Achieving your first pull-up is a massive milestone for many who are getting started in fitness. But why are strict pull-ups so important?
Let’s find out 3 of the benefits of Strict Pull-Ups:
- Improving your upper-body strength – Pull-ups are a compound exercise utilising multiple muscles such as our lats, traps, deltoids, pecs, biceps and triceps. Compound exercises are great at improving our overall strength.
- Strengthen our core – Performing a good strict pull-up requires good midline strength. Keeping our body in a good position throughout the movement requires hard work, which then strengthens our midsection.
- Prevention of injuries – Performing strict pull-ups works our shoulder stabilisers. Strengthening these muscles is very important as we move into more dynamic movements such as kipping and butterfly pull-ups.
Need help to achieve your first Strict Pull-Up? We have a 4 week Program that is aimed at improving our upper body strength. This program is directed at those who are close to getting their first Strict Pull-Up and will be for 3 sessions a week with 2 exercises in each session. This program should not take longer than 10mins a session.
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Week 2
# 1
* Banded Strict Chin-Ups 4 x 10 Use a band that allows 10 unbroken reps
* Ring Rows 3 x 8
Week 3
# 1
* Banded Pull Downs 5 x 8* Ring Rows 3 x 10
# 2
* Banded Rows 3 x 12
* Banded Strict Chin-Ups 3 x 6 Use a band that allows 6 unbroken reps