✅ The easiest place to start is to pull ourselves up from the ground. This variation gives us an opportunity to learn how to engage the back and core with a stable base support.

🆙 Elevating the feet removes the stable base and increases the demands on core and upper body. This can be difficult enough sometimes used for later stage progression.

🤙🏼 Hanging improves grip strength (can’t do pull ups without gripping the bar), scap pull ups develops scapular awareness and strengthens the stabilizers needed during pull ups.

⬇️ Bands take away some gravity while still maintaining the core demand. Perform these safely of course.

💪🏼 Even if we can’t do a pull up, we can still lower ourselves from the bar for a few seconds - this is because our muscles are stronger during the lowering part (the eccentric phase). Work on slow eccentrics to practice recruiting the muscles needed.

🚨 There are many things we can do to improve our pull up game, but nothing replaces practicing the actual movement. Frequency is key 🔑

Happy training!