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Mar 22 2009

BodyRock Bootcamp Workout 3: Rope pull ups

If you don’t have a pull up bar at home you can always improvise. I made use of the stairs in my living room  and a skipping rope. This exercise basically works your upper body, especially your biceps, lats, posterior deltoid and trapezius. It was pretty hard to pull myself up this many times so I started to cheat and use my legs to bounce off of the stairs.  Although this exercise is really challenging, I love it and I am going to practice more, because I would like to be strong enough to be able to pull up my own bodyweight 20 times without cheating. I know that most of you are interested more in loosing body fat especially if you have just started to workout. I can understand that, but concentrating only on that aspect will not make your training more enjoyable. Always ask yourself  ”what can I do to actually enjoy my training.”  If you start to challenge yourself differently, for example you will set up a goal to beat me in pull ups or do the front split that I am not able to do yet, then  your workouts might get more interesting. Reaching these short term goals can help sustain you through to your longer term fat loss goals. 

Best,

Zuzana.

  • http://pnwfitness.info/ pnw fitness

    Good video. You could also put some towels through the rope to further increase your grip strength.

  • smarty

    great video!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=578501910 Chenard Cherilus

    I like this workout. You can also use the rope to do suspended abdominal crunches

  • jessie

    Hy Zuzana,
    I’ve told all my friends about your boot camp videos and they all think they are the best that we have ever seen!!!Great work!
    I have a question; does body have more benefits(like losing fat and getting stronger) by doing exercises like this;weight training first and then 20 min of cardio tof example Tabata style,or like this; splitting 40 min of high intensity interval training Tabata style in 10 times like you explained in example 2 of “Muffin top” article? Some people told me that that’s the same but I think you are more qualified to answer that question.
    Best,
    Jessie

  • Elena

    It might be easier if you bend your knees and do not touch the floor between reps? Also you can get the pull up bar for between the doorway for about $20, I think it is call iron gym or something similar

  • Zuzana – BodyRock.Tv

    Keeping the legs off of the floor at all times is more difficult. I would like to be able to do that tho. I am working on it.

  • Zuzana – BodyRock.Tv

    Hi Jessie,

    I am appreciate that you have spread the word about our site, In regard to your question, the 2 workout systems you have mentioned are completely different. In that article about Love Handles and Muffin top I was talking more about high intensity interval cardio than the Tabata style. The high intensity would be for example cycling for 1 minute with high intensity ( it should be hard but not all out effort) than 2 minutes of moderate intensity and so on. Tabata style is all out effort for 20 seconds and than 10 seconds rest, for 4 minutes. I tried the Tabata style on a bike and couldn’t make through 4 minutes. When I do Tabata style cardio with body weight exercises I am working really hard for each 20 seconds of work but not for all out effort and that’s why I do more rounds (4x5minutes) but each time to exhaustion. You can also do cardio at a steady pace, but interval training has been proven to be the best cardio method for fat loss. So this is cardio. Cardiovascular workouts need to be part of your training program. You can’t rely only on cardio tho. You need weight training as well to build lean muscle tissue. That is something that cardio can’t do. You can read more about the importance for weigh training in this article cardio versus weight training. Doing 20 minutes of cardio after weight training is recommended for weight loss, but you should do also some cardio on your days off, because for high intensity interval cardio you need more strength which you don’t have after weight training session.
    Best,
    Zuzana.

  • Natram

    wow, that was cute when u started cheating it’s something i would have done too. lol

  • dave

    Get a piece of 3/4 inch steel pipe about 6 inches wider than the stairs and two lengths of chain with snap links about 2ft long. Loop a piece of chain over each end of a stair tread and then loop it around each end of the pipe, hanging the pipe under what ever tread is a convenient height. Use some tape on the chain to be sure the pipe can’t slide out of the chain either way (or get the pipe threaded on each end and screw caps on it.
    Your arms are gorgeous by the way! Sleek, shapely, powerful and sexy!

  • http://THANKUSOMUCH! NOREEN

    Dear Zuzana,
    Thank you very much for this website. You are very effective as a teacher. My boyfriend and I are trying to work out together and your website makes it alot less painful on our wallets. :-)

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  • Stania

    Hi I like to ask if you can give me sam tip for workout in the area wher is very hard to loseway it is wais after two kinds and quit smoking I have start TaeBo it is good but is for complite body workuot.(ja mam problem s tou casti myslim ze se tomu rika u nas pneomatika)I can lose way in this area please give me sam tips.
    Regards Stana

  • W

    Zuzana, thanks for providing us with these vids! u are very beautiful and u have a great body. I’ll try out your workouts and i hope i can get a better shape and tone up a bit.

    I’ll watch your other vids too, thanks!

    Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas!

  • JouliaGoulia

    Great workout! thanks

  • BMK

    Zuzana,
    Could you please show us/share with us how you made this rope pull up? Im really interested in it but Im not sure how to go about it/ how its mounted/ rope length, knots etc. Any help would be appreciated :)

    Thanks!

  • Frederick

    Hi BMK – we just used a skipping rope and made a loop out of it – thats it!

  • BMK

    That is wonderfully simple :D
    Thanks!!

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