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@mirager I’m so mad that everyone was right! I had so many reasons I was telling myself I just couldn’t do one — didn’t lift heavy enough, hands too small, weight was too much. But it turns out all of those reasons were wrong. Feeling the accessory muscles in my arms get sore as I practiced...

@llewyllen Good luck! Yeah it always made me giggle because if you get a thick band, it kind of shoots you up to the top of the bar and then you just have this slow, mildly humiliating drop to the bottom as you do the negative. But it works!

@llewyllen Thank you!! If it helps at all, when I would do them at the gym (I’m also way shorter than the bar there) I would use a band to do the “assisted” pull up until I got to the top, and then I would kick off the band and do the negative.

@acronus Thank you!! Keep us posted on your progress! Not that you asked for tips, but I ended up putting the bar in my bathroom doorway. I know, so weird! But then my rule was, whenever I went In there to fix makeup/hair, use the bathroom, wash hands etc, I would do one negative or dead hang...

@bio_student You got this!! 💪💪💪

@sunday1971 Thank you! As soon as I did my first real negative at home I was like “duh this is totally not the same thing”

@sunday1971 Mostly lat pull downs, and some other pull exercises. I admit this wasn’t the best method, which is why I kept ending up on here wondering why those weren’t helping.

@dawn16 I know :/ that’s what I kept saying. And I hated that everyone here was right 😅

@mendicant I put my bar in my bathroom doorway and then my rule was I did one negative or hang whenever I went in there. So probably 10-20 throughout the day/night every day? I counted them even if they were fails or super low effort. And I did them every day, and could tell they were working...

@neddynelima Yep! Just stop if you tweak something (I did day 4 or so)

You have to do negatives and dead hangs. You have to do pull ups consistently, throughout the day if possible. If you keep at it, and increase the number of negatives/length of dead hangs, you’ll make progress. Three weeks ago I bit the bullet after reading my 30th comment on here about...