how many of you girls know how to do a set of pull-ups??

[nadiamab]

well i cant , i cat even do one.
its kind of sad because i have always considered myself to be pretty strong. especially my upper body.i impress lots of guys with how heavy i can lift but im unable to do one .i cant even do a full push-up.

i work my lats and back pretty well. my plan was to try to slowly increase my lat pull down to 140lbs so it will be as much as i weight
and then i should be able to do it.
i currently at 115lbs and i do 4 sets x 6.

i dont know if thats the best way of doing it but any advice o how to be ble to do it. i know it takes extreme strength but its always been my secret mini goal and am really trying to achieve it.



thanks in advance

[LoveCode3]

It sounds like you are off to a good start with what you are doing. I ended up buying a cheap, home pull-up bar and I do them every day. I've had it about a month and have worked my way up to 4 in a row.

I got mine at Target for $15.00 and I've seen them at Wal-mart in the exercise section for even less.

[Mindi912]

Push up's or pull up's?

[nadiamab]

Push up's or pull up's?

im talking about pull ups....i only mentioned push ups because it usually easier than pull ups and also take upperbody strenght

[Finner]

I'm not even that strong, but I can do pull ups o' plenty.

I originally started way back in the day w/ a counter-balance machine. However, because it let me "cheat", I never seemed to progress as I wished.

Last year, there weren't many exercises I could do (long story), but I wanted to try pull ups again.

So, I went over to a cable machine/smith rack that had bars for pull ups over the top of it.

For the first three weeks, I would lower the bar of the Smith, put my feet on it, grab the pull up bars with a neutral grip, jump up, tuck my knees up so as not to swing, and would s-l-o-w-l-y lower myself down. Basically, I was doing "negatives" in order to build the strength up.

Once that started to be easy, I would do one negative, then attempt to pull myself up again before resting. I literally started with ONE rep. The following week, I moved up to two. I built up and was stuck at 5 for a while. What got me through that was doing the 5, then lowering myself only HALF way and pulling up from there. It was a cheat, but it really helped me progress.

Once I was able to do 20 with a neutral grip (palms facing each other), I changed the grip to underhand/palms facing me. I would warm up with my neutral grip and then start the entire process over with the next grip. . .starting from the negative position on.

When I could do 20 of those, I moved to a wider/overhand grip. THIS has been tough and miserable, but I'm up to 5.

I do not "count" the pull ups / push ups as my regular routine. I count them as a separate goal and those workouts are reserved for those activities alone. I have no idea why I do them or do it this way. . .other than, perhaps, my father told me that I'd never be able to. . .because I was a girl.

Showed him.

Muah ha ha ha ha! GOOD LUCK!

[MomOf4onaMission]

Jump up to it & do a negative (let yourself down slowly) I'm still working on them too

[Mindi912]

im talking about pull ups....i only mentioned push ups because it usually easier than pull ups and also take upperbody strenght

Well if you can't do a proper push up I would suggest you need to start strengthening your back.

I could do proper push ups way before I could a pull up, it's only recently that I have actually managed to a pull up with good form.

Everything comes in time if you keep working on it. Don't give up.

The way I achieved this is by doing assisted pull up's and gradually lowering the weight until I might as well just say I can do this and tried to do it myself one day and voila I did it.

My goal now is to add more the amount I can do in one go.

[demike]

U r 5 1 ^^^^

[98shadow]

I just recently went from doing 4 - week after week for about a year and was able to do 5. Now on a good day I can do 6 and then a couple sets of 2 or 3. Have also been
trying to increase my push-ups and have worked up to
5 sets of 20 with only about 30 seconds rest in between
sets.

Just keep at it. All above advise is good. Negatives especially

[Mindi912]

U r 5 1 ^^^^

What's that got to do with it?

[demike]

What's that got to do with it?

I am just messing with ya minders, did not mean to piss i your cheerios.

You are mindiesel, its cool.

[baileys423]

negatives worked for me, doing them after every back workout. Jump up to the bar and hang there and slowly come down " slowly" it hurts but I'm able to do pull ups now because of these. It took me about 3-4 weeks of this to finally be able to do a couple by myself

[dungeonmistress]

back before i got my implants i was able to do 4 sets of 6 wide grip pull-ups with an additional 40 lbs around my waist. yep i was strong! i could do dips with that amount of extra weight too, 4x6. somewhere on a japanese website there may be pix of me doing pull ups at the gym as there was a group of japanese tourists going thru (central Y, downtown san francisco) and they were gathered around taking pix of me doing pull ups - flag sweats, crop top. if you see her, it's me.

[GoutDeMiel]

U r 5 1 ^^^^

and you're 5'4. so what

[GoutDeMiel]

pullups have been my secret goal as well. something about having been told my whole life that girls aren't strong enough to them and are only able to do girl "pushups" too.

I've been hitting the lat pull down machine hard for the past month and a half and my lats look incredible. I guess I gotta start doing negatives too!

[soleuvanathlete]

Funny how so many of us have pull-up goals! Over the past month, I've really been focusing on pull-ups too. I still use the assisted pull-up apparatus, but I put the knee pad down (ergo, no assistance) and just use the steps to give me leverage to get myself up there. I started with 1 full ROM pull-up and then worked on my negatives. I would use the steps to get up and then SLOWLY lower myself. This morning, I did 4 full ROM pull-ups!! I'm going to do 10 by the 1st of the year! Love the powerful feeling and how my biceps/lats are responding - it's a beautiful thing!!

NEGATIVES are essential and tough, but they'll get you there, nadia!!

[nadiamab]

Funny how so many of us have pull-up goals! Over the past month, I've really been focusing on pull-ups too. I still use the assisted pull-up apparatus, but I put the knee pad down (ergo, no assistance) and just use the steps to give me leverage to get myself up there. I started with 1 full ROM pull-up and then worked on my negatives. I would use the steps to get up and then SLOWLY lower myself. This morning, I did 4 full ROM pull-ups!! I'm going to do 10 by the 1st of the year! Love the powerful feeling and how my biceps/lats are responding - it's a beautiful thing!!

NEGATIVES are essential and tough, but they'll get you there, nadia!!

thanks..im deff. going to try negatives.. i didnt even think of it.
i justget embarrassed sometimes when i attempt to do it and fail.
brings me down a notch,but who cares,i got to fall off a few times before getting it perfect

i have so many goal i want to attain ,i just want to sream sometimes...lool

thanks all

[MAKUA NUI]

I saw a female do a 3 sets of 4 pullups @ the gym yesterday! Very nice! Start off on the lat pull down machine and when you can pull your own bodyweight you should be able to do them. Good luck. I know this is a female thread but, it caught my eye after seein' it yesterday!

[kimm4]

My back has always been my strongest body part. My weight is 124 lbs and I'm now doing lat pulldowns of 170 for 6-7 reps. I also throw in rack chins and supine rows...this has really helped me increase my pullups. Nothing wrong with assisted pullups...have someone there to help.

[klyn29]

I started with assisted pull-ups as well. I did them once a week for several months before I even attempted my first real pull-up. I usually do 3 sets of 10 reps at 100lbs on lat pulldowns. I weigh 140 so I figured what the hell one day and attempted a set of pull-ups. I was only able to 1 at that time, but then I started trying to do them every week and I have worked up to 3 sets of 3 so far. I would love to be able to do 10 consecutive pull-ups.

[egoatdoor]

A lady at my gym, "L", who had never attempted pull ups until about two months ago, go up the courage to try when she saw another lady, who was smaller than she was, doing them for reps. "L" did 3 her first time and is now up to 3 sets of 5.

Two things really helped her get there. One, she had been doing assisted pull ups on a machine. She started decreasing the resistance each workout so she was using more of her own strength. Second, she started doing push ups while holding a dumbbell on the floor under each hand. This helped her leverage so she could do more push ups than doing them flat handed on the floor and I think this increased her pec, front delt and tricep strength during a few weeks time, which then helped her do the pull ups.