how I got from 0 to 1 to 3 to 5 pull ups ✨🤯

hey zesties!! 🍋

I am back with some workout content hehe today, I will be sharing one simple exercise that helped me to increase my pull up counts significantly.

It is likely not new to most of you but I can assure you that this exercise is very useful.

🙌🏼🙌🏼 It’s called pull up negatives!!

Essentially, negatives is when you use any support to raise yourself to a pull up, with your chin over the bar. Then, resisting gravity, you slowly lower yourself into a dead hang.

For the support to get you up, there are many ways.

1) A person 🏋🏼‍♀️

Someone can assist you by holding your back or legs to push you up to a pull up position

2) Resistance band

If you work out alone, fret not, a resistance band works equally as well. Tie the resistance band over the bar and use the resistance band to get yourself up.

Negatives really allows one to get used to the motion of doing an actual pull up. For most girls, we may not be very familiar with using the muscles used for a pull up. So this exercise allows us to engage those muscles better!

🤍 Don’t be too demoralised if you do not see results after training for a few days. You are improving but you just can’t see it yet - so keep pushing through!! Tbvh I was stuck at 3 pull ups for the longest time (almost a year or so), but I never stopped training and miraculously I could do 5 on a random gym day. All the best lovelies!! 🫶🏼🎀

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