frankieboy
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I work out everyday to get lighter and tone my muscles but still I can only do 2 pull ups! any tips? Thanks in advance....
Biggest thing I can say to that is don't work to "tone" your muscles, work towards performance. If all you do are beach body exercises you will not get very proficient at what the military demands.I work out everyday to get lighter and tone my muscles but still I can only do 2 pull ups! any tips? Thanks in advance....
Yeah definitely do more of them, but there are also a lot of auxiliary workouts you can do to help. I used to do a whole bunch of pullups at home to the point where I could do like 9, then I stopped doing any strength work at all for about a year. Then I started lifting weights and going to the gym a lot, including lots of lifts that target the same muscles you use for pullups. After not doing pullups at all for a really long time, one day I found my old pullup bar in my closet, jumped on, and did 12. Some of the weight stuff I was doing included:
1. Lat pulls: 6x8 or 8x6. These are great for pullups.
2. Low rows: 6-8x8 reps. Also great for your back.
3. Curls: 4-5x10 with 40-50lbs.
4. Skull crushers: 4-5x10 with 40lbs. Sometimes I superset these with curls for some extra pain
5. Reverse flies (think that's what they're called) laying face down on an inclined bench and moving your arms upward and out with dumbells.
6. Not sure what these are called, but you basically take a 10lb plate in each hand, hold them at your sides, and raise them straight out to about shoulder height as many times as you can. Repeat 2-3x.
Hope this helps. I would blend some of these workouts in with plenty of pullups and pushups if I were you. Good luck!
Thanks a lot!Plenty of threads on this. The most common recommendation is to do pullups. Get a pull up bar in your bedroom door and do as many pullups as possible every time you walk by. You'll be increasing that count in no time.