You're gonna be a beast when you get back on the wall. ;)
Yes, I might be a tiny fraction as strong as Fran! *g*
(Seriously, she can do a one arm pull-up off the back three fingers. She trains really hard and is brutally strong.)
But I can only dream of consecutive pull-ups at the moment... after each unassisted one I need a half-minute break.
That's still highly excellent. I imagine that you'll be able to shorten the breaks over time until you get two in a row for the first time. And/or work assisted pull-ups with the rubber band.
IIRC, it took me a while to get to my second pull-up -- I liked the Bodytribe article which pointed out that initially, a pull-up is a one-rep max. But it will come!
Then, anecdotally, there seems to be another plateau that people often hit at around 6 or 7 reps (I definitely did). I ran into the suggestion of starting weighted pull-ups to break through that, and that seems pretty effective so far.
I'd kind of thought of weighted pull-ups as the kind of thing you shouldn't even think about until you could do twenty pull-ups in a row, you know, but adding a mere 4kg (so far) has made the number of unweighted pull-ups I can do in a row start to spike up again.
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Yes, I might be a tiny fraction as strong as Fran! *g*
(Seriously, she can do a one arm pull-up off the back three fingers. She trains really hard and is brutally strong.)
But I can only dream of consecutive pull-ups at the moment... after each unassisted one I need a half-minute break.
That's still highly excellent. I imagine that you'll be able to shorten the breaks over time until you get two in a row for the first time. And/or work assisted pull-ups with the rubber band.
IIRC, it took me a while to get to my second pull-up -- I liked the Bodytribe article which pointed out that initially, a pull-up is a one-rep max. But it will come!
Then, anecdotally, there seems to be another plateau that people often hit at around 6 or 7 reps (I definitely did). I ran into the suggestion of starting weighted pull-ups to break through that, and that seems pretty effective so far.
I'd kind of thought of weighted pull-ups as the kind of thing you shouldn't even think about until you could do twenty pull-ups in a row, you know, but adding a mere 4kg (so far) has made the number of unweighted pull-ups I can do in a row start to spike up again.