Reply With QuoteIt sounds like you could benefit from using one of those nautilus machines that allow you to select a resistance level. The machine will help you by allowing you to lift a percentage of your bodyweight until you build those muscle groups up to the point where you can use 100% bodyweight. Since pull-ups are a bodyweight exercise used to build endurance rather than mass it is better to do 10 reps * 3 set @ 50% bodyweight than to struggle to do a few sets of 2 or 3 deadhangs. Hang in there you will eventually get strong enough to effectively train using pull ups.
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02-09-2005, 08:29 AM #1Registered User
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pull up help needed
Can anyone tell me how to do pull-ups.
Most articles say you have to start with a dead-hang and then pull yourself up.
OK but it is very difficult to pull yourself up with your arms (for me anyway) from a dead-hang (especially when the arms are about to come out of their sockets) so maybe I'll have to lift myself up using my back- how am going to that?
Help please Thanks.
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02-09-2005, 06:00 PM #3My Little Man
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At the bottom of the rep should you allow your shoulders and arms to relax though? That doesn't sound safe to me.
What this means is that when we drop a ball and it falls to the ground, it wasn't the ball that moved (down to the ground), but the ground that moved (up to the ball)
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Well you are not allowing them to actually relax. For one that does sound dangerous and for two you lose a lot of momentum that way. You should keep your shoulders and arms tense but make sure you lock out your elbows to get full ROM on the way back up. Its called a dead hang because you start off with your elbows locked out.
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