Comments on: Day “5″ of P90X http://weblog.elwing.org/elwing/index.php/2009/04/24/day-5-of-p90x/ Elwing's rantings and ravings Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:45:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Walt http://weblog.elwing.org/elwing/index.php/2009/04/24/day-5-of-p90x/comment-page-1/#comment-8977 Walt Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:42:10 +0000 http://weblog.elwing.org/elwing/?p=923#comment-8977 Hopefully you mean resistance bands to do assisted pull-ups, and not some sort of banded row motion. Negatives are really useful in some situations, but not something I would suggest for starting out. IMO, they're useful in a somewhat different way than concentric motions, more as a plateau-breaker than from a gains perspective. Depending on what kind of pull-up bar you have (i.e., if it's a tension bar that just holds horizontally on the inside of the door jamb as opposed to those complicated ones that have to be at the top of the frame), you could lower it to a point where you can put your feet on the floor and do an angled pull-up, kind of like an upside-down push-up. The muscles it works aren't identical to a pull-up motion (it hits the latissimus closer to the spine compared to the outer lats), but it's a decent substitute, and keeps with the body-weight approach. Hopefully you mean resistance bands to do assisted pull-ups, and not some sort of banded row motion. Negatives are really useful in some situations, but not something I would suggest for starting out. IMO, they’re useful in a somewhat different way than concentric motions, more as a plateau-breaker than from a gains perspective.

Depending on what kind of pull-up bar you have (i.e., if it’s a tension bar that just holds horizontally on the inside of the door jamb as opposed to those complicated ones that have to be at the top of the frame), you could lower it to a point where you can put your feet on the floor and do an angled pull-up, kind of like an upside-down push-up. The muscles it works aren’t identical to a pull-up motion (it hits the latissimus closer to the spine compared to the outer lats), but it’s a decent substitute, and keeps with the body-weight approach.

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