So how many pull ups can you do? Five? Ten? Fifteen, maybe? Would you like to be able to do more? Perhaps you’re thinking about the Bar-barians challenge, which involves 20 pull ups. Or maybe you’d just like to be able to rattle out more than your training partner at the gym, while the treadmill [...]
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What to do if your shoulder hurts doing pull ups
September 28th, 2009 6 Comments
Relax, this may not be the end of the world. Follow these steps for pain relief. Don’t necessarily rely on your doctor for sports-specific injury help My friends often ask me why I go to a physical therapist or a sports massage therapist rather than taking advantage of the NHS, which is free (I live [...]
Tags: bench · bench press · injury · pull up · pull ups · Shoulder Injury · Shoulder Pain
Introducing: pull ups and chins
September 21st, 2009 4 Comments
This is the first article in a 5-part series about pull ups and chins. This article is a general FAQ and then I’m going to explore this king of vertical pulling movements in more detail over the next 5 weeks as follows: Starting out – how to work up to one pull up if you [...]
Tags: chin · Chin Up · Chinning · Chins · pull up · pull ups
