do 10 pull ups

When I do pull-ups some days I can do 4 and some days 5, but they don’t seem to be getting any easier. I do 4 sets of either 4 or 5 (whichever I can do that day) and hopefully they’ll start getting easier :) Good luck everyone!!

In a very little voice… I’m not sure what happened, but after a week giving chin ups a try, my maximum number of pull ups went down. What the?

The only thing that I can think of is that I’ve been doing a lot of running recently… but I can’t see the link.

And, er, that’s three pull ups with good form, plus one wreck.

So far I can’t even lift myself up to the bar, much less past it. My goal is to get to where I can do 10 pull ups without breaking my arms or neck.

10 pull ups

I switched to chin-ups (which are slightly easier) for a bit of variety. I do three sets to exhaustion…

I improved two pull-ups this week! :) It will happen.

I’m kind of embarrassed to post, given that I can do at most 4 (FOUR!) unassisted pull-ups. And only the first three have any decent form. I started off with (ahem) 2, and after a few weeks of effort, well, here I am.

Just wanted to share. I’m not out of shape by any means, just not particularly strong. I thought that my starting point might be encouraging to someone else stuck in the low, low, low single digits :)

i did 10 assisted pull ups today. basically i put a low stool under my feet. i’m going to try this every morning for a week and see if my 1 (unassisted) pull up feels any easier.

i also did 10 push ups (knees down) a 3 sets of squats.

i can do one full pull up and about three half pull ups…

ok so the hubby installed a pull up bar over the doorway between the living room and the kitchen. i’m thinking that if i do whatever fraction of a pull up i can manage every time (or nearly every time) i walk thru the door…

I succeeded after I was doing 4 sets of 6 three times a week without trouble. I just decided to go for 10 pulls on a day I was sick and didn’t feel like doing many sets. I was even about 10 pounds heavier than what I assumed I’d have to weigh to make it.