So a band assisted pull-up is a fantastic upper-body strength training exercise
for people who cannot perform pull ups yet, or for maybe someone who can but
they want to work on getting a little bit more volume. For example, if you could
only perform one or two pull ups but you wanted to work on it, you could use a
band and possibly get three, four, five, six, so you can get more practice with
pull ups. Now Amanda has been doing pull-ups for a long time, she has a
strong athletic background, she can do them unassisted at this point in her
pregnancy, however she might use a band again to be able to get a few more reps.
So a couple things to keep in mind, to pull up unassisted or not, it's a really
intense core exercise. You'll see what she does is she's trying to stabilize her
body a lot. We like to use the "hands-free mama" rule with this exercise. If when
you're doing the exercise you feel like you need to pull in or support your
tummy at all, it's probably time for you to cut that exercise out. You should be
able to support yourself without having to use your hands. The other thing: if you're
feeling a lot of downward pressure on the pelvic floor then it's time to cut this
exercise as well, this isn't for you. The band that we're using here is about a
medium band, it's a purple band. If at this point in your pregnancy you're
needing to use a band that's any stronger than that, then again, these
probably aren't for you at this stage. So there's a couple things you can do, you
can put your knee in the band or you can put your foot in the band. Amanda's going
to demonstrate by putting her knee in the band. Now this is going to offer less
support than the foot because the band isn't stretched as far and so it's just
not quite as supportive. Now there's a couple different grips you can use, you
can use the regular overhand - which is palms facing away from the body - you can
use the neutral grip - which is palms facing each other - and then you can use
the chin up grip - which is the palms facing towards the body. We're going to
do the neutral grip, which is palms facing one another. Just a little bit
more joint friendly at this point in pregnancy, the wrists, elbows and the
shoulders will stay a little bit happier and healthier. So she's going to
demonstrate now with the knee in the band, she's going to let herself hang and
then she's going to pull herself up to the top and then she does this movement
with her shoulder blade, bringing her shoulder blades back and
down at the top. Another one for us, good, nice and strong, perfect, one more. Pull
ourselves up, perfect, and you can relax for a second Amanda. So you can see at
the top she's really thinking shoulder blades back and down
like they're being pulled into her back pockets, elbows stay close to the body,
nice proud chest at the top. If she wanted a little bit more support she could put
her foot in the band. And generally you want to grab kind of low on the band and
pull it down, stick it right in the middle of your foot and then you can
straighten that foot out, good, and get some tension on the band, perfect, she's
going to grab the bar with the palms facing one another and pull
herself up, good. And at first the tendency is going to be for the body to
swing out a little bit because the band's giving a lot of support, but she's
using her core to stabilize really hard here, one more, great and you can relax.
And that's how you do a band assisted pull-up.





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