How to Make Pull-Ups Harder
This is for the beasts there. If you can already do 10 or 20 pull-ups, you may be getting a little bored with our pull-up challenge . Earlier we talked about how to make pull-ups easier , but now it’s time for the reverse side. Here are some of the more challenging tricks you can try as you master the basics.
- Weighted pull-ups . You may be able to gain weight before adding reps, so give it a try. Gyms often have a belt near the chin station with a chain attached. You can hang a dumbbell on the chain to train with each rep.
- One-arm chin-ups . To work in this direction, you will need to use your second hand to help, but as you get stronger, use it less and less. For example, pull your arms closer and closer together, and then grasp the other wrist with one hand . After that, move on to one of these one and a half variations .
- Suspenders on the bar or rings . This is a pull-up in which you just keep going up. As a result, you get straight arms, placing your hands on the bar, as if you were leaning on a tabletop. This hand position is different from the usual pull-up grip, so one way to start is to practice pull-ups in this “false grip” position .
- Typewriter pull-ups as youmove back and forth on the counter, as if you were a typewriter cart, or perhaps a cartoon squirrel eating corn on the cob.
- Finger pull-ups only . This is the same exercise, only withtwo or three fingers on the bar instead of all four.
- All the incredible things that climbers do . Climbing a lot is like doing pull-ups with your toes, so the next time you visit a climbing wall, check out the training equipment it has, such as bars, which give you different ways to practice pull-ups or hangs just on your feet. fingers.
None of these pull-ups are easy; For example, you could work on a one-arm chin for years. At least now you will never be bored on the crossbar.