Sep
24
Using A Height Adjustable Pull Up Bar and Leg Assisted Pull Ups
Filed Under Fitness Process & Techniques
People want to know how to teach all kids to succeed immediately on the pull up bar. The answer is that you use a Height Adjustable Pull Up Bar in conjunction with Leg Assisted Pull Ups. The following is an excerpt from and upcoming article entitled An Old Coach Offers A Simple Solution to Childhood Obesity that is scheduled to appear in Chicago Health and Wellness Magazine…
But Kids Hate Pull-Ups
I told the coach that I thought his logic was impeccable, but in my view he had one problem. According to my recollection, most kids hated pull-ups with a passion. And if they hate doing it, how can you teach them to perform pull-ups? They’ll drag their feet all the way to the gym, won’t they?
Using A Height Adjustable Pull-Up Bar
“Kids hate doing anything where they fail in public,” the coach replied. “The trick is to start them young before they learned to fail on the pull-up bar. Start them out on a color coded, height adjustable bar that allows them all to succeed immediately with leg- assisted pull-ups, jumping and pulling at the same time. With this inexpensive tool you’ll eliminate failure, and build regular success into the experience for all participants. And it’s the REGULAR SUCCESS…IN PUBLIC, that teaches kids learn to love, (instead of hate) doing pull ups”
How High Do You Set The Bar?
A couple of more questions popped into my mind immediately. First, how high do you set the bar when you’re starting a youngster out? And secondly, how do you adjust the level of difficulty in order to insure REGULAR PROGRESS? I could tell however, the wise old coach had an answer on the tip of his tongue.
The Progression
“You start the bar out low enough that the child can do at least 8 leg assisted pull-ups, but no more than 12. You allow them to work out twice a week and expect them to improve every time for a number of weeks, consecutively. In other words, in the second workout they should do 9, in the third 10, in the fourth 11, and in the fifth 12 leg assisted pull-ups. When they hit 12 repetitions you raise the bar one inch and they begin the 8-12 process all over again. This strategy allows a child to make a little progress every time he or she works out, and after several weeks they learn to EXPECT TO SUCCEED IN PUBLIC, which in turn teaches them to love instead of hate pull-ups.”
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