Assisted pullups at home

yogicarl

I am about 20lbs fat overweight, but am wanting to progress in pullups.

I know about negatives and will incorporate them into my program, but I am thinking of putting 11 litres of water into a plastic jerry can and slinging this over the pull-up bar on a haulage strap with a stirrup I can step into. In effect I would be doing pullups at my goal weight. As I lose fat weight I take out the equivalent amount of water and so on.

My concern is that doing negatives at 20lbs over could place too much strain on insertion points and trying to do positives at 20lbs overweight would mean I am not producing enough reps volume.

TheopolisAmbroiseIII

If you can do them unassisted, do them unassisted. If you can do 1, do 1. Then do another one. Then another one. You don't have to do them all at once.

Many people in the gym load themselves up with all kinds of belts and plates to do them, so if you're only 20lbs over your goal weight, I wouldn't worry about it.

G33K_G1RL

I started training pull ups at 40 lbs overweight. Started with inverted rows at different angles, then negatives, then normal full pull-up. Still working on volume, but negatives and elastic bands help.

You can also do pull ups with your legs resting on a bench. Don't use your legs to push, just use the bench/platform to hold the weight of your legs.

yogicarl

Thank you