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Monday, August 23, 2010 at 10:59PM 10 Push Press
10 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls
5 Burpees
5 Pull-ups
Amrap 20
DISCLAIMER - I have no idea who the athletes are in the following pictures, and I don't know when in the execution of their pull-ups the picture was snapped. I'm mearly trying to illustrate a point, so I beg forgiveness if you or your loved one is pictured doing a 'bad' pull-up and was actually in the process of pulling off a good one. Their sacrifice for the sake of learning will be remembered.
Hey there lil tyke! You said you wanted to learn about Pull-ups, did ya? (yeah, you did) Well, Brian S.'ll son you and ruffle your hair like Grandpa used to. Then he'll sit you down for story-time and weave tales of how they done grabbed onto tree branches and rock overhangs and put their chins over them in the olden days.
But that's neither here nor there. We're discussing Pull-ups like adults here. There's this unfortunate tendency some athletes have of 'stringing Pull-ups together' and failing to extend their elbows even once over the course of their many unbrokens. If this reminds you of you, stop doing it immediately. Male or female, old or young, experienced or inexperienced, if you're doing all these Pull-ups and not fully extending your elbows, you're being a sissy about it. I don't care if you can get 'one hundred unbroken like Spealer.' In all truth, the whole thing is Snuggle Dryer Sheet soft, and shouldn't be allowed around the iron.
Pull-up starting point breakdown:
NO, YOU FOOLS!!
si, siAs a Coach I'd rather see an athlete struggle like hell and be forced to execute one perfect single at a time rather than watch that same athlete string twenty 'kips' together with suspect form. Our bodies will more readily adapt to those single, serious Pull-ups than they will the multiple crappy ones. At the end of the day 'work capacity' is what this game is about. It's a quality versus quantity thing, and we'll take quality first because we know the quantity will naturally follow suit. Follow me?
And what about those workouts where you have to complete a great many pull-ups at a time? "Well," I reply. "That's what scaling is for, lass."
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