Demosthenes
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Any suggestions?? I'm near a thick bared playground swing I could use. Thanks
It may be a mental thing, but I've done a lot of what you recommend Steve, yet still can not achieve a good pull up. The main things I do are slow, good form, negatives and scapular pulls into hollow body dead hangs. I've also done a lot of KB rows, inverted pull ups and the like.
Last week I finally gave in and ordered resistance bands from Rogue Fitness (I just like the brand), and am GTG with the 65# band. I really like being able to do the entire movement, and have made a ton of progress in this first week. I'll move down to the 50# band tomorrow.
I'm still doing the negatives and hollow body dead hangs once every two to three days.
One of my biggest goals for this year is to do a pull up all the way to my transplant scar, the bands are kind of a last ditch effort to jump start progress towards that goal.
Thanks Steve; I tried the prop assisted with a step stool, but it really didn't feel right. The image below and the site it came from is what I used as a guide. I'll give it a shot again and see what happens.
I was able to drop a band size today and plan on making this a fairly short lived N-1 experiment.