0 to 5 Pull Ups in 5 Steps - US Marine // Michael Eckert
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This video will 100% help you and teach you how to bring yourself from zero Pull Ups to 5 and beyond. I use these same principles even though I can already do 60 in a row!!
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I’m 70 yrs old and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease 10 years ago. I exercise 7 days a week to slow the progression of the disease. Today I tried just a static hang from a bar at the gym. I lasted 40 seconds. I thought I would try to do a pull-up because I haven’t done ay since I was in my 50’s. I was unable to do even 1/2 a pull-up. thank you for this great video. My goal is to do two pull-ups within the next 90 days. I appreciate you taking the time to post this! Jim in Oregon
40 seconds is a great start! What got me going was: starting with chin above the bar, slowly as possible, lower my body until I was just hanging on with straight arms. After a couple weeks, I was lengthening the lowering time, and eventually started pulling back up. At first, just 1/4 of a pull up, but eventually got to one full pull up. Months later I could do 5 good ones! My elbows were hurting, so I changed to inclined pull ups, and I do 10 to 15 of them every time I go down the cellar to get a beer. Never Quit!
PS, I'm only one year younger than you.
Good morning, Jim! Did you do it?
Hey everyone!! I spent more time on this video and I hope it helps!! Don’t forget to share some feedback and hit that like button!! 💪🔥
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Yeah.... See me do 100 now
Y're forearms are next level.#Respect Man
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@@andrewmagee1666 the Michael erckert video...lol that guy has too much pain
I used to be 330 lbs and back then my friend would not let me not try a pull up, to the point where he held my legs during one and my grip failed me and I face planted in the gym. Now I'm pushing down on 250 lbs and while I still can't do a full pull up, I can hold myself for a few seconds and can even flex a touch of movement. Gonna get there one day!
That’s awesome keep it up
Me and you gonna get through it together 😤😤
Grip strength: farmers walks. Go till failure. Pinch plate hold..stand stationary. Squeeze until failure. Then dead hangs- thumb under or over the bar. No leg crossing Bicep curl with standard barbell for bicep. Plate pull Isometric contraction. Hold yourself in any position within a pull up. Negatives. Step on an object and lower. Takes out concentric portion of pullup Assisted pullup
Many thanks ,cheers.
Really good instructional video. I'm 68 & never could do a pull-up. My goal is 8 to 10. I'll try your ideas. And a huge thanks for not blasting background music while you're talking, teaching us!
I’m with you - both about the blasting music and wanting to do some pull-ups. I wish you all the best as you work on this! Jim in Oregon
@@jimcoon I worked up to 10, but my elbows hurt, so I lowered my bar (hung from floor joists with rope) and now I do them inclined. Like an opposite push up or opposite inclined bench press. Less stress on the elbows!
I'm starting my first pull up journey, and this is by far the best and most thorough pull up progression I've seen. Thank you for your service and for this video!
How’s it going?
He gave 🆙
@@jjs01 He Gave 🆙
@@Agent_Black72 Too bad man, I had my money on him! 🤷🏻♂️
I’m a 40 year old disabled veteran. I can still do 10 - 12 pull-ups, but I’m using these conditioning exercises to get my damaged joints strong again.
God bless you sir
Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service sir 🫡
Top man stay strong brother
Lol I am 55 haven't done a pull up for years but I am going to go to find a bar and ruin you lol
It's very revealing that this video about getting to 5 pull-ups has far fewer views than the one with the tips for how to get to 60 pull-ups.
There's a video that teaches how to get to 60?! Link!
@@ScottyLovey just get to 1-5 and then keep doing it. It’s pretty simple. You just keep practicing.
@@ScottyLovey just get to 1-5 and then keep doing it. It’s pretty simple. You just keep practicing.
@@ScottyLovey i hope that was a joke
My problem is the sholders. Pain problems in sholders long before arm, elbow, hand strenght. I train a lot and my dead lift is ok. Ok I am old. .. so I guess it is normal...
That was easily the most thorough tutorial I’ve ever seen on pull up progression. I’ll be starting with step one tomorrow in the gym. Thanks.
Update???
Right,very clear instructions,and gives confidence that you may be able to eventually do a few pushups
Wonderful to find you Michael - you're making me stronger!
What solid advice. I never even considered the importance of grip strength. Farmer walks are definitely going into my training.
This need more views, you really help my strength to do better pull ups, thank you so much.
I have never come across a more complete breakdown for this exercise! Thank you.
I used to do 15 pull-ups while smoking when I was 18. I am 87 kilos now and I can’t even pull one. I will back to the past and I will revive my rusted body.
I honestly wish I could have met you while I was in. I feel like you could have helped me a lot with some of my goals I had but thanks for continuing to post videos they still motivate me.
Best collection of pullup tips. Gonna use it. Thanks man.
When I first started I could do about half of a chin up, so I did partial reps and negatives. I'd pull myself up as high as I could with an underhand grip, then boost myself up to where my chin was over the bar, then slowly lower myself back down to the bottom and repeat 3 to 5 times. After a few workouts I got my first full chinup. The next couple workouts I did one full chinup, then partials and negatives. Then I did two chins followed by partials and negatives, and so on. Once I could do 3 chinups I was able to get my first pullup, so I did one pullup then switched my grip and did 2 chinups, then did a couple more sets of chins. This also was when I stopped doing negatives and patials. Once I was strong enough to do 5 chinups I was able to do 2 or 3 pullups back to back, so I'd do 2 sets of pullups followed by 2 sets of chins for a total of 4-6 pullups and 7-8 chins. My bests so far are 4 pullups or 8 chins at ~185lbs last summer, and now 4 pullups or 6 chins about 9 months later at ~220lbs. Now I just need to drop the fat and I should be doing 8-10 pullups and 12-15 chins per set. It's worth noting that I'm 35 years old, struggle with diet due to inflammatory bowel disease, and and life often gets in the way so I've gone through multiple setbacks where I'd lose strength due to a layoff then spend several weeks regaining lost strength before making more progress. Whatever happens, just keep plugging along and you'll keep progressing. Setbacks happen but as long as you keep putting in the effort youll keep progressing.
I have watched a bunch of pull up videos this was the most thorough ive ever seen! Semper Fi 👊🏼
Thank you. Very thorough, particularly about grip and arm strength and how to build it.
This is by far the best video I’ve seen on improving one’s pull-up ability. Thank you
I took these steps as the benchmark for trying to improve as fast as possible. At the end of February I could barely lift my body a few inches. Now I can do 2-3 clean and moving quick towards 5, aiming for 10. The exercises are a great foundation, I'd advise studying the technique carefully. For me how all the muscles worked today was completely counter-intuitive, and knowing to pack back, contract legs and activate core meant I'm moving quickly from 1 forwards. Also pay attention to scapula. Get your pull largely vertical but your angle correct. Technique and strength will do a lot alone, but fat loss and a few excercises just to get the motions to certain parts of the motion area important too. I've been making a lot of progress working on them every day, you're trying to improve a strength exercise here, not build muscle.
This is what I did to go from 7 pull ups to 20 back when I was in my late 30's.: 1. Do pull ups 2x/week. This is an exercise you need to do a couple times a week to get better. Make sure you have at least 2 days rest between though. 2. Having a spotter will help you improve much faster. Go to fatigue and have your spotter help you with a few more reps focusing on the negative resistance. My wife and I did them together on Saturdays. (She was able to do 12 unassisted pull ups). 3. If you are over weight do you best to lose fat. If you lose 10lbs of fat that is 10lbs less you are pulling up. That's it, I didn't do any farmers walks or grip strengthening or extra bicep curls, (I have very weak biceps by the way, the max I could curl was a 30lb dumbbell).
I love after and before pictures. They're great to show you what something was like before the improvement.
Thank you Staff Sargent Eckert. I am looking forward to using these tips in the pursuit of improving my pull-up routine. Cheers.
I like it most because it was away from the gym .If I remember right , your home manually made stretch exercise units were inspiring . Thanks .
Thank you for your service to our country! Thank you for this video, saved it for my goal of being able to do pull ups!
This is very helpful for my military prep. Thank you for the advice!! 👍
Staeted 10/13/1987 boot camp with 15, 2 months later,30 back to back pull-ups! Great video Marine!
Thank you very much staff srgt. Eckert.
It’s working! I hit my PR today! Just been doing a couple of these exercises along with my routine! Hoorah! Thanks brother 🇺🇸🤛
To be honest you are strong without looking bulked up. That's dope
Being bulky honestly doesnt mean much, unless youre a strong man
Thats basically how people without peds Look..
being bulky in battlefied is recipe for death because you're too heavy & too big a target.
He is just not taking any steroids. Unlike many other who illustustrate this exercise shirtless.
That's power of calisthenics
Gold. Michael is the best.
I’ve just added pull ups to my training. But one thing I’ve added to aid in this was walking lunges with kettlebells. Which I feel addresses your first suggestion as it’s heavy weights being gripped tight and I’m moving around, plus I get the benefits of doing lunges.
thanks for the motivation. When I was young I could do these things soooo easily. Now, over 50, I feel like I weigh as much as a tank. Incredible.
So true. same here. I'm frustrated i can't do more than 2.
AWESOME. Thanks for creating the video and sharing this information. Thanks
5 steps with extra steps . Thank you for the infos 😁
Excellent video Mike. Looking forward to improving my grip strength and just ordered a bar. Youre spot on re grip strength - definitely a weak are I intend to improve upon.
Thank you staff sergeant!
Thanks a lot sir... this video was very helpful to me!! 💪🏾
It was pretty fun getting to go to a huge air force base I live close to with a couple of my best friends and some marine corps recruiters were there and doing a lot of the work outs they have at basic training.
Cool. Thanks. I'll try this tomorrow. Great transitions.
Excellent tutorial. Thank you.
Thanks Michael.. really helpful 🙏🏼🔥💯👍
Excellent vid. Thanks Marine. For all you do.
This was really complete, great job!
That was an excellent video! Very informative.
Very good tips very solid went to the park a few years ago and I couldn’t do one, but I included gradual underhand and overhand body weight rows and was able to do 3 so all these steps do really work.oorah!
Thank you Sir, will do this. I'm a beginner in pull ups.
Good shit Devil Dog. Congrats on the promotion 💪
April 2021 was the very first time I started doing pull-ups. I took a metal bar, a few straps and wrapped them around the RSJ beam in my garage. On Day 1, I couldn't even do one pull-up. I was 48 years old when first started doing pull-ups and was reasonably fit. I started doing reverse pull-ups for the first fews weeks. Only then, I was able to do 1 pull-up. By the end of Summer, I was able to 5-6. Then Autumn came, and I didn't do any. I restarted back in January 2022 and I struggled doing 1-2 pull-ups. I decided to build back up gradually and did 1 pull-up for the whole of January. Then for the whole of February I did 2 pull-ups. The goal was by the end of 2022, I would be able to do 12 pull-ups. By August, I reached 8 pull-ups and was struggling to do anymore by September. I decided to put extra weight in a backpack and use that for a few weeks to see if the extra weight helped. It did help and was managed to do 9 pull-ups. Then I suffered back and neck pain (old injury), so didn't do any pull-ups for a while. Now Mid October, I have managed to get back to 7 pull-ups
Nice work
Thank you for your service!
Insane video KZhead should pay you just for uploading this amazing content god bless brother
really like your channel, great tips as I am looking to do more than 6 pull ups.
My son has been using your techniques to help him with his CFA assessment. You have been very helpful. Gripping, wide pulls and additional tips have worked for him.
Thank you so much trying to prep for basic training
Huge respect for the army, studied in an army school but couldn't get selected for the army. Salute.
excellent descriptions, thanks!
helpful teaching.Thanks for this, sargeant.👍
Thank you!! The best tutorial!!
super in depth awesome video brotha
The lowering one is what I find really helps me. And as a stretch I usually hang for a bit
excellent...I will begin incorporating all of these..
One of the things that leveled up my ability at pull-ups was to consciously engage my back muscles in the contraction rather than just using arms and shoulders. This was a great video but I would have liked to have learned a bit more about the technique of the motion. Maybe another video?
your the best to follow michael !
Good tutorial. I already used some of these methods but wanted to learn a few more to get better.
all advice i needed
Hope you see this one day... 💐💐💐 I've been stuck in step 4 (negatives) for a very long while, and I've been thinking of getting a resistance band for quite a while. I'm so glad I came across your video to find out not only that this is the best thing to do next, but also the REASON behind it. Thank you for youe service and this great tutorial ❤💪❤
Did u achieve the pull up? Hows ur progress??
Took me 11 months to do 20. After that my standard workout became 10 sets of 20 then 25 every 4 minutes 2 or 3 times per week. I did 40 on my 40th birthday. Never lifted weights. Had massive callouses on my hands. Timing is important, builds endurance.
Thank you sir!
Excellent logical progression.
Great video.. Thanks sir🙏🙏
Great guide :) thank you
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Thanks man you’re a legend
fantastic advice, cheers
I wish I watched your video two months before. Thanks!
Great video I’ll start working on these
I am 45 and doing pullups with a torn A/C joint. I did 100 during the Murph the other day. I can only do 7 at a time. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Michael. 🙂
Great job. Very knowledgeable content
Continued success.
Regarding whether you place arms closer to shoulder length or wide apart really depends on what muscle group you're strong at. My highest back in the olden days was 27 pull ups (upper chest actually touching the bar, not just tilt the chin up) and I used back hand and wide opened arms. Any other positions will greatly affect my effectiveless. So, really depends on individual.
Appreciate it exactly what I being looking for I’m 48 years old looking to be in better shape but this pull ups are extremely hard for me to do it thanks for the instructions very well explained it And thank you for yo service
Great video and information... the funniest bit was at the start where he was trying to play "guy who can't do pull-ups" because he clearly can. It's like a good singer trying to sing badly. Also, 25lb plates for pinching... that's GOALS.
65 Navy Vet. I used to do these easily, now I'm getting back in shape. I'll try your routine, only I don't have plates so I'm not sure how I'll improvise that one.
Very helpful! Thank you!
First CrossFit gym I was a member of was owned by a marine. He did a workout with us one day, with farmer carries. He sprinted with 100# kettlebells in each hand and I screamed in disbelief like a child.
Eccellent video. Prrfect to start being able to do pull up
Thank you so much!
Man I wish I saw this video 2 years ago lol. Great demonstrations.
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL for beginners/ME! Thanks!!!!
good session!!
Much respect to you Sir. Do you have any recommendations for ppl. In wheelchairs??
so helpful thank you!
Great video ! Thanks for sharing insights
When I see you mentioned grip strenght I knew you have your shit together.
Love from Italy!!
Outstanding video!
Outstanding video
I just wanted to state that I have only done a single in my life, but for two years I held school record on time in which I ran my mile. Never count one out due to ability. If I had this advice when I was in school and started dropping weight, surely I'd nail it.