Pull ups is a body weight exercise. The easiest way to increase them is to decrease your body weight. (BF% obviously)

Also, try negatives and the lat pulldown machine. A negative is, stand on something in front of the bar, get yourself to the top (cheating) and slowly lower yourself down.

Good luck!

Do lat pull downs and dumbell rows.

Practice on a chair. Use your legs to support your weight, but simulate the pull up with your arms. Gradually use your arms/back to carry more weight, use one leg, and then none.

That's how I was told to do it at home, with pull up bar.

HOWEVER, I still can't!!! :laugh:

And I do believe that is because I'm too heavy for my strength!! I can do proper push ups but the pull up still eludes me! :ohwell:

Good Luck tho hun :flowerforyou:

So, just curious. Why do you NEED to do ONE pull up in one month?

It's related to a job I'm trying to get. One of the physical requirements is to be able to get yourself out of a zipline with no outside assistance which is equivalent to one pull up.

I figured it was job related. Good luck. I'm sure, with determination, you'll have it done with time to spare.

I do not have a gym membership. I own my own free weights and my roommate has a pull up bar.

Also, Zach, yes the goal is to ultimately get my body weight down but I think it's easier to increase strength in 3 week than drop 20 pounds

lol, it really isn't but ok.

If you just want to get pull ups, just do negatives every other day

But no, it isn't easier to increase your strength with pull ups sorry, bodyweight trumps. But believe what you want.

But no, it isn't easier to increase your strength with pull ups sorry, bodyweight trumps. But believe what you want.

Alright, tell me how I can drop 20lbs in three weeks in a healthy way.

Well depending on your weight, you can drop 2-3 each week, which equates to 4-6, and that can make a world of difference with pull ups.

In reality you should have made more time to prepare for this, that would have been the better solution. However, make sure you are eating at a -500 deficit. (NO CHEATING) Also, again, negatives every other day. You should be able to crank out one.

Edit: FAIL: Thought you said 2, it is 3 weeks. Even better than 6-9 lbs drop.

But no, it isn't easier to increase your strength with pull ups sorry, bodyweight trumps. But believe what you want.

Alright, tell me how I can drop 20lbs in three weeks in a healthy way.

Well depending on your weight, you can drop 2-3 each week, which equates to 4-6, and that can make a world of difference with pull ups.

In reality you should have made more time to prepare for this, that would have been the better solution. However, make sure you are eating at a -500 deficit. (NO CHEATING) Also, again, negatives every other day. You should be able to crank out one.

You are assuming an awful lot here.

1) I am eating at a deficit and I am already losing 2-3lbs per week.
2) That's not 20lbs in three weeks. I have a time limit to complete this. Clearly developing strength and losing weight is not a mutually exclusive pair. What I need to focus on is developing the strength for a pull up in a time limit.
3) Exactly how should I have prepared more for this when I didn't find out UNTIL TODAY that it was a requirement?

*Edited cause I got a bit b*tchy

This arbitrary 20 lbs is irrelevant. The lighter you are the easier pull ups are. If you think I am lying I can get a vid of me doing weighted pull ups with a 25 lbs plate, then will you take my word for it?

To reiterate, just because you can't drop 20 lbs, DOESN'T mean you shouldn't drop the maximum amount of weight in order to prepare, which again is 6-9 lbs.

But no, it isn't easier to increase your strength with pull ups sorry, bodyweight trumps. But believe what you want.

Alright, tell me how I can drop 20lbs in three weeks in a healthy way.

Well depending on your weight, you can drop 2-3 each week, which equates to 4-6, and that can make a world of difference with pull ups.

In reality you should have made more time to prepare for this, that would have been the better solution. However, make sure you are eating at a -500 deficit. (NO CHEATING) Also, again, negatives every other day. You should be able to crank out one.

You are assuming an awful lot here.

1) I am eating at a deficit and I am already losing 2-3lbs per week.
2) That's not 20lbs in three weeks. I have a time limit to complete this. Clearly developing strength and losing weight is not a mutually exclusive pair. What I need to focus on is developing the strength for a pull up in a time limit.
3) Exactly how should I have prepared more for this when I didn't find out UNTIL TODAY that it was a requirement?

*Edited cause I got a bit b*tchy

This arbitrary 20 lbs is irrelevant. The lighter you are the easier pull ups are. If you think I am lying I can get a vid of me doing weighted pull ups with a 25 lbs plate, then will you take my word for it?

To reiterate, just because you can't drop 20 lbs, DOESN'T mean you shouldn't drop the maximum amount of weight in order to prepare, which again is 6-9 lbs.

Are you just... not paying attention?

Are you a retard?

What does the number 20 lbs have to do with anything. This is an arbitrary number YOU selected. The lighter YOU are the EASIER pull ups are.

Even IF you are 9 lbs lighter, then pull ups will be easier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO MAKE SURE YOUR DIET IS IN CHECK. (caps for mad status)

Stop being a butthurt crybaby when someone is trying to help YOU get YOUR job.

Listen, if you don't want help/advice don't ask for it.

Again the 20 lbs is irrelevant, because you are acting if you CANNOT lose 20 lbs, then your pull ups wont improve.

This is wrong for obvious reasons.

Let us be honest Kit, you have been a member of MFP since Mar 2010, you according to your ticker (Unless you lost weight without MFP, which is my case and I have ACTUAL before and after photos to back it up in my profile) have ONLY lost 6 lbs.

You HAVE NOT been eating correctly and losing 2-3 lbs a week. Sorry science says no.

The reason WHY i mentioned your diet is because again, being lighter will maximize your ability, so make sure the next 3 weeks that you stick with a correct diet if you are serious about it.

I am not trying to insult you, I am just saying to make sure your diet is in check. If you claim it is (which is what you claim) then so be it. However, stop with these arguments (like pulling random numbers out of the air aka 20 lbs) that are meaningless to the convo.

This is my last post in this particular thread because arguing on the internet is dumb. However this is EXACTLY why i HATE giving women advise, because they get SO OFFENDED when you try to help them.

Assisted pull ups. The best way to master an exercise is to practice that very same exercise. Use a chair and give yourself a bit of a jump each time. In a couple of weeks, you'll need to "jump up" less and less. You need to practice this each day, and you should see a bit of improvement each time, however slight.

Should be a piece of cake. ;-)

Good luck.

--P