Frustration - Can't do pull ups!!!!

snoopydawggy

Oryctolagus cuniculus

Karma: +0/-0
Offline

Offline

Posts: 1

Frustration - Can't do pull ups!!!!

« on: October 14, 2007, 04:40:53 PM »

For some reason, I can't seem to do any pull ups or chin ups and it is really frustrating. Does anyone know how to get better?


	Logged

Muse_of_Fire

Mandrill

Karma: +386/-28
Offline

Offline

Posts: 1627

Alissa J. Bratz is a new momma!

Re: Frustration - Can't do pull ups!!!!

« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2007, 04:43:14 PM »

Just keep trying. Try a grease-the-groove. Check out Steve Low's workout thread for details on how to do this. Basically you want to do as much of a pullup as you can do any time you pass under something "pullupable."

Also, negatives will really help.

There is no Pullup Fairy that will grant them to you. It really does take consistent, daily effort.


	Logged

She followed slowly, taking a long time,
as though there were some obstacle in the way;
and yet: as though, once it was overcome,
she would be beyond all walking, and would fly.
--excerpt from Going Blind, Rainer Maria Rilke

www.madparkour.com

Zuxzux

Mangabey

Karma: +12/-31
Offline

Offline

Posts: 254

Re: Frustration - Can't do pull ups!!!!

« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2007, 08:15:43 PM »

Keep workin at it! 6 months ago I couldnt do 10... now i can easily do 30 or more in sets of 10.

24 hour fitness has a machine that adds negative weight to foot pad things. It will help you do a pullup by reducing the weight you have to lift... that is if you have that at your disposal.


	Logged

Steve Low

Moderator
Mandrill

Karma: +191/-26
Offline

Offline

Posts: 1951

Re: Frustration - Can't do pull ups!!!!

« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2007, 08:29:36 PM »

See this thread:
http://www.americanparkour.com/smf/index.php?topic=4214.0


	Logged

Use the search function, please.

Any advice given is not to be taken as professional information either medical, training or nutritional.

Rookster

Oryctolagus cuniculus

Karma: +0/-0
Offline

Offline

Posts: 23

Re: Frustration - Can't do pull ups!!!!

« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2007, 03:04:27 PM »

Negatives - Static hangs -- these things are HUGE. When I started I could do none. My dad offered me 2000 dollars if I could break his highschool record by the time I was done with highschool (He did 32 Straight, no momentum, up and down) In 2 years I got up to 29. I never did break his record, because training so much for them I got bad tedonitis in my shoulders and decided I didn't care anymore, But I started with inability to even move and in a week I could do 5 straight just by jumping into negatives and trying to slowly lower myself. Static hangs at the bottom and top of the pullup will help greatly too, just make sure you are flexing your shoulder/armpit muscles so you aren't just letting gravity yank on your joints. You can do it though! Keep at it!


	Logged

Some people go out at night and take shots of alcohol. Me, I take shots of Flax Oil.

Pages: [1]

American Parkour > Fitness and Training > General Fitness (Moderators: Ken PKChiro, Steve Low, Chris Salvato) > Topic: Frustration - Can't do pull ups!!!!

« previous next »