Comments on: How to Do a Pull-Up (or 15) http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/ Jen Sinkler, Experience Life senior editor, compiles a hodgepodge of fitness information for sporty types. Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:26:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Jen Sinkler http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-135 Jen Sinkler Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:05:06 +0000 http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-135 Halvo, Since your comment, I have now been asked, "Who is this Halvo person who can do 37 pull-ups?!" So, to prove you exist and are capable of such a feat (I don't doubt it for a second, you freak, I've seen what you can do in yoga), can you please take a video of yourself doing 37 pull-ups? I will post it here. Thank you. Halvo,
Since your comment, I have now been asked, “Who is this Halvo person who can do 37 pull-ups?!”

So, to prove you exist and are capable of such a feat (I don’t doubt it for a second, you freak, I’ve seen what you can do in yoga), can you please take a video of yourself doing 37 pull-ups? I will post it here.

Thank you.

]]> By: Halvo http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-133 Halvo Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:25:51 +0000 http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-133 Been working on the one handers for awhile. I need to give the rope a try. I have just been doing them by gripping myworking arm with the arm that is not doing most of the work. I can do about 7 on my left side, with my right arm gripping my left wrist. I have done as many as 3 on the right side, with my left arm gripping just above my elbow. The higher up your hand is on your arm, the harder it is. I have been leaving hand print bruises on my right arm lately. Pullups are my thing. I have done as many as 37 in a row. I would have to say that the thing that really increased my abilitly to do ridiculous amounts of pullups would be doing pullups with added weights. I went from 15 in a row to 37 in a row in just under a year. Been working on the one handers for awhile. I need to give the rope a try. I have just been doing them by gripping myworking arm with the arm that is not doing most of the work. I can do about 7 on my left side, with my right arm gripping my left wrist. I have done as many as 3 on the right side, with my left arm gripping just above my elbow. The higher up your hand is on your arm, the harder it is. I have been leaving hand print bruises on my right arm lately. Pullups are my thing. I have done as many as 37 in a row. I would have to say that the thing that really increased my abilitly to do ridiculous amounts of pullups would be doing pullups with added weights. I went from 15 in a row to 37 in a row in just under a year.

]]> By: Jen Sinkler http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-131 Jen Sinkler Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:54:33 +0000 http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-131 MizFit, Love my home door gym -- 'specially since I've attached the giant, 4-foot-long resistance band for assisted pull-ups. I can so picture you doing the advanced maneuvers -- by contest time in August for sure! Julie, What your dad was doing = partner pull-ups. Dude knows his stuff! Rematch for the Thanksgiving pull-up contest! Kim, Did you hear about the new Indiana Jones movie? Surely he will have to pull himself from a ledge per usual, doing the one pull-up you rightly claim is necessary to survive. Kate, A pull-up is in your future, I know it. It almost is already! MizFit,
Love my home door gym — ’specially since I’ve attached the giant, 4-foot-long resistance band for assisted pull-ups. I can so picture you doing the advanced maneuvers — by contest time in August for sure!

Julie,
What your dad was doing = partner pull-ups. Dude knows his stuff! Rematch for the Thanksgiving pull-up contest!

Kim,
Did you hear about the new Indiana Jones movie? Surely he will have to pull himself from a ledge per usual, doing the one pull-up you rightly claim is necessary to survive.

Kate,
A pull-up is in your future, I know it. It almost is already!

]]> By: Kim http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-130 Kim Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:59:19 +0000 http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-130 My aunt fed me Lucky Charms for breakfast, lunch, and dinner when she would babysit me when I was a wee child. I don't regret a single thing I've eaten (or been made to eat) or that I can't do 15 pullups. hahaha. My aunt fed me Lucky Charms for breakfast, lunch, and dinner when she would babysit me when I was a wee child. I don’t regret a single thing I’ve eaten (or been made to eat) or that I can’t do 15 pullups. hahaha.

]]> By: MizFit http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-127 MizFit Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:29:52 +0000 http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-127 wow, Julie. Im starting to feel thankful that my Jewish intellectual father merely proffered books at every turn :) M. wow, Julie.

Im starting to feel thankful that my Jewish intellectual father merely proffered books at every turn :)

M.

]]> By: Julie http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-126 Julie Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:04:57 +0000 http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-126 Pullups remind me of my childhood, since we had a bar in almost every doorway in our house. As Kate may well remember, my father would sometimes make us do a pullup (or as close to one as a thirteen-year-old sports-averse girl could get) before entering the room. Sadly, I haven't attempted one in about a year. The most helpful thing my dad would do, though, was to grab our feet and sort of lift them up with us as we pulled. It was more a mental thing than actually reducing the weight, but it made it seem easier...wonder if that would work today? Pullups remind me of my childhood, since we had a bar in almost every doorway in our house. As Kate may well remember, my father would sometimes make us do a pullup (or as close to one as a thirteen-year-old sports-averse girl could get) before entering the room. Sadly, I haven’t attempted one in about a year.

The most helpful thing my dad would do, though, was to grab our feet and sort of lift them up with us as we pulled. It was more a mental thing than actually reducing the weight, but it made it seem easier…wonder if that would work today?

]]> By: Kate http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-125 Kate Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:30:37 +0000 http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-125 Personally, I'm a fan of the door gym and the band -- makes you feel challenged at the same time it convinces you that someday, you too, six foot tall woman whose upper body to lower body strength/weight ratio could be, well, better, may just make it to a pullup or three. Personally, I’m a fan of the door gym and the band — makes you feel challenged at the same time it convinces you that someday, you too, six foot tall woman whose upper body to lower body strength/weight ratio could be, well, better, may just make it to a pullup or three.

]]> By: MizFit http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-124 MizFit Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:56:50 +0000 http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-124 ooooh the coincidence that you write this today and my new pull up bar arrived yesterday in the mail (I figure I dont get to the gym as often as Id like since Im playing babymama---perhaps Ill actually motivate to use it). this weekends minigoal is simply installing. love Stumptuous.com may never make it to the advanced maneuvers. M. ooooh the coincidence that you write this today and my new pull up bar arrived yesterday in the mail (I figure I dont get to the gym as often as Id like since Im playing babymama—perhaps Ill actually motivate to use it).

this weekends minigoal is simply installing.

love Stumptuous.com

may never make it to the advanced maneuvers.

M.

]]> By: Kim http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-123 Kim Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:04:20 +0000 http://experiencelifemag.com/blogs/survival-of-the-fittest/2008/04/24/how-to-do-a-pull-up-or-15/#comment-123 Stubot...YOU CAN DO IT! But i'm going to stick with my conviction that you really only need to do 1 pullup... Stubot…YOU CAN DO IT!

But i’m going to stick with my conviction that you really only need to do 1 pullup…

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