How to Do Pullups (When You Can’t Yet Do Pullups)

I’m a big fan of pullups. Always have been, in fact — at least as far back as my interest in physical fitness went.

I remember one of my first goals after reading “The Art Of Expressing The Human Body” (about Bruce Lee’s training feats and regimen) was to do one-arm chin-ups. Obviously I had no idea how hard a goal that actually was, but a boy can dream, can’t he?

Pullups are, without a doubt, one of the few truly essential exercises.

Climbing, hanging, and generally pulling yourself upward is a skill that’s been passed down to us from our ancient forefathers til today.

While they needed it for different reasons (climbing to escape predators, climbing to find food, etc) for our purposes the benefits of overhead pulling are in strengthening the back, arms, grip, and abs (yes, even abs) — all of which will greatly increase your usable, real-world strength in leaps and bounds, make your shoulders resilient, and start helping you fight back against the ravages of PPP syndrome (piss-poor posture) caused by sitting all day and just generally not moving a lot.

But what if your problem is not that you don’t do pullups, but rather that you can’t do pullups?

Well, you’re in luck, because I have just the thing for you — a video of a move known as Jackknife Pullups, which can help you work on the groove of the move while you build up the requisite strength to knock out your first one.

Combine this move with progressions like dead hangs and flexed-arm hangs, bodyweight rows, face pulls, and other upper body pulling exercises and before you know it you’ll be the proud owner of your very first pullup!

On that note, if you like training that:

• Gives you more strength than it takes from you
• Improves your stamina and resilience simultaneously
• Powers-up every nook, cranny, crevice, and corner of your Soft Machine

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How?

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Even cooler:

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Have fun and happy training!

Aleks Salkin