This weeks video is back with a quick and engaging workout you can do using some principles from the pull video along with capitalizing on some techniques from the world of bodybuilding and calisthenics for muscle growth. This workout will not only help you when you’re in a pinch for time with nothing more than a barbell and lighter weights, but will also contribute to better body control. This can also be used to supplement your training towards pull-ups which we highlighted in yet another video some weeks back.

Sometimes the same technique we may use to help clients navigate through something like discomfort or pain in a particular movement can also be the same technique we use to perform better. . Give this subtle row technique adjustment a try and see if it helps you with either pain, performance, or perhaps both. . While not all issues people experience are due to the same underlying cause, many small tweaks that work for one set of issues can help due to overlap with another.

If you have ever wanted to learn or struggled to do pull-ups (let alone one pull-up), understanding how to best go about mastering one can lead you down a rabbit hole with conflicting advice and opinions.

The reality is that most people don’t just learn to do a pull-up overnight unless they have an extensive background in athletic endeavors and/or lots of calisthenic-type and resistance-type training. Even so, the smooth and well controlled pull-up can still take a while to master.

Today I still see a lot of impatience and also misguided ideas about how best to develop pull-ups. Case in point is the over-prescription of banded pull-ups in the absence of other exercises aimed at shoring up strength and endurance in the muscles required to do a clean pull-up.