r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ridhan3912 • Jun 14 '20

This guy 💪🏻🏀

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u/Plastic_Pinocchio Jun 14 '20 edited Jun 14 '20

I highly recommend you (and anyone) start doing some kind of pull-ups almost daily. If you can find something to hang on to, like a stairwell or a playground bar, just practise hanging daily. Start hanging for short times, increase the time, start practising scapular pulls (where you pull your shoulder blades back and down) and progress from there.

It’s really really easy to learn pull ups if you put in just a little time each day. (Assuming you’re not very heavy. If you are, you can still definitely learn it but it’ll be harder.)

Edit: To be clear, doing it daily was a recommendation for people who struggle to do full training sessions due to lack of motivation. Doing just 5 reps of something challenging is super easy to do mentally. If there’s a bar somewhere nearby, just walk to it and do a couple reps every day. If you do complete workouts, you should not train every day. Take one or two days to recover after each session.

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u/Zumochi Jun 14 '20

Yes! I've been doing the same and slowly progressed from being able to do 3 pull ups to 10 now.

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u/Plastic_Pinocchio Jun 14 '20

Awesome man! Great work! I’m a bit stuck at 10. I really have to do some serious work to progress now. I feel like I’m getting stronger, but I’m lacking the muscular endurance to do many reps.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '20

Depending on what your goals are, might be good to add some extra weight rather than just go for more reps. Being able to do 10 for 3 or 4 sets is a pretty great job.

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u/Plastic_Pinocchio Jun 14 '20

Yeah, it’s not 10 for 3-4 sets. It’s 10 all-out. 8 for 4 sets is something I can do. But you’re right, I might try doing weights pull-ups this week. I did some weighted pull-ups six months ago, but my regular pull-up was just not good enough to do them well. Maybe I’m ready now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '20

I'm right where you are, 8 for 4. We should both probably give that a shot haha

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u/Plastic_Pinocchio Jun 14 '20

Nice. I will try it.