Pull-Ups

[Lannette]

Adrien, LOL at your “hanging on for dear life” comment! I just remembered that we have a full pull-up tower in the basement near our 4 station gym. It’s DH’s playground but he may have to share with me in the near future.

Hattie (Bea), you give me hope! Thanks for sharing your success. I’m currently using Cathe Boxing drills (ICE Rock’m Sock’m TS #6), 5 Minutes Of heavy bag and my Chest Giant Sets for warm up. I cool down with three 30 second hangs followed by shoulder articulation movements. (Got this from a vegan Bodybuilding site.) Then I try to do KY for decreasing inflammation. It’s working well but I’m going to check out the dvd you mentioned.

FirmDancer (Anita), It’s so good to know that I’m not alone! I started hanging before I started with assisted pull-ups and it’s fantastic. It decompresses my shoulders, elbows, wrists and ribs and even releases Fascial adhesions in my shoulders and back. I like to alternately pull my shoulders back and down and then just hang. It creates a massage-like motion.

Demeris, Interesting story! 50 Pull-ups!! When I first read what you wrote I thought you said that HE was 70!

Sarah, I agree. I’m just trying to work my way up to Callanetics hanging Open/closes so I sub my modifications for crunches.

So today I was able to do 7 assisted pull-ups, then had to hang for a couple seconds and did 1 more. Finished the rest of my back Giant Set, Quick stretch and did 3 more assisted pull-ups followed by the rest of the second Giant set. That’s 13 Total compared to 9 during the same WO last Saturday, so I’m improving.

Did you all see the thread where Bubbles mentioned that she was able to do a pull-up after doing a Margaret Richard Rotation? I’m committed to my Giant Sets for now but I was thinking that they’re actually high rep/fairly low weight like MR.

I do 4-5 exercises back to back for each UB body area, 10 reps for each exercise, 2 Sets for each Body area. That ends up being 80-100 reps for each body area. In all the years I’ve favored Giant Sets I’ve never totaled the reps until today. I might try to play MR into my rotation at some point.