips were so wide and my shoulders are broad (I’m tall) I felt huge and wide in middle school/highschool but I’ve come to appreciate being able to fit into most retail clothing. Jeans are a struggle though but with my continued muscle growth they’re fitting better
best vid explaining how to get the pull up. i have never seen all of these tips compiled in one video with such good visual demonstrations. thank you!! hoping to get my pullup by the end of the summer, maybe sooner if im consistent with it :)
But lat machine doesn't prepare your core for the balance needed for pullups. For most people, after their first pull up, they start swinging like a pendulum and waste energy because they got no core control.
I remember my first pullup (as a woman). I got one of those bars that hang on to your door and it came with instructions about form. I had been doing a fair amount of pushups every day, maybe 100, but trying pull-ups before reading the instructions I could do nothing. After, I could do 7. I forget the instructions, it's been a while since I've paid any attention to fitness but I learned just how important form could be in the successful conpletion of a muscular task.
@@Icystedwell It is relevant. When I was 16 I was able to do a couple of pull ups without having really needing to exercise at all. I’m a guy and I also seen the girls my age struggle to do them too.
I got my first pull-up yesterday. It has taken me 3 months of strength training to go from 50kg on the lateral pull-down machine to being able to easily rep about 70-80kg with assisted chin ups and dips, and finally I attempted a chin up yesterday on a random bar unaided. Didn't expect to get it, but apparently, I'd sailed past my goal because it came with ease! For reference, I weigh in at around 103 kg or around 225 lb.
It’s been a slow grind for me, but after a few months of assisted pull-ups I can now do a solid 5 unassisted in a row🫡 Keep grinding y’all. We got this🤝🏽
Try switching your grips? I used to struggle with my pull-ups, and then some friends told me to do underhand grip. Did that with some negatives and band help then managed to finally do one after so many attempts. Then eventually when I got 3 I switched grips again to over hand and did more. Now anytime I go to the gym I always do pull ups cause I dont wanna eventually go back to 0.
Generally the best way to get better at pull ups is to practice pull up variations i.e. bands and negatives. If you’ve been trying that and not seeing any progress then chin ups (underhand grip) can definitely help or at least be a different way to train to add some variety
They are hard. I’m just now beginning my health journey and I’m struggling. However, one day I’ll get to the point where I can do pull-ups. It’s not easy for those of us that haven’t trained much. You’ll get past it if you just continue on. And do not listen to the haters. They know nothing.
Active hangs are super important imo. Maybe even the most important thing. I notice so many people do pull-ups with shrugged shoulders and only use their biceps
Currently my best is 7 pull-ups. Goal is 10. Guess that's why I'm here. I upload my results every so often. It's been a bit since I went to Disney but I definitely need to get back into it.
Just make a friend that has a gym membership and ask to bum off him most memberships give you a plus1 and create a routine and go workout with him whenever he shows up
No need for any equipment besides a bar. Use a stool to start a the top of the bar, and lower yourself down as slow as you are able. This is how I started off with pull ups, and it took me about a week and a half of doing that every other day before I was able to do a pull up. Only took a few months before I could do ten reps at a time.
1 year ago my dream was to preform a pullup. Was so damn jelouse of my friends who could. So I trained and can now do 8. Lost about 80 pounds too. I do pullups everyday now just because I can. I love it. Huge feeling of freedom.
@@Lijslocombe. how so? I never did pull ups always did lat pull downs when I started the gym now I can do 10+ pull ups without training them directly and that's due to having a strong back which lat pulldown can help you build
@@Scycho assisted pull ups will get you there a lot faster the hardest thing about pull ups initially is the movement, you can have the strength and not how to use it
Love this. So motivating, I used to be able to do 10 pullups with ease... but that was a long time ago. I'm on a new fitness journey and my goal is to be able to do 1 clean pull up. ❤
Do you know if a doorway pull up bar will hold between 2 walls instead of a doorway? Worried it will slip between walls cause my doorway not sure is strong enough.
@@selohcin Yeah but I mean if you can use the simple straight bars between walls instead of on the sides of the doorway. They seem to be attached with like small suction pads and pressure which holds better on smooth surfaces like a door frame but walls have paint so not sure if it will hold on a wall.
Good advice except the resistance band part. Assisted machines are better. Bands decrease the load at the bottom of the movement and offer little help in the top range of motion (where it is more difficult). Assisted machines offer a constant decrease in load that’s much easier to track (i.e. your band placement has to be consistent for the same amount of assistance every time).
@@malindarayallen You're not reading the title. You're reading the first thing it says in the video. It has the channel name at the bottom left and a little subscribe button then under that it has the title of the video, see the difference?
So cool 🫶 you’re doing such a good job 🍀 keep it up and thank you for sharing your progress with everyone it’s really inspiring to see how you progress ♾️
It's also important to mention that you work different muscle groups based on how far apart your hands are on the bar and if your fingers are facing you or facing away from you. What worked best for me ended up being a set of 8 and a 15 minute walk and another set of 8 and walk. For months I was doing 48 pull ups every other day walking between sets. Put me in the best shape of my life.
Personally, as a former Muay Thai fighter (I'm Thai). We always do the hold pullups for starting 15 seconds per set. You need to jump to the bar and hold it where the chin is above the bar. We'll do it 5 or 6 sets with 35 seconds rest per set. After you feel a bit stronger, probably 1.5 or 2 weeks after you start doing it. You can increase the holding time to 20 seconds, 25 seconds, and so on. When you can you it quite comfortably, now you can start implementing the strength that you've gained all this time to a proper pull-up.
