How to Build Muscle with Pullups (WITHOUT WEIGHTS!)

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Making pull ups harder may not be the goal of everybody but if you’ve been doing pull ups for any length of time you’re probably able to do quite a bit of them. 60% off all AX programs - http://athleanx.com/x/409-workouts Subscribe to this channel here - http://bit.ly/2b0coMW For many people, bodyweight exercises often get used as rep builders meaning that they continue to do more and more reps rather than finding methods to increase overload. There’s nothing wrong with doing sets of high rep pull ups. There is probably no other exercise that is a demonstration of an athletes overall body command and athleticism than the pull up but if you’re after hypertrophy, high rep sets of anything isn’t going to get you where you want to be as well as good old fashion overload. The simplest way to overload on pull-ups is by adding weight but a lot of calisthenic practitioners may not have access to weights. That’s where todays tip comes can help. We know that the eccentric portion of the lift allows us a great opportunity to exploit the sort of micro damage that can lead to protein synthesis and therefore hypertrophy. Problem is, if you’re really good at pull ups you’re going to spend a lot of time on the bar. The eccentric phase of the exercise also happens to be the strongest portion of the exercises. By incorporating today’s technique you’re able to combine the strength of the eccentric phase with the disadvantage of performing what is essentially an assisted one arm pull up.

Published 2018-06-06 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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