I started this blog to cover all things related to strength and gym confidence; well, pullup training certainly delivers both! It doesn’t matter if you can actually do pullups. What matters is that you’re working on lifting your body using your upper body pulling strength.
For these reasons, improving pullup strength is one of the most common goals people enquire about when they start training with me. Pullup training will help you improve your grip strength, pulling strength, core strength and more.
There’s just one problem. As pullup goals became more popular, every trainer (myself included) raced online to demonstrate our favourite pullup accessory exercises. This left the public with a library of exercises, but no guidance for putting them in a training programme.
It’s like having a pile of bricks but no blueprint for the house you want to build. Exercises on their own don’t get you results; a good training programme does! Today’s video covers the programming mistake that so many people make when trying to train for pullup strength.
How to Fix Your Pullup Training Programme
As with many strength training goals, the problem described in this video could be solved by taking a “less is more” approach. That’s the beauty of strength training; most of the time, you can improve by performing high-quality training. Your workouts don’t need to break you in order to be effective; quite the opposite, in fact. Of course, you can still train at really high intensities if you wish; just know that this is not necessarily a superior training method.
On the other hand, if your training intensity is too low, that can also cause problems. However, where pullups are concerned I see far more people training too hard than training too easy. Follow the tips in this video to strike the balance just right.
If you’d like to learn more about improving your pullups, you should read this blog too!
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