Comments on: Pull Ups Training – Functional Strength Challenge

By: Tanja Bournes

Tanja Bournes — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:18:58 +0000

Your blog is so informative… keep up the good work!

By: mulder

mulder — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:21:40 +0000

I think that negatives are overrated. I’ve found that for me at least, the first part of the motion from a dead hang with fully extended arms was the hardest to accomplish as a beginner.

So it was enough to jump up the bar and use a TINY bit of momentum from the jump to get up. That way you can train 90% of the exercise realistically! Likewise, if you can reach the bar with your feet on the ground, then you can also bypass the hardest part of the exercise.

Additionally, attempt the dead hang pull up a lot as well. At the point where you can’t get higher, hold yourself up for a while.

Train every day (but don’t overdo it – even just 1 or 2 minutes are enough because this is a really intense exercise) and don’t worry if it takes you weeks or months to get the first rep nailed down.

Be aware that every pound of weight in your body and clothes makes a difference. Yesterday’s workout may have seemed more successful than today’s because you are wearing a heavy jacket now.

By: Hasen

Hasen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:32:06 +0000

Hi, I thought this was a great video! Pull ups are the one exercise people try not to do at all! You can’t get away with no pull ups. It’s so hard for me to do pull ups since I am 295lbs! I can do about 4 or 5 in a row. Before I could even do any pull ups I practiced with my friends by having someone push me up by my legs or back. They have machines at gyms to negate some of your weight. I liked using this method more than doing negatives. I felt that I achieved faster results.

By: Aleksandar

Aleksandar — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:01:09 +0000

Zdravo Suzana,

Ja sam iz Srbije i mnogo mi se sviđa tvoj sajt.Interesuje me kako da postnem član(member)?

By: tk

tk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:51:11 +0000

Hi Zuzana, Fredrick.

Great video.

If ever you do an update of this video it would be great if we can see more of Zuzana’s upper back muscles, between the shoulder blades. I bet they really pop and twitch.

Thanks for informing us and keeping us inspired.