On Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, was my attempt at 20 straight pull ups.

This was the 4th performance goal I set for myself and by far the hardest for me.

I’ve always been horrible at pull ups - as a kid, I could only do 1.

At the beginning of October, I could only do a mere 6.

But then I started training pull ups 3 days a week and got much stronger at them.

I didn’t quite reach full extension on my form and I didn’t quite reach my goal, but I did more pull ups than I had ever done before, so I was pretty pleased.

Check it out!

Scott

So my buddy Jerry Hill of the Cross Fit Old Town TV Show watched my pull up videos and noticed a flaw in my pull up technique.

He said I was not standing underneath the bar enough when I was initially starting my pull ups.

In other words, the bar was out in front of me too much.

This caused my arms (the smaller muscles) to do a lot more of the work than my larger back muscles.

An inefficient and much harder way to do pull ups.  You need to get those larger back muscles more involved so you can crank out more reps.

I changed my technique as Jerry suggested and my pull up training is going much better.

I’ll keep you updated on my quest to 20 pull ups.

Scott