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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting coincidence that you posted this. Three weeks ago, I got a pull up bar and could not do even a single one. I can now do one, but with a bit of a jump on it.
I was just hanging off of it for a while for days, and now I use a little bucket, you can use a stool, and do mock pull ups and working out all those muscles. Since I started that I was able to do that one pullup finally.[/quote]

You must be strong or really light. I’ve been working on them for a few years and still can’t do it. Haha [/quote]

I think there is a specific kind of coordination that helps some people get them faster. It took me a really long time to get my first proper pull up, and that was working with a personal trainer and being both really light and very fit at the time. Using the resistance band was ultimately what got me over the hump, plus really focusing with my trainer on learning to engage my "w muscles" which are the muscles in your upper back that need to contract and pull down in order to initiate the pull-up (google "scapular pulls" or "scapular pull-downs"). It was just a very foreign movement in my body, whereas I know people who instinctively understood how to do a pull up from adolescence without all that training.[/quote]

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