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im too heavy for pull-ups..
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You can climb onto the pull up bar and do controlled negatives.
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Join the club. As a woman, even with a good build it's always a hassle. Do assited pull ups if you have the right equipment in your gym. Or pulldowns. Pull ups are basically your upper body being strong enough to hold your own weight. If you are a heavier person than you can pull/hold you will find pullups a problem. I figure it's mostly a bicep/lat muscle issue.
Try machine pull-downs until you get strong enough or lose enough weight for pull-ups.
As you work your upper body this trouble will gradually evaporate. You just gotta love the pain while you get the gain mayn.
joey2005 said:
yes, pull-downs.
to the front:
http://exrx.net/WeightExercises/LatissimusDorsi/CBFrontPulldown.html
to the back:
http://exrx.net/WeightExercises/LatissimusDorsi/CBRearPulldown.html
(but do not pull past the middle of your head when pulling to the back, this guy is doing them wrong)
thanks a buch guys!!! welll i have a question now lol...im gonna post my pic when i get a chance but..im 6ft ..200lbs..have alot of muscle..even a 4 pack..just trying to lose waist fat..as much as I can . SHouldnt I be able to do pull-ups? is this a sign of weakness?
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Pull-ups suck. I have the same problem. When I started bulking about a few months back I went from being able to do about twenty pull-ups to... one! Gaining weight definitely makes pull-ups a pain in the ass. If you stick with it long enough you'll be able to do more, though. I think I can do about twelve now (which is still pathetic) and soon I hope to be able to do more.
I find that after I do bench presses I'm generally too wiped out to do many pull-ups since benches seem to use quite a lot of lat muscle power.
I find that after I do bench presses I'm generally too wiped out to do many pull-ups since benches seem to use quite a lot of lat muscle power.
Evil ANT said:
Blasphemy!
Stick with it. Do controlled negatives and pull downs.joey2005 said:
You should be able to do them, but for us bigger guys it is hard.
I superset them with bench.
I got really motivated when I asked to work in with these two guys on the pull up machine.
They said "sure". Then I overheard them saying "This won't take long, big guys can't do pull ups". Nothing gets you more motivated than that.
I started doing them every day. Now they have to wait for a while.
Evil ANT said:
ha i just started cutting and my pull-ups are going up
i'm assuming you have not go a pull-up assist then, because that would deffinatly help you! maybe get someone to spot you, even getting 1 or 2 out would be good, if that is not an option just lift heavy as possible on the lat pulldown and eventually you'll get the strength to do pull-ups
i couldn't do pull ups a couple of years back, worked up from lat pulldown to assited pullups and now i can get a good 7-8 out with full ROM
just stick at it n' it'll come
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yeah just stick with pullups, work on slow negatives and forced rep. make sure you use a full ROM (chin over bar, full extension at bottom of movement).
bodyweight is not an excuse. pullups is possibly one of the best upper body strength exercise. later on you can also work on "super-man" pullups (sternum touching bar).
bodyweight is not an excuse. pullups is possibly one of the best upper body strength exercise. later on you can also work on "super-man" pullups (sternum touching bar).
