Your First Pull Up...
A Fitness Milestone

The pull up is one of the most functional exercises in existence... simulating climbing, one of the most basic of human functions.

Unfortunately, most people are incapable of performing even one pull up... what's worse, very few people are even working toward their first pull up.

Lat pull downs and other exercises are not acceptable substitutes for the pull up... and will not help you achieve your first pull up.

How To Get Your First Pull Up

If you are incapable of performing your first pull up in good form, there are three things you need to consider...

Participate in a physical training program to improve over-all strength... providing you with the strength needed to lift your own bodyweight. Consider Workout Without Weights to systematically improve fitness, health and physique with bodyweight only exercises.

Participate in a physical training program to burn fat and modify your diet for fat loss... reducing the amount of weight your have to lift. Consider Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle to drop those extra pounds while keeping your hard earned muscle.

Practice the pull up frequently... your body will adapt to do a specific movement better when it is placed under the demand on a consistent basis. Consider The Naked Warrior to learn how to "Grease The Groove" for exercises such as pull ups. 

Use Assist Methods In Your
Quest For Your First Pull Up

In the beginning it may feel impossible that you will ever achieve your first pull up!

Build up to your first pull up by using assistance methods!

Use an assisted pull up variety by having a training partner help you with the positive movement and then doing the negative portion slow and controlled.

Do floor or chair assisted pull ups by using your legs to help you perform the positive portion of the pull up.

You can also use stretch bands to reduce the amount of weight you have to lift.

Reduce the amount of assistance you need until you perform your first pull up with good form under your own power.

If you become stronger, reduce the amount of weight you have to lift and practice the movement often... you will soon accomplish your first pull up.

And once you have done one... the sky is the limit.

Performing pull ups regularly is not just an incredibly effective upper body exercise... but performing pull ups well is a point of pride and accomplishment, setting you apart from the rest.

Adding pull ups to your fitness training program will soon develop an upper body powerhouse. When designing your workout programs in Workout Without Weights, be sure to include pull ups and all the variations taught... there is not greater feeling than to be able to pull your own weight with ease! Try it today... Risk Free!

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Coach Eddie Lomax is the founder and president of the Optimum Fitness Network, and author of the best-selling ebook Workout Without Weights: Bodyweight Calisthenics Workout Progression System.

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