I can't even do one freakin pull! Man! I ordered P90X and so I bought a pull up bar in preperation and what a bummer.

But I am not too too worried I know I can work my way up. Anyone else go from none to some?

Haha, last time I could do a pull up was in 8th grade. And I mean A pull up. But I'm sure if you work on it, you will be doing them before you know it.

lol... pullups, yeah not in my regimen yet... still working on pushups, and those are few...

NightAngel26 - I finally have my pushups up to a number i like and am able to finally do a few regular ones...on to the next challenge

ToriLeigh - Totally~ I did it in like 5 grade! haha

Woot! congrats!! Honestly, I was looking at those neat gadgets that let you use your doorway... do you have one of those? I was looking into it...but then again I have very few real doorways

haha my boyfriend just got an iron gym pull up bar thing. And I tried to do one - FAIL! I could hardly get myself up! they are very very difficult! You'll get there though! How exciting that first pull up will be for you

NightAngel26 Yeah I have the doorway one. I got it at Walmart...super easy to assemble and place.

garstar Thanks

I've never even tried to do a pull up! congrats to you for trying and not giving up though!!!

I read this on my exercise forum so I gave it a try. Do you have a stability ball? Try kneeling on the ball under the bar, the ball will support some of your weight while you do a pullup; I had to use my legs to stablize on the ball and help push me up, but it did work! I had my Hubby spot me the first time in case I slid off, so he could catch me.

If you don't have a stab ball they can be found faily cheaply at TJMaxx, Marshalls, or Ross.

Hope that helps.

Penguin! I will have to try that. Need to pump up my stability ball. Thanks for the tip

aghhh! I still can't do it! trudging on!

Geez... I don't even think I have ever done ONE pull up. I am still doing knee pushups...

Hey! Don't get discouraged!

I started crossfit in July and I couldn't do one pull-up, now, I can do 12 consecutively, and there are workouts that I do that call for 100 pullups, and I can do it! Just keep on Keepin' on! Also, do negatives! (Where you jump up to the top of the pull up position, and slooooooowly lower yourself down to a hang, it really does work!

Sweet! Thanks for the advice! I am going to try that right now. Everytime I pass it in the hall I was giving it ****! lol

I have fairly pitiful upper body strength. I broke BOTH arms in Sept 08, and never fully regained my strength. Partly because working on arm strength hurts...pushups are simply impossible, not just because of strength, but that strain on my arms is painful.

Pullups are very hard though...I'll be super impressed when you can pump out a bunch of them, haha.