Pull ups again

Where ever I go I find people abandoned by the fitness industry!

My evidence for this  is the failure of so many people to be able to do a pull up.

I’ve written about this phenomenon in the past. Often in slightly rude, slightly risque, terms.

But let me, again, emphasise how to get your first pull up.

Obviously, any arm strength helps. If you’ve been bicep curling, doing push-ups, tricep extensions, some other weird bodybuilding isolation exercise you got off the internet, you must be better of than someone who hasn’t used their arms since birth, but as my article  “Pull ups and girls” proved, generic exercises do not give you pull-ups.

It’s better to learn how to do a “negative”

you have to think a lot about how to get  up to the  bar to  be able to lower down from it. I cover this crucial issue in patronising detail in my article “If you do not have any pull ups, no one will want to marry you”.  Read it carefully

But here are some extra ideas for you to build in:

To help structure your training, here is an interesting regime that builds your pull ups from a single negative to 20

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As always, if you want to book a Pt with me in Bethnal Green  or Blackfriars, do drop me an email Andrew@andrewstemler.com

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