I was a Marine. I did a 300pft many times. I did tons of pull ups on my liberty. One trick I used is two days before a pft I would do 100 pull ups. One day before a pft I would rest and eat no food all day. So the day of the pft I felt light as a feather And strong as a bee. I’m now 59 and have a pull up bar next to my bed. On my 40th birthday I did 400 pull ups
Rob Cha I'm a retired marine and what helped me was pyramiding. That means do one pull do five push ups. Do two pull ups do five push ups. Do three pull ups do five push ups and so forth till you get to ten pull ups.
like.. diamond pushups or regular pushups. just wondering, and i'm gonna read this Major's guide, i've never fucking figured out the 'use your back' pullups although I hear you can do much more than bicep pullups, but everytime I try it, I always fail(and have no idea how the form works)
+quicklode incorporate as many forward grip as you can do (if it's zero then start with a hang) and do the rest of your pull-ups reverse grip. Once you can do 5 forward grip pull-ups train those exclusively.
I seem to remember, as a teen, not being able to do any. I started in 8th grade with barely one, then every day on the bar, I got stronger and stronger. 20 took about 3 moths and in 10th grade my max was 33. In the corps, I always got 20. Now 4 decades later, I can still do about 12, sometimes struggle and do 15 but it takes a daily regimen of alternating a single max set, with multiple sets at half-max, if memory serves me right. For example if one's max is 12, do 5 or 6 sets of 1/2 max or 6, rest a day, do a max set, rest and repeat. I am starting this process again, at 66, to try to get my old 20+ max.
I'm starting over at 52. I've had some injuries pull me away but my daughter, 8 has started challenging me. She's up to 3. She pedals like a bicycle, it's funny as hell.
For anyone wondering how to do more pull-ups or what the program is, there’s a link in the description that gives a lot of detailed advice! Good luck Marines, and anyone else who needs it!
I went to the link. It is a pdf that is difficult to understand. The whole point of UA-cam is to explain things with video. Also, a video would have been easier to make than that complex pdf.
The main secret is to hook your thumbs over the bar so your forearms don't get fatigued from gripping the bar. Second secret is to lean back and engage your entire back so it becomes almost a rowing motion. If you pull straight up, you are relying only on arm, shoulders, and lat muscles.
Any one still watching this and can’t figure it out...this is how I went from 15-30 pull ups in 6 months while deployed: do 5 max sets a day, every day. Even if you’re sore and can only do 3, max out 5 times a day. Getting better at pull ups is all about constantly signaling your body.
That means you're doing three times the number you were previously able to accomplish. (Or is that five times?) Regardless, congratulations. Keep up the good work.
To be honest, the secret is to literally just doing more pull-ups. Assistance exercises like rows and bicep curls could help out with grip strength and things like that but honestly if you work on doing pull-ups every other day you'll get very good at them very quickly. Sometimes you can change up how many you do, for instance...Monday: 3 sets to complete failure (treat every set like it is the day of your PFT, rest about 1.5-2 minutes in between sets) Wednesday: Take the number you did from the first set yesterday (so your max pull-ups at full strength) and then cut it in half. Do continuous sets until you can't reach that number anymore and then do one last burnout set. Example: my best right now is 16, I would do sets of 8 until I couldn't hit 8 anymore, and obviously resting in between sets. Friday: Change up grips (wide, normal, neutral, chin-ups), and maybe throw in some negatives if you'd like and have fun with it. Case and point just doing more pull-ups will help you the most.
You're 100% right. A lot of folks try to do other exercises to build up the strength to do pull ups but the best way to do pull ups is to simply hang on the bar for any duration of time and attempt to pull up. If you want to do something other than hanging off the bar you should try hanging up on the bar and doing negatives. Don't waste time doing anything else and you'll find yourself doing a lot more pull ups. The only problem is that trying to do pull ups is quite boring. I think a lot of folks end up trying to do something else then find they still can't do pull ups despite that. So the best way I find is that you should try to do pull ups all day long. Get a bar and just try to do a pull up here and there or just hang on the bar for a little and do something else. The idea is the bar will build up all the proper strength to do an exercise.
All Marines should be trained in basic gym and weight lifting classes. There is no secret to pull ups other than putting time in the gym. I never touched a pull up bar to train for pull ups until I reached a consistent max of 23.
Yes, you are right. Best way to do pull-ups is to do it every day. When we do something regularly, it becomes a habit. Perfection will Automatically comes in when we do it regularly. I did my first chin-up and pull-ups without any assistance. I did 5 for both. It's better to do smaller reps for beginners.For example, one should do 2 reps/6 sets and gradually increase the reps/sets.
I got good at pull-ups by doing the flex am hang for as long as I could hold it. After a few weeks I could do about 3 but after a few months I got up to 10. Technique is important and so is confidence but practice is key.
If you can do 5 pull ups, start doing dropsets with an assistance band until you can do 10 reps unassisted. After that, start doing weighted pull ups with 10-20 pounds until you can do 5 sets of 5. Then do drop sets going from wheighted straight to assisted.
IncognegroFidelity I don't remember. I have not done pull ups for the Marines in a while. But I sure as hell was not doing anywhere near the minimum which is way to low.
I read the guide in the description. The main thing I think its missing is "plateauing". That is, when a training program no longer benefits a person and only maintains. When I was trying to increase my pull-up count, there came a point where just doing pullups regularly throughout the day, did nothing for me. That was around the 16-18 pullup mark for me. For awhile I thought I was overtraining or something, so I spread all my pull-up related workouts to only 2-3 times per week. That did nothing for me. I tried challenges like "every minute on the minute" and doing max sets every hour every other day. Nothing. The fastest way I found personally to fix that was to add weight (ie. a backpack) with a few pounds of gear in it and do max sets with that for a couple weeks, and then go back to doing bodyweight sets. Easily gained 5-6 pullups added to my max set. I believe that is the secret to pullups.
My way of training to do more pull-ups is to do weighted pull-ups. I have seen a big growth in the number of pull-ups I can do without the weights now compared to when I wasn't using the weights
I accidentally did this program last summer. Every time I cussed I made myself do 3 pullups (around a dozen to 20 times a day). In about 3 weeks I went from doing 4 or 5 pullups to 9. Also, ran a mile per every cig a day (4-6). Took my run time down about 2 min as well in 3 weeks. I would split the mileage in between HIIT and distance.
I flatlined my pullup count at 15, but I added weights to a backpack and wore it while doing them. Now I can do loads more. If you do this, be careful not to screw up your back.
I use a backpack full of books for pushups, but for pullups I don't really want weight hanging on my traps...I shouldn't of try it though...may not actually be a problem
Google the Armstrong pull up program. I used this to more than double my pull ups when I was in. This program allows you the freedom to start wherever. Its amazing.
The biggest problem people have with pull-ups is that they're too fat! Pull-ups start in the kitchen. Get off the carbs, up the protein. I lost 20lb in a couple of months. Can now do pull-ups. Not many but at 50 years old, I'm doing more than I ever managed as a kid.
Thank you for your time and effort in truly helping those in need of a different mind set. It is true when You put Mind over matter, Accomplishments are formed. I appreciate Your Service Ma'am.
For such a famous and high ranking Marine... She was very welcoming. I met her last Thursday at a pull-up clinic and she was perhaps one of the friendliest people I've ever met. If she EVER is in your area, go to her, she's super approachable.
"There's not really a lot of information about how to do a pull up." Google, one of the single greatest repositories for collected human knowledge in existence: *am I a joke to you?*
For anyone wanting to do more I recommend activating your back when doing your pull ups and make sure you’re bringing chest to the bar and not letting your shoulders and neck crunch with it
You need the right tools yeh. Something above your head to grab onto. Practice ladies. pull your body up, literally. Build those muscles. Thats all it takes.
One additional compliment to both pull ups and chin ups (palms facing away, palms facing inward, respectively) is at the end of both, half way up, to a greater extent half way down, STOP, HOLD.............. Lock your arms in a 90 degree position and HOLD. Hold for as long as you realistically can and then proceed to (try to) go up one last time, or, if you are on the down motion, after the hold, let yourself down fully. This is, at that point, a pure ISOMETRIC and isometric is beyond critically important toward increasing strength. Incorporate isometric in any number of exercise. Also with pull ups and chin ups, many go too fast. While a quick upward movement is a good thing at times with a slow downward movement, try sets where you are going up slowly and down even slower. A "simple" set of "only" ten - SLOWLY executed will be a real eye opener for many who heretofore like to jackrabbit up and down as quick as possible and by same achieving a higher numerical.
Excellent job Major! Thank you for solving this for all Marines and for helping to silence those naysayers that are still in the dark ages about the capabilities of Women Marines. OORAH M'am! - GySgt USMC ret.
The capabilities of women Marines...Do NOT include being able to best Russian, Chinese, Syrian, Iraqi, etc., males in hand-to-hand combat. The capabilities of women Marines do NOT include not bleeding out of their genitals and cramping painfully once a month while on long patrols. The capabilities of women Marines no NOT include having less body-fat and more testosterone-induced muscular hypertrophy, resulting in naturally higher muscular strength and development. I could literally type paragraphs, but it's sad that we live in a day when people are blind to the fact that men have evolved to be bigger, stronger, faster, more explosive, more capable of violence, and more able to endure long-term physical hardship, than women. You can indulge in your GI Jane fantasies until kingdom come, but you can't change evolution no matter how much you sulk and whine. When women Marines are getting their necks snapped in close combat, when women Marines are being raped to death by subhuman ISIS fighters, when women Marines slowing down and reducing the overall capability of the entire unit, and getting male Marines killed as a result, hopefully you'll reconsider. Say what you will about the Israelis, but their military is honed to protect a small nation in a hostile land, and they withdrew females from combat units after a trial period because it DID. NOT. WORK. They've integrated women into the air forces, MPs, intelligence, and a myriad of other occupations with great success, but direct ground combat is no place for women. Period.
All of your points are interesting, but none of them are germane to the video on which I commented. I thought the video was about PT? If I were to expand on it I'd say that those that believe in gender-norming are the ones to whom I'm addressing. As well as those who still, for reasons I can't fathom, want to put Women Marines into some sort of box. When I first went in women had just started having the same uniforms as the men (though they were only issued 2 sets of cammies). The mile and a half PT run was still relatively new, and they women Marines didn't fire the rifle at all! When those things were changed, there was an uproar that "women won't be able to get into the firing positions" and "they will be taking training time away from the men" and most egregious, "the are genetically incapable of firing better than low marksman!" All of which were just wrong. That said, At which point did my comments even intimate comparisons between female and male Marines, or women in ground combat, or the biological differences between men and women? Talk about over reach and only being able to see through the prism of one's ideology. Regardless of the aforementioned issues, bringing the PFT into synch with the current male standard is a good thing for the Corps. And female Marines doing pull ups is the first, and necessary step to accomplishing that goal.
A little late but start doing as many as possible, then the next day do a set of your max minus 3, then your max, then your max plus 3, then your max minus one. Do this every other day with about 1 to 5 minutes of rest as needed between sets, the less the better. Every two weeks do a day where you just do as many as possible until you physically cant, then modify your routine using that as your max.
i honer you all very much my husband was in the marines27 years it was rough but he passed away at 45 a massive heart attack .god bless you men an woman
20 pull ups are Maj. Poses. When told to mount the bar and start doing your PFT. I placed 80% of my body weight on dominant side. Per se 12 or 14 reps (130 lbs.) Then ease your weight to less dominant steadily six more reps to get 20. Hope this advice helps to all Marines. Ooh Rah!
Dannie Morgan Start lifting. Work a main body part each day, incorporate an ab workout at the end of each workout to develop your core. As you build muscles throughout your body attempt a single pull up each day. After you get one. Try for two, then three and so on.
Negative vertical push ups is one way of starting. Also, horizontal rows (sometimes called Australian pull ups) and incrementally decrease the angle towards vertical. Also, learning the kip pull up technique allows you to develop the feel of vertical movement. Once you can do three, then pyramiding (perform 1 pull up, then rest, perform 2 pull ups then rest, etc. and then back down after you reach your target number) a la the Navy Seal and the USMC Workouts, will help you develop strength.
What you are talking about, is the arm being so far forward right? (Like a reverse grip chin up rather than a pull-up) That definitely makes it easier, the arm more to the side uses more back, less bicep. (If I want to do biceps.........I'll finish up with chin-ups or do some curls.......always do the pronated grip first)
For 18 of my 22 years in the Corps male Marines were allowed to use the kip on PFTs. I changed over to dead-hang at a PFT a few years before the change happened, but it took me about a year to regain the 8 pull ups I lost to get back up to 20. I used the Navy Seal workout at the time. It took longer, as it's a progressive workout, but the result is that even having been retired going on 16 years I can STILL do 20 pull ups. Anyway, a way to transition female Marines to the male standard would've been to allow them to kip pull ups. That would've demystified the action to them and their muscles. Then, a progression that required at least 3 dead-hang pull ups within all of their pull ups, and finally removing the kip. Use the kip would also immediately negate the issue of upper body strength differences and allowed an immediate change to the standard once the technique was acquired.
one thing that helped me was to think more chest to bar rather then trying to get ur chin to bar ...also helps use more of your back muscles rather then biceps in the pull-up ...so think to urself chest up when hanging ...this contracts your back and shoulders lifting ur chest up, then as you begin to bring ur chest to the bar your back is already activated in pulling urself up rather then relying on your biceps to pull most of your weight ...it really helps. Remember Pull-up is a Back Focused Exercise with wider grip, while Chin-up is a Bicep Focused Exercise with narrow grip.
Major Posey- would love to see a UA-cam demo video where you explain the training program that is laid out in the documents and then have people demonstrate each of the moves for us. Thanks!
So the Marines assigned her to teach other Marines how to do pull-ups incorrectly? Look at the 0:46 - 0:49 range. Your legs should not come forward like that, which gives you momentum of the leg mass going upwards to assist, cheating the upper body muscles from developing.
Hey, how 'bout you actually mention the tips.... A big one is just doing them regularly where you develop grip strength. Another is to engage your core, she's doing that when she's caught talking about the legs being brought forward. I'm a Marine from the '80's - back then I was maybe able to knock out 14, today at 55 I can do 20+ One thing I stared doing was alternate grip, so, 10 overhand pull-ups, then alternating with each hand facing different directions each way, so two more sets of ten, then 10 chin-ups with palms facing you. So that's a total of 40 - Do that every day, at least once a day for two weeks, more than once a day if you can find the time - After a couple weeks give standard pull-ups a shot and you'll really surprise yourself
I read her stuff, it's pretty much the same advice one would get doing a simple google search. But honestly, just keep doing pull ups; most marines can lift their own body weight. Other than the basic advice of, "do negatives, do pyramids, get someone to assist you..." If gym access is available to you, warm up with some lat pull downs to activate those lats, work on scapular retractio, mind muscle connection, and all that stuff. Lat pull downs aren't a 100% perfect substitute for an actual pull up, but it is pretty close.
If you are reading this and legitimately looking for advice then know this: there is no secret. There are no tricks. There are no tips. This sentiment is true for nearly all skills in life. If you want to get better at pull ups. Do as many as you can as often as you can. If you cannot do any use a resistance band or machine. That’s it. Source: former Sgt and used to be able to do 25 clean ones in my boots
I'm telling you U.S. Marines deserve it. U.S. Marines are tough, they look good, clean, strong, and bad. Our Marines are bad. Bad to the bone. They get out there and do it right. They strive for the best and do their best. They do the best and they are the best. No doubt in my mind, U.S. Marines get it in. And that's what's up. They aren't just a flex, they're the real deal.
Dear Maj. I went from never could get past 14 pull ups to 20 by doing the following....Practice them in sets just like lifting weights....Say: do 12, rest then 13, then rest. then 14 then rest. Do this every other day for a week. Then the next week start with 13, rest then 14, then rest, then 15. Then the next week....and the next weeks increment one pull up per set in all three sets When one gets to doing 15,16, and 17..it is nothing to get all psyched up to do 20 on a PFT.in a single set. Also, as in your video...exhale when exerting over the top of the bar. Also an over the top of the bar grip as in your video...puts the staying on the bar in one's hands not their fingers. My motivation was to beat another officer candidate who always out did me at field meets at Auburn University each Spring. Our team was from Florida (UWF) and as a Senior he did 20 pull ups as did I, he did the 80 set ups as did I, and then (using a 2nd wind half way through the 3 mile run....I out ran his ...self. EuRah James Rish fmr. 0302
I could never get past 19 but I could do 19 wide grip, narrow grip, overhand, underhand, behind or infront of head. Never hit 20. Best way to get good at pull ups is just do a lot of pull ups. Alternate your grip, it uses different muscles and will round out your strength. 1:27 I consider this a mid grip overhand, try this grip behind the head. My 8 year old daughter can do 3.
I went through Parris Island in 1956 and we wore no protective equipment when training with pugil sticks. We were dressed in boondockers, utility trousers, white t-shirt, and utility cover. No helmet. No face mask. No padding of any kind.
Maintaining a quick speed is going to help because doing them ultra slow will tire you out and you won't get a high count. As long as they are a complete movement that counts as "legit" from a testing standpoint then why do them slow?
But with this groundbreaking "secret" he will be able to grow bulky arms out of his new sculpted wing lats which will allow him to do pull ups faster than an average crossfitter doing seizure pull ups a.k.a butterfly pullups
0:37 "The biggest issue with increasing pull up count is the lack of information available" *Ya don't say*
Ironic.
there s a link to the full program in the captions
Litterally do 4-5 max effort sets a day 3 days a week and you’ll be at 20 in 3 months max (assuming you can already do at least 5-6)
In bootcamp I was only getting 14. After 3 years in the fleet I was easily getting 23. You get stronger over time.
Pullups will not make you survive artillery lol.
@@I666I Lies. If you make it to 100x3, you can literally survive anything.
@@cheesyjesus7887 if you make it to 100x3, you survive because you killed everyone else
@@HenrikSherwood Lmao
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Where in the Sam hell are the tips?
Just do the damm pullup Old 3rd Marine we never die we just fade away .
Step One: Grab Bar. Step Two: Pull-Up
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Oooooh so that's what I've been doing wrong all these years.
Wait... WHAT!?!?
INSTRUCTIONS NOT CLEAR!!! DICK STUCK IN ELEVATOR!!!
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I've really learned a lot here...............
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David Murphy full detail is in the info section. Noob
thought criminal so you think
thought criminal don't believe the propaganda
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I was a Marine. I did a 300pft many times.
I did tons of pull ups on my liberty.
One trick I used is
two days before a pft
I would do 100 pull ups.
One day before a pft I would rest and eat no food all day.
So the day of the pft I felt light as a feather
And strong as a bee.
I’m now 59 and have a pull up bar next to my bed.
On my 40th birthday I did 400 pull ups
Damn dude
Dude is a monster
Respect
Holy shit
Was a marine? You are a marine! Semper Fi
soooo how do you do more pull-ups?
description has the link to full program. it's helped my wife out a lot.
-Sgt H
+Jonathan Herrera is it free ? Lol
+rob cha -You do more pull-ups by doing pull-ups, not complicated.
+Young KvngVII yes of course! It only cost sweat and effort!
-Sgt Herrera
+Ismail Khayam when I was working on pullups, I did something different that work for me. I have done 20 pulls every pft I've done.
"The secret to doing a pull up is..."
*Dies*
Rob Cha I'm a retired marine and what helped me was pyramiding. That means do one pull do five push ups. Do two pull ups do five push ups. Do three pull ups do five push ups and so forth till you get to ten pull ups.
like.. diamond pushups or regular pushups.
just wondering, and i'm gonna read this Major's guide, i've never fucking figured out the 'use your back' pullups although I hear you can do much more than bicep pullups, but everytime I try it, I always fail(and have no idea how the form works)
+quicklode incorporate as many forward grip as you can do (if it's zero then start with a hang) and do the rest of your pull-ups reverse grip. Once you can do 5 forward grip pull-ups train those exclusively.
Pyramids got me from 17 to 28. I'm shooting for 30-35 now.
g496r500t got it, thank you so much!
what do you mean by pyramids?
I seem to remember, as a teen, not being able to do any. I started in 8th grade with barely one, then every day on the bar, I got stronger and stronger. 20 took about
3 moths and in 10th grade my max was 33. In the corps, I always got 20. Now 4 decades later, I can still do about 12, sometimes struggle and do 15 but it takes a
daily regimen of alternating a single max set, with multiple sets at half-max, if memory serves me right. For example if one's max is 12, do 5 or 6 sets of 1/2 max or
6, rest a day, do a max set, rest and repeat. I am starting this process again, at 66, to try to get my old 20+ max.
I'm starting over at 52. I've had some injuries pull me away but my daughter, 8 has started challenging me. She's up to 3. She pedals like a bicycle, it's funny as hell.
Going from 0 to 20 in 3 months???? That’s insane! Definitely an anomaly…
dafuq are the tips??
lol... it's in the the description.
For anyone wondering how to do more pull-ups or what the program is, there’s a link in the description that gives a lot of detailed advice! Good luck Marines, and anyone else who needs it!
thank you. i was wondering.
I went to the link. It is a pdf that is difficult to understand. The whole point of UA-cam is to explain things with video. Also, a video would have been easier to make than that complex pdf.
@@jakemccoy right this is stupid
So, what's the secret to pull ups? They talked around it but never said.
Michael Wong
Exactly.
MC bs.
Marine veteran.
Michael Wong its a link in the description
@@1FaithHopeandLove it literally says "If you want to see the program download the link"
the secret is love
Eat three green crayons wait 4 minutes and eat ONE blue crayon
The main secret is to hook your thumbs over the bar so your forearms don't get fatigued from gripping the bar. Second secret is to lean back and engage your entire back so it becomes almost a rowing motion. If you pull straight up, you are relying only on arm, shoulders, and lat muscles.
amen
Any one still watching this and can’t figure it out...this is how I went from 15-30 pull ups in 6 months while deployed: do 5 max sets a day, every day. Even if you’re sore and can only do 3, max out 5 times a day. Getting better at pull ups is all about constantly signaling your body.
Thank you because this wasn’t really helpful for me
Yes it does take determination you gotta want to do them.
How much rest between sets? Or can they be spaced out as much as I like?
Since you’re training for performance, take as much rest as you need, though i doubt this will ever be more than 2-3 minutes
I can do zero. After this video, I can still do zero.
That means you're doing three times the number you were previously able to accomplish. (Or is that five times?) Regardless, congratulations. Keep up the good work.
How old are u ? I’m 59 and can do 10
@@PInk77W1prove it.
So what is the secret?
+PastorMikeUSMC you don't pull with your arms you rotate your back and shoulders
Exactly right
Its a secret ....
the secret is the narines
IronMikeUSMC hey psst its using your arms.
To be honest, the secret is to literally just doing more pull-ups. Assistance exercises like rows and bicep curls could help out with grip strength and things like that but honestly if you work on doing pull-ups every other day you'll get very good at them very quickly. Sometimes you can change up how many you do, for instance...Monday: 3 sets to complete failure (treat every set like it is the day of your PFT, rest about 1.5-2 minutes in between sets) Wednesday: Take the number you did from the first set yesterday (so your max pull-ups at full strength) and then cut it in half. Do continuous sets until you can't reach that number anymore and then do one last burnout set. Example: my best right now is 16, I would do sets of 8 until I couldn't hit 8 anymore, and obviously resting in between sets. Friday: Change up grips (wide, normal, neutral, chin-ups), and maybe throw in some negatives if you'd like and have fun with it. Case and point just doing more pull-ups will help you the most.
Dan Walsh that's actually what we wanted to learn from thus video but thanks.
You're 100% right. A lot of folks try to do other exercises to build up the strength to do pull ups but the best way to do pull ups is to simply hang on the bar for any duration of time and attempt to pull up. If you want to do something other than hanging off the bar you should try hanging up on the bar and doing negatives. Don't waste time doing anything else and you'll find yourself doing a lot more pull ups.
The only problem is that trying to do pull ups is quite boring. I think a lot of folks end up trying to do something else then find they still can't do pull ups despite that. So the best way I find is that you should try to do pull ups all day long. Get a bar and just try to do a pull up here and there or just hang on the bar for a little and do something else. The idea is the bar will build up all the proper strength to do an exercise.
All Marines should be trained in basic gym and weight lifting classes. There is no secret to pull ups other than putting time in the gym. I never touched a pull up bar to train for pull ups until I reached a consistent max of 23.
Yes, you are right. Best way to do pull-ups is to do it every day. When we do something regularly, it becomes a habit. Perfection will Automatically comes in when we do it regularly. I did my first chin-up and pull-ups without any assistance. I did 5 for both. It's better to do smaller reps for beginners.For example, one should do 2 reps/6 sets and gradually increase the reps/sets.
"I haven't met anyone I haven't been able to help"
Challenge accepted
I got good at pull-ups by doing the flex am hang for as long as I could hold it. After a few weeks I could do about 3 but after a few months I got up to 10. Technique is important and so is confidence but practice is key.
If you can do 5 pull ups, start doing dropsets with an assistance band until you can do 10 reps unassisted. After that, start doing weighted pull ups with 10-20 pounds until you can do 5 sets of 5. Then do drop sets going from wheighted straight to assisted.
Minimum pull ups for Marines should be like 10. Not that 2 or 3 bullshit they got now.
2 or 3? So you don't know the actual number? So I take it you're not actually a Marine, but you're trying to make rules, typical.
+IncognegroFidelity -The minimum is 3. Which is too low.
IncognegroFidelity I don't remember. I have not done pull ups for the Marines in a while. But I sure as hell was not doing anywhere near the minimum which is way to low.
+Anthony Batista -You are correct, 3 is way too low! Should be at least 5-6.
edwardpf123 For the Marines I think it should be no less than 10. Army should be 5-6 in my opinion.
I read the guide in the description. The main thing I think its missing is "plateauing". That is, when a training program no longer benefits a person and only maintains. When I was trying to increase my pull-up count, there came a point where just doing pullups regularly throughout the day, did nothing for me. That was around the 16-18 pullup mark for me. For awhile I thought I was overtraining or something, so I spread all my pull-up related workouts to only 2-3 times per week. That did nothing for me. I tried challenges like "every minute on the minute" and doing max sets every hour every other day. Nothing. The fastest way I found personally to fix that was to add weight (ie. a backpack) with a few pounds of gear in it and do max sets with that for a couple weeks, and then go back to doing bodyweight sets. Easily gained 5-6 pullups added to my max set. I believe that is the secret to pullups.
progressive overload
My way of training to do more pull-ups is to do weighted pull-ups. I have seen a big growth in the number of pull-ups I can do without the weights now compared to when I wasn't using the weights
I accidentally did this program last summer. Every time I cussed I made myself do 3 pullups (around a dozen to 20 times a day). In about 3 weeks I went from doing 4 or 5 pullups to 9. Also, ran a mile per every cig a day (4-6). Took my run time down about 2 min as well in 3 weeks. I would split the mileage in between HIIT and distance.
That's awesome!! Good for you!!
mrsglittermepink So yo cuss like a sailor and smoke like a chimney. Nice.
A smoking potty-mouth. My kinda gal.
helped a Marine go for 12 to 20 in 5 weeks doing the Armstrong pullup program. I went from 22 to 27 in 5 weeks.
I flatlined my pullup count at 15, but I added weights to a backpack and wore it while doing them. Now I can do loads more. If you do this, be careful not to screw up your back.
I use a backpack full of books for pushups, but for pullups I don't really want weight hanging on my traps...I shouldn't of try it though...may not actually be a problem
soooo you're not going to tell us okay. i mean i can already do 20 so it doesn't matter.
Good for you no one cares
I care
+Shreegol Of Shire no u dont...
uncle grandpa I can't do one
They left a link in the description
Google the Armstrong pull up program. I used this to more than double my pull ups when I was in. This program allows you the freedom to start wherever. Its amazing.
Tons of information with this one. Here's a crayon for you
The biggest problem people have with pull-ups is that they're too fat! Pull-ups start in the kitchen. Get off the carbs, up the protein. I lost 20lb in a couple of months. Can now do pull-ups. Not many but at 50 years old, I'm doing more than I ever managed as a kid.
A better title would be "THIS VIDEO IS A LIE AND WASTES YOUR TIME AND SHOWS YOU NOTHING ABOUT HOW TO DO A FREAKING PULL UP"
The whole video is about the female Major being the bestest ever.
The video doesn’t tell you the technique - what good is it?
Thank you for your time and effort in truly helping those in need of a different mind set. It is true when You put Mind over matter, Accomplishments are formed.
I appreciate Your Service Ma'am.
For such a famous and high ranking Marine... She was very welcoming. I met her last Thursday at a pull-up clinic and she was perhaps one of the friendliest people I've ever met. If she EVER is in your area, go to her, she's super approachable.
"There's not really a lot of information about how to do a pull up."
Google, one of the single greatest repositories for collected human knowledge in existence: *am I a joke to you?*
For anyone wanting to do more I recommend activating your back when doing your pull ups and make sure you’re bringing chest to the bar and not letting your shoulders and neck crunch with it
Maj. Misty Posey looks like a female version of Chesty Puller. Rah
+Josh Qui OMG the tales are true,
+Josh Qui Semper!
+Town of Oyster Bay Corruption Exposed Fi
Bravo Prescott oh my God I'm in stitches!
The secret is still safe four years later.
You need the right tools yeh. Something above your head to grab onto. Practice ladies. pull your body up, literally. Build those muscles. Thats all it takes.
One additional compliment to both pull ups and chin ups (palms facing away, palms facing inward, respectively) is at the end of both, half way up, to a greater extent half way down, STOP, HOLD.............. Lock your arms in a 90 degree position and HOLD. Hold for as long as you realistically can and then proceed to (try to) go up one last time, or, if you are on the down motion, after the hold, let yourself down fully. This is, at that point, a pure ISOMETRIC and isometric is beyond critically important toward increasing strength. Incorporate isometric in any number of exercise.
Also with pull ups and chin ups, many go too fast. While a quick upward movement is a good thing at times with a slow downward movement, try sets where you are going up slowly and down even slower. A "simple" set of "only" ten - SLOWLY executed will be a real eye opener for many who heretofore like to jackrabbit up and down as quick as possible and by same achieving a higher numerical.
Excellent job Major! Thank you for solving this for all Marines and for helping to silence those naysayers that are still in the dark ages about the capabilities of Women Marines. OORAH M'am! - GySgt USMC ret.
The capabilities of women Marines...Do NOT include being able to best Russian, Chinese, Syrian, Iraqi, etc., males in hand-to-hand combat. The capabilities of women Marines do NOT include not bleeding out of their genitals and cramping painfully once a month while on long patrols. The capabilities of women Marines no NOT include having less body-fat and more testosterone-induced muscular hypertrophy, resulting in naturally higher muscular strength and development. I could literally type paragraphs, but it's sad that we live in a day when people are blind to the fact that men have evolved to be bigger, stronger, faster, more explosive, more capable of violence, and more able to endure long-term physical hardship, than women. You can indulge in your GI Jane fantasies until kingdom come, but you can't change evolution no matter how much you sulk and whine. When women Marines are getting their necks snapped in close combat, when women Marines are being raped to death by subhuman ISIS fighters, when women Marines slowing down and reducing the overall capability of the entire unit, and getting male Marines killed as a result, hopefully you'll reconsider. Say what you will about the Israelis, but their military is honed to protect a small nation in a hostile land, and they withdrew females from combat units after a trial period because it DID. NOT. WORK. They've integrated women into the air forces, MPs, intelligence, and a myriad of other occupations with great success, but direct ground combat is no place for women. Period.
All of your points are interesting, but none of them are germane to the video on which I commented. I thought the video was about PT? If I were to expand on it I'd say that those that believe in gender-norming are the ones to whom I'm addressing. As well as those who still, for reasons I can't fathom, want to put Women Marines into some sort of box. When I first went in women had just started having the same uniforms as the men (though they were only issued 2 sets of cammies). The mile and a half PT run was still relatively new, and they women Marines didn't fire the rifle at all! When those things were changed, there was an uproar that "women won't be able to get into the firing positions" and "they will be taking training time away from the men" and most egregious, "the are genetically incapable of firing better than low marksman!" All of which were just wrong. That said, At which point did my comments even intimate comparisons between female and male Marines, or women in ground combat, or the biological differences between men and women? Talk about over reach and only being able to see through the prism of one's ideology. Regardless of the aforementioned issues, bringing the PFT into synch with the current male standard is a good thing for the Corps. And female Marines doing pull ups is the first, and necessary step to accomplishing that goal.
I salute you.
You sir nailed it!
females have no place in the beloved corps. Political Correctness will be the death of America
Sergeant Major Hendges is my ROTC instructor now and this is exactly how he is in class
I need the secret to push ups
A little late but start doing as many as possible, then the next day do a set of your max minus 3, then your max, then your max plus 3, then your max minus one. Do this every other day with about 1 to 5 minutes of rest as needed between sets, the less the better. Every two weeks do a day where you just do as many as possible until you physically cant, then modify your routine using that as your max.
i honer you all very much my husband was in the marines27 years it was rough but he passed away at 45 a massive heart attack .god bless you men an woman
I just watched this video and now I can do 236 pull ups at 1 time
Very informative video- What would I do with out you guys!! : ]
Exactly, the detailed and specific information in this video (!?) was a big help.
The link is in the video description 😂
20 pull ups are Maj. Poses. When told to mount the bar and start doing your PFT. I placed 80% of my body weight on dominant side. Per se 12 or 14 reps (130 lbs.) Then ease your weight to less dominant steadily six more reps to get 20. Hope this advice helps to all Marines. Ooh Rah!
“The secret”..... that’s still a secret to us all! Lol 😂
is because the information is USMC classified.
Instructions unclear, I did push ups
Where do you start if you can't do any at all?
Dannie Morgan Start lifting. Work a main body part each day, incorporate an ab workout at the end of each workout to develop your core. As you build muscles throughout your body attempt a single pull up each day. After you get one. Try for two, then three and so on.
Dannie Morgan just keep trying. also start deadlifting and 1 arm rows.
Don't be female is step 1.
Negative vertical push ups is one way of starting. Also, horizontal rows (sometimes called Australian pull ups) and incrementally decrease the angle towards vertical. Also, learning the kip pull up technique allows you to develop the feel of vertical movement. Once you can do three, then pyramiding (perform 1 pull up, then rest, perform 2 pull ups then rest, etc. and then back down after you reach your target number) a la the Navy Seal and the USMC Workouts, will help you develop strength.
If u can't do pull-ups start with building arms with push-ups
Those techniques really helped me out I went from 10 pull ups to 22
it works my starting pull up count was 50 now I have doubled it to100 hoorah
No you didnt
+Proud Infidel (Proudinfidel1) what ever your words mean nothing to me
+Dan Folk
Did you serve in the army?
+Manny Alvarado no I'm 15 years of age but I want to join the MarineCorps when I am 20 or so
+Dan Folk
By the time your 20, you might be done with going to college and having a bachelor degree, you can join as a officer then.
But what's the secret? Looked like there's technique to use your chest and back muscles, not only your shoulders.
I didn't see one properly executed pull-up, or are the standards going to be "adjusted" [lowered] again.
What you are talking about, is the arm being so far forward right? (Like a reverse grip chin up rather than a pull-up) That definitely makes it easier, the arm more to the side uses more back, less bicep. (If I want to do biceps.........I'll finish up with chin-ups or do some curls.......always do the pronated grip first)
they dont use a good lower body form , its almost like they are kipping
For 18 of my 22 years in the Corps male Marines were allowed to use the kip on PFTs. I changed over to dead-hang at a PFT a few years before the change happened, but it took me about a year to regain the 8 pull ups I lost to get back up to 20. I used the Navy Seal workout at the time. It took longer, as it's a progressive workout, but the result is that even having been retired going on 16 years I can STILL do 20 pull ups. Anyway, a way to transition female Marines to the male standard would've been to allow them to kip pull ups. That would've demystified the action to them and their muscles. Then, a progression that required at least 3 dead-hang pull ups within all of their pull ups, and finally removing the kip. Use the kip would also immediately negate the issue of upper body strength differences and allowed an immediate change to the standard once the technique was acquired.
one thing that helped me was to think more chest to bar rather then trying to get ur chin to bar ...also helps use more of your back muscles rather then biceps in the pull-up ...so think to urself chest up when hanging ...this contracts your back and shoulders lifting ur chest up, then as you begin to bring ur chest to the bar your back is already activated in pulling urself up rather then relying on your biceps to pull most of your weight ...it really helps. Remember Pull-up is a Back Focused Exercise with wider grip, while Chin-up is a Bicep Focused Exercise with narrow grip.
Before you write a comment, the program is on the description.
So what are the tips?
Yeah it's called hard work
Major Posey- would love to see a UA-cam demo video where you explain the training program that is laid out in the documents and then have people demonstrate each of the moves for us. Thanks!
How to do pull-ups - do more fuckin pull-ups
So the secret is…..
If you guys want the steps you have to look in the description
So the Marines assigned her to teach other Marines how to do pull-ups incorrectly?
Look at the 0:46 - 0:49 range. Your legs should not come forward like that, which gives you momentum of the leg mass going upwards to assist, cheating the upper body muscles from developing.
Dude, exactly! Why is no one caring or noticing, not a single pull-up was regulation.
THERE"S a LINK IN THE DESCRIPTION!
+Rick i Shh, let them complain.
She didn't give any instructional information about doing pullups.
I want to be a Marine sniper like my dad
you need to be shooting probably at least once a week then.
i am i got 4 meddles at
camp for shooting
+Zachery Lieske at camp that's cute
that's a start. you need to get out in the field and shoot too though. you can only get so good at camp shooting at paper.
whats the requirements
Props to Missy. I love this story!
I am 12 and I can go up to 7 pull-ups.I think I am pretty good for my age
Nobbbelzxxtv no u cant funny how u show off on yt comments😂😂😂
Nobbbelzxxtv vid or it didn't happen
hustler 18 I am 12 too,but I can do 18 :)
That's nothing I'm fourteen and I can do nine sorry meant none
I'm 13 and for wrestling we have the do at least 30 pull-ups a day
Outstanding Thank You all for serving!
tactical mascara
😂😂
I am 112 and i am doing 6 to 7 to rarely 10. The best thing to increase it i think its running. Because it strenghtens all of your muscles.
is that weight or height(no way it's age, right?)
Sooo thx video for letting me know of HER program. Title is very misleading.
Check description
Hey, how 'bout you actually mention the tips.... A big one is just doing them regularly where you develop grip strength. Another is to engage your core, she's doing that when she's caught talking about the legs being brought forward. I'm a Marine from the '80's - back then I was maybe able to knock out 14, today at 55 I can do 20+
One thing I stared doing was alternate grip, so, 10 overhand pull-ups, then alternating with each hand facing different directions each way, so two more sets of ten, then 10 chin-ups with palms facing you. So that's a total of 40 - Do that every day, at least once a day for two weeks, more than once a day if you can find the time - After a couple weeks give standard pull-ups a shot and you'll really surprise yourself
I feel bad for anyone who can't do a single pull-up.
Demetrius pearson me
dont stop belive in!!!! XD
Me
There not easy to do
I couldnt do 1 the first time I tried. Now I can do about 10 in a minute. But it took alot of time to get to that point....
I went from 0 to 11 in 5 months 20 sounds great so hope it helps
I have worked with some tough Lady Marines, keep up the great work!
I agree, it doesn't take a year to get to 20 pull ups. If you do one every two weeks, you'll finish with almost 3 months to spare.
I read her stuff, it's pretty much the same advice one would get doing a simple google search. But honestly, just keep doing pull ups; most marines can lift their own body weight.
Other than the basic advice of, "do negatives, do pyramids, get someone to assist you..." If gym access is available to you, warm up with some lat pull downs to activate those lats, work on scapular retractio, mind muscle connection, and all that stuff.
Lat pull downs aren't a 100% perfect substitute for an actual pull up, but it is pretty close.
For everyone saying the video didnt help, the entire program is downloadable as a pdf from the link in the description.
Never saw her prove she could do 20 for her to be qualified but if she can and is teaching Marines and others to do more that's great. 👍
If you are reading this and legitimately looking for advice then know this: there is no secret.
There are no tricks. There are no tips.
This sentiment is true for nearly all skills in life. If you want to get better at pull ups. Do as many as you can as often as you can. If you cannot do any use a resistance band or machine. That’s it.
Source: former Sgt and used to be able to do 25 clean ones in my boots
Brilliant programme! Thank you for your work.
After reading the Major’s written plan I can see how this is an excellent strategy to increase pull up repetitions.
I'm telling you U.S. Marines deserve it. U.S. Marines are tough, they look good, clean, strong, and bad. Our Marines are bad. Bad to the bone. They get out there and do it right. They strive for the best and do their best. They do the best and they are the best. No doubt in my mind, U.S. Marines get it in. And that's what's up. They aren't just a flex, they're the real deal.
The "SECRET" To Doing More Pull Ups Is To Do Pull Ups!! One For Chesty!! One For Dan Daly!! One For The Commandant!! One For The Corps!! Semper Fi!!
Something they say over at AthleanX is to do hammer curls because they train a muscle in your forearms that is apparently essential to doing pull ups.
Gotta give youtube props for one thing, making the don't recommend channel button...
Dear Maj. I went from never could get past 14 pull ups to 20 by doing the following....Practice them in sets just like lifting
weights....Say: do 12, rest then 13, then rest. then 14 then rest. Do this every other day for a week.
Then the next week start with 13, rest then 14, then rest, then 15. Then the next week....and the next weeks increment one
pull up per set in all three sets When one gets to doing 15,16, and 17..it is nothing to get all psyched up to do 20 on a PFT.in a single set. Also, as in your video...exhale when exerting over the top of the bar. Also an over the top of the bar grip as in
your video...puts the staying on the bar in one's hands not their fingers. My motivation was to beat another officer candidate
who always out did me at field meets at Auburn University each Spring. Our team was from Florida (UWF) and as a Senior he did 20 pull ups as did I, he did
the 80 set ups as did I, and then (using a 2nd wind half way through the 3 mile run....I out ran his ...self. EuRah James Rish fmr. 0302
Thanks im losing a hundred pounds before I enlist in October 2022 I'm 26 yrs old joining the Marines I to the gym every day I feel amazing right now
I could never get past 19 but I could do 19 wide grip, narrow grip, overhand, underhand, behind or infront of head. Never hit 20. Best way to get good at pull ups is just do a lot of pull ups.
Alternate your grip, it uses different muscles and will round out your strength. 1:27 I consider this a mid grip overhand, try this grip behind the head.
My 8 year old daughter can do 3.
I went through Parris Island in 1956 and we wore no protective equipment when training with pugil sticks. We were dressed in boondockers, utility trousers, white t-shirt, and utility cover. No helmet. No face mask. No padding of any kind.
I guess I have to join the Marines to find out the secret.
Thx I am in the Young Marines this will really help me
Maintaining a quick speed is going to help because doing them ultra slow will tire you out and you won't get a high count. As long as they are a complete movement that counts as "legit" from a testing standpoint then why do them slow?
I’ve used this program to go from 20 pullups to 100. Great stuff.
Thx for the video, I won first and fitness at my school for pull ups
0:34
Dude with no arms: *Allow Me To Introduce Myself*
But with this groundbreaking "secret" he will be able to grow bulky arms out of his new sculpted wing lats which will allow him to do pull ups faster than an average crossfitter doing seizure pull ups a.k.a butterfly pullups
she didnt really tell us the secret to it, she just told us about the person who possibly knows the secret
Before video : 12 pullups
After video: -23 pullups, 63 crunches, 4hr 48min 7sec run time
Thanks for the tip