Fi and Sally show you a workout utilising pull up negatives (the lowering part of the lift) to help you get your first pull up or improve your pull ups. If you can do this workout as prescribed, you have enough strength to do a pull up!
Too many people are unsure about when, how and why to increase the weights they are lifting – so here’s the answer in simple terms!
So what is it like to enter your first strength competition? I interviewed my personal training client Louise, who entered Britain’s Strongest Woman 2014 for her first strength competition, to get some insights.
Sally gives you a couple of neat mind tricks that will get you to the gym or out on the pavements on those days when motivation is lacking and you feel like slacking off!
How to use halting or paused lifts to get a stronger back and a stronger pull off the floor in deadlift, clean or snatch.
Sally’s tips to overcome common concerns and objections women have to lifting heavy weights, including the belief that lifting weights will make you look big and bulky, fears about being too weak and lack of interest in ‘bodybuilding’ type exercises.
In this video, Sally explains how to use resistance bands to do pull ups and what types of band you should use.
The snatch has the reputation of being very complex and difficult to learn, but it’s not as hard as you think if it is taught well. Cue my video, which breaks the movement down into simple drills that build on each other until you are putting the whole movement together smoothly.