maybe try some assisted pullups to get more reps.
A way to do assisted pullups is to get some stretch bands and tie each end to the bar. Pull yourself up and put your knees inside the stretch bands. Lower yourself down as the bands stretch and pull yourself up as the band assists. You can make the band shorter or longer for different amounts of assistance. You may also be able to use bicycle inner tubes.
Just a thought to get more reps in. The theory is if you can get more reps, your muscles will remember the motion and you'll be able to do more un-assisted.
Nice handy work by the way. I've got an interesting pullup bar that I made in my garage. I'll take a pic and post.
Re: maybe try some assisted pullups to get more reps.
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Originally posted by Chief Fox
A way to do assisted pullups is to get some stretch bands and tie each end to the bar. Pull yourself up and put your knees inside the stretch bands. Lower yourself down as the bands stretch and pull yourself up as the band assists. You can make the band shorter or longer for different amounts of assistance. You may also be able to use bicycle inner tubes.
And if you lose your grip, you'll have a nice face imprint in the wall! ;)
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Just a thought to get more reps in. The theory is if you can get more reps, your muscles will remember the motion and you'll be able to do more un-assisted.
Not exactly sure what you mean here, but if I'm reading it right, then it's very wrong. You need more strength to do one first - that means negatives, even weighted negatives. When you can do one, do that one then more negatives and keep going until you can do several full ROM reps. Your muscles don't have a memory and NMF (nuero muscular facilitation - you guys have another term for it.... I can't remember it. GTO or something) anyway, that won't help you do more necessarily unless the strength is there. If you do assisted ones and get more reps in, it will help build strength up to a point, but it's nothing to do with memory.
Just keep plugging away, big bear - you'll get there. And I want to see the first nekkid pullup come from you man. Actually, Ming Yue is at your school, huh? Ask her if she'll post a nekkid pull up pic. I'd ask her myself, but I'm not that crass.
Re: Re: maybe try some assisted pullups to get more reps.
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Originally posted by Serpent
And if you lose your grip, you'll have a nice face imprint in the wall! ;)
Not exactly sure what you mean here, but if I'm reading it right, then it's very wrong. You need more strength to do one first - that means negatives, even weighted negatives. When you can do one, do that one then more negatives and keep going until you can do several full ROM reps. Your muscles don't have a memory and NMF (nuero muscular facilitation - you guys have another term for it.... I can't remember it. GTO or something) anyway, that won't help you do more necessarily unless the strength is there. If you do assisted ones and get more reps in, it will help build strength up to a point, but it's nothing to do with memory.
Just keep plugging away, big bear - you'll get there. And I want to see the first nekkid pullup come from you man. Actually, Ming Yue is at your school, huh? Ask her if she'll post a nekkid pull up pic. I'd ask her myself, but I'm not that crass.
Don't want to hijack OSO's thread but now I'm gonna have to go do research to back up what I said. I was just trying to suggest another way to do a pullup workout. I agree that negatives are best but what is wrong with doing un assisted pullups, then moving to negatives and then doing some assisted pullups? I'll start a new thread.
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Originally posted by Chief Fox
Don't want to hijack OSO's thread but now I'm gonna have to go do research to back up what I said. I was just trying to suggest another way to do a pullup workout. I agree that negatives are best but what is wrong with doing un assisted pullups, then moving to negatives and then doing some assisted pullups? I'll start a new thread.
Sorry, didn't mean to suggested that assisted pullups were necessarily a bad thing. I was more addressing the memory thing.