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Pull ups / chin ups

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Assburgers · 02/07/2018 19:34

I can’t do one single one. I’ve never been able to. I installed one of those bars in a doorway in our bedroom a few months ago and can only dangle limply from it & then fall off. I really thought that if I tried every day then I’d make some kind of small improvements & eventually be able to do one, but no.

What am I doing wrong?! Has anyone got any tips?

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TheNoseyProject · 02/07/2018 19:41

If you go to the gym this sort of machine will help you build up to a pull up. You adjust the weight on it to compensate for less and less of your weight (aka on this machine the heavier the weight the easier the exercise):

www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/machine-assisted-pull-up

TheNoseyProject · 02/07/2018 19:38

So those are two different moves.

For a pull up you should be mainly using your back and shoulder muscles (not trying to do it all with your biceps). Start by dangling, then try to move your body so you’re dangling but without your shoulders bring up by your ears but rolled back into their normal position so your back is taking the weight.

A pull up is tough unless you’re fit all over. Can you do push-ups? If not you’re going to struggle to do a pull up. If you go to the gym do lots of back, chest, shoulder, bicep and tricep exercises with weights.

You’ll get there!

NT53NJT · 02/07/2018 19:38

You need to strengthen your forearms, biceps, back and shoulders.

Do compound excercises on these muscles and you will do one.

The dangling for X amount of time is great for building your forearms

Redrunbluerun · 02/07/2018 19:36

How long are you dangling for?! Build that up First... try and dangle for a minute... have a little break and do it again. Also concentrate on exercises that use your own body weight. Do press ups, tricep dips, planks and stuff like that.
Once you can handle your own body weight you can do chin ups. They are bloody hard though, I got up to 10 before I had my son- I dread to think what I could do now!

vanillasky1001 · 02/07/2018 19:35

If it makes you feel better, I do 50 press ups a day (25 in a row x 2) and I can’t do pull ups Confused

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