the pullup peeps thread!

DawnEmbers

I can imagine. I had to clean the door to our cooler once cause molding and the very top was the worst, plus all kinds of fun using the smallest ladder since it's hard to get to the top.

I'm trying to decide if I'll keep trying on the assisted chin-up machine. I'm a little too short but it still requires work for me to pull up to where the weights stop moving. hmmm

krokador

canadianlbs wrote: »

krokador wrote: »

I also like to hang from the door frame at work while heating up my lunch.

i use that time to take a grip on the edges of the double sinks and stretch out my upper back ;-)

i'll just mention, someone i worked with last year told me in university he and a friend did a study of 'organisms' found in random swabs taken from idk, regular life. according to him, the most lethal area in the whole survey was the tops of doors. in his words: 'we found stuff up there that the w.h.o. would get the horrors about.'

Um, I'll keep that in mind and maybe wash my hands only after I've gripped the thing. Or I'll just disregard and excuse it as a "I'm trying to build up my immune system" type of excuse lol. Not really grossed out by germs. What I can't see can't hurt me (or so I,d like to believe).

Sumiblue

Not sure if I'm doing chin ups or pull ups. I use a power cage and if I clear the bar I bump my head on the ceiling, lol. I have done 3 lifts unassisted using a grip where my hands are perpendicular to my body. Today I did 2 with palms facing me. I think that is a chin up. Last one was ugly-maybe I really only did 1 1/2.

Vailara

Just found this thread! Yes @Sumiblue chinups are with palms facing. Well done on your progress - you have my admiration!

I've been trying to do a chin-up (I think a pull-up may be beyond me) for a long, long time (about 2 1/2 years, maybe more). I started off severely obese and actually broke the pullup bar (one of those contraptions that you put in the doorframe). I bought a screw-in on and have kept going. I'm still nowhere near doing a chin-up, but not ready to give up yet!

I HAVE made progress though. At the start, I used to stand on a chair to reach the bar, hol on to it, and try to fall as slowly as possible. At the beginning I dropped like a stone. Now I can jump up to the bar and do hangs and negatives.

I think some things are against me - I'm in my 50s, I am pear/hourglass shaped without much upper body strength, and I've been happily maintaining at an overweight BMI. I'm trying to lose a bit more weight at the moment, and it will be interesting to see if that helps.

Sumiblue

^^^great progress! Hangs & negatives are hard. I'm using those now to build strength, too. I'm 46 & am fighting against aging, muscle loss with all I've got!

canadianlbs

oh. just to bump this thread, among other things . . . i was doing warmup today and using the pulldown bar to stretch out my shoulders - ended up able to pull 2x10@70 pounds, which is a lot more than i expected to be able to do atm.