Pinch Pull Ups are coming along awesome since I started training them again.
Pinch Pull Up with L Seat for a triple
Pinch Pull Up + 12kg kettlebell
I am able to hang from the bar with an additional 40 lbs, I believe I will be able to get some reps with the 16kg bell by the end of July. I find this is a useful drill to assist with my europinch deadlift. It is particularly helpful on days when my skin webbing is beat up from higher volume pinching.
Strongergrip will be introducing my custom bar as an item this summer for those who want to be able to pinch and use the pinch globes in their training.
My Pinch Pull Up development has been a by the way side goal. The improvements are steady and sustainable.
Here is my update from 1 March 2011 on my Europinch and Pinch Pull Up
Here was the very first time I got a triple in the standard pinch pull up from 22 Feb 2011
Here was the first pinch pull up big update post in early Feb 2011. Notice the beard, I look like the Honeycomb monster. The first person to note that was Ryan Pitts Strongergrip.com 8 year old son Logan. Well done lad!
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That pinch pullup shit is insane! A quick question… What else do you do for your training lately? I’ve been following your progress and I’m super pumped to see that you and Will (and many others) have become walking proof that you don’t have to choose between progress aesthetically and progress in terms of function. (Awesome post on that!) So, how did you do it in terms of movement? Do you have a regular thing going with clean and jerk, heavy swings, rows, etc for the aesthetic part? Just curious because you post mostly about grip stuff.
When I saw you doing this exercise, I said, “Looks like he’s training grip like a gymnist.” Any thoughts on gymnists, how strong they are, and how moving grip toward gymnist-type movements is refreshing, bas-ass, and potentially better than the norm?
Even with an injured back, I can do sets of 225 bench, but the other day at the park with my son, I tried to do the monkey bars and realized how weak I was in this type of movement. I said to myself there that I had to incorporate more gymnist-type exercises.
I agree with Joe, Adam. Pinch pull-ups are a level of awesome and ridiculous strength that I can comprehend. Bad ass.
Adam, this is FUCKING NUTS.
The limits of progress appear further than anyone ever thought possible or (as i suspect) completely nonexistent.
I bet this wasn’t even that hard for you. Jesus, can you imagine when a significant portion of the population runs themselves like this?
Better today than yesterday. It’s so simple.
a couple of days ago i did 110 pistols in one set (off leg hanging off a curb, maybe 3 inches, alternating legs every 5 reps). and it felt easy. I started training pistols less than 3 weeks ago.
progress looked like this:
day 1: 20 pistol negatives, rolling onto my back at the bottom
day 3: 30 assisted pistols using a vertical bar.
day 4: unrecorded (about 20) pistols off a balance beam 4 inches off the floor, with a dowel held out front for counterbalance
day 6: 100 recorded, more later in the day of balance-bean, dowel-holding pistols
day 7: unrecorded (maybe 40) on the beam with no dowel
day 8: first floor pistol, 80 on the beam
day 10: lots, unrecorded throughout the day (at work) pistols on the floor – sets of 1
day 12: sets of 3
day 14: sets of 5
day 17: sets of 6
day 19: set of 110, alt every 5.