Work Your Way to Pullups With These Intermediate Exercises
Doing the first pull – up is a great milestone. But how can you improve your exercise if you can’t do it at all?
Fortunately, anyone can learn to chin up over time by simply not starting the exercise right away. The women at Girls Gone Strong have compiled a list of the most effective exercises to get ready for your first. Here are a few, in ascending order of difficulty:
- The bent arm hanging is really what they look like: stand on the box so that you are about the same height as the crossbar, and just grab your hand and hang there for as long as you can.
- The pull-upnegatives are literally the downward part of the pull-up. Jump again and grab the bar so that you are in the same position as if you had just reached the top of the movement. Then begin to descend as slowly as possible. I usually find that if you can slow down the descent so that it takes about 45 seconds, you are ready to try the pull-up.
- Neutral grip pull-ups are a type in which the bars you are holding are parallel so that your palms are facing each other. This is generally easier than a regular pull-up because you can use more arms in the movement.
It will take a while, but if you stick to it, you should eventually be able to complete your very first pull-up.
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