Very useful video. Thanks for uploading. When I was young in the Corps, I used to be able to do 20+ without really thinking about it. Completely different story now that I'm 57, I can only get 14-16 on a good day and I've been training for the last two years to even get there. Hoping to be able to do 20 again before I hit 60. ***UPDATE*** I turned 58 a couple of weeks ago (9/6/2022). I can do 21 now. Way ahead of schedule. Thanks for the tips. 👍
do the max amount of pull ups you can the wait an hour or so then do it again, or let’s say you want to do 20 pull ups, whenever you leave your door do 1 or 2 there so it adds up to 20 at the end of the fay
Great content for building new leaders, a bit of history, way back when I was in, (have been out for 40 years now) the single most effective way to get promoted and or be able to go to schools, was to be a PT Stud! With a consistent 300+ PT score you could be mediocre in so many other areas. My Platoon disliked the Pull up work out on Platoon PT days, I would take the platoon to the Horizontal ladders, and 2 times a week we spent 1 1/2 hours working to exhaustion, then move right in to pull ups, We did not understand Off time for muscles to rebuild, it was just about work! The goal was always to have a platoon that could max 40 pull-ups. And yes the old saying of Drinking to 5:00 am, and then a 6:00 am PT formation was true, and that transcended all the enlisted ranks from Top (1st Sgt) to Private no body! Great content, the Army share has changed
Been working on my pull ups almost as much as rucking in preparation for Ranger School. Have not always been the best at pull ups so really working on this. Thanks for the tips and suggestions...TRX bands are so versatile.
About 2 weeks ago I was approached by my new CO and asked if I wanted to go to ranger school in January... like 2 weeks from now. I of course said yes and have been scrounging to get everything off my packing list together. I was just about to get a rangerpack and I saw that you had uploaded this video, I watched it when it was newly posted "1 hour ago" and thought to myself. Nah I shouldn't comment, probably won't win. But my wife is pushing me to, thankfully I have her. Hoping to knock out ranger school then middle of next year go to SFRE then on to SFAS. Best wishes, thanks for all the tips.
I came across your videos a couple days ago and started watching. I applied for the KCT back in the Netherlands and your tips on how to prepare for such a lifechanging course like ranger school are really helping me getting prepared for the KCT. So thankyou!!
I was just wondering ab this. My ship date for the Marine corps got pushed waaay back. But at 210 i can pump out a good ten pull ups. I'll do a set of five pull ups on anything I can pull up on. At the end of the day I'd have don't at least 35-50 reps total
As far how to incorporate these...I usually do about 5 or 6 sets of 5 pull ups and as they become more difficult i use a band. Would it be best to do specific workouts after this, so for example the negatives after my set since im already tired? Or would this be its own workout and then after 2weeks or so check my max rep count? Thank you and appreciate the informational video.
Absolutely. Your ideas are a great way to see and document improvement. Negatives are meant to help you to reach failure and to build endurance. You’ll see tons of progress if you do negatives often.
I realize this is probably not the right section because you are working on Pull-Ups. But my son just enlisted in the army on Wednesday and is headed off to boot camp December 27th. To the point he's doing well with everything but his 5-mile run do you have a training program to help with that? MOS is airborne infantry and then he gets shipped off for ranger training. Also I was curious to know during the Land navigation course do they give you starting coordinates or do you have to come up with those on your own? He's a talented young man physically fit a 139 GT score but is straight out of high school and needs a lot of knowledge for his military training any help is much appreciated.
This program will square him away for all the physical challenges he will face at RASP: grittysoldier.com/collections/fitness-programs/products/13-week-ranger-school-fitness-program Also land of all the points will be given to have it will just be up to him to be able to find the points. If he’s a smart guy I’m sure he’ll have no issues with that. A lot of it really does come down to just being physically prepared.
I attended Airborne School in May-June 1974 and I have no idea what they’re doing these days. Anyway, in my time, the standard for being admitted to the school was 6 pull-ups. 6 pull-ups were required every day in Ground Week and then 7 in Tower Week. The standard was to pull yours chin up over the bar X# of times, starting from a dead hang and with no swaying or kicking, etc. I was certainly not The Pull-up King of Fort Benning then and I’m not The Pull-Up King of Taiwan now! Having said that, I prepped for this event by pulling my shoulders/chest to the bar, rather than just clearing it with the chin. I trained myself to the point that I could do about 10 very good pull-ups and then a few awful ones at the end (kicking, swaying, whatever it took to get over the bar). I had no problems with this event and in fact, just once a Blackhat didn’t count a pull-up (“one, two, two…”) and it was no biggie to still get my 6 or 7 that day since I’d trained for 10+.
What I do that I find useful is you do your pull ups till failure then on that last one when you know you can't pull yourself back up there u hold yourself on the bar and hold the negative as long as you can
Was in the Army for 6 years, got out, trying to join the Marines. It’s looking like a go and I can probably only do about 5 pull ups. I’ve got some work to do to max them out in a month
For ranger school and or airborne, do you only use one grip for the pull-up or can you also incorporate the chin-up grip as well if you tire out on one or the other?
Your videos have helped me as a young soldier so much. Currently training for Cert so I can eventually get my tab and go to regiment. You're a huge motivator for me.
I'm glad I saw this. Most fitnes youtubers keep cutting corners on how to do pull ups for beginners. "When shit hits the fan, Rangers Lead the way" thank you captain
Depends. At Ranger it’s pull-ups. At airborne it was chin-ups when I went (like 10 years ago). But it’s best to just be good at both versions, as they are both seen as “testable” across the force.
@@GrittySoldier, if I recall my Guide to Airborne Students booklet correctly, the “Army word” for what I did in Airborne School (May-June 1974) was something like: pull-ups with the palms facing the face. As I recall, Big Army didn’t use the terms “chin-up” and “pull-up” back then. Go figure! :)
If you're able to, can we hear more female perspectives that are in the army, I'm a female hoping to join soon. Super intimidated seeing how awesome the men are
Dan, I'm one of the guys just trying to get my ass in shape. I'm 47, have lost 115+lbs in the last year and am focused entierly on training for ranger school, though I will never have the opportunity to enlist or attend. Your motivational attitude and practical instruction are fucking awesome and have become a regular set of content to guide my personal physical and mental growth. THANK YOU!! Well fucking played. I'm so grateful for the time and effort you have taken to bring us your experience and wisdom. Much love coming your way my friend!! BTW, I challenge you to a 12 mile ruck with me in the Sierra Nevada mountains!!! Can you take it?!? Shit ain't Ft. Benning flat. Not an easy step out here:)
Very useful video. Thanks for uploading. When I was young in the Corps, I used to be able to do 20+ without really thinking about it. Completely different story now that I'm 57, I can only get 14-16 on a good day and I've been training for the last two years to even get there. Hoping to be able to do 20 again before I hit 60.
***UPDATE*** I turned 58 a couple of weeks ago (9/6/2022). I can do 21 now. Way ahead of schedule. Thanks for the tips. 👍
do the max amount of pull ups you can the wait an hour or so then do it again, or let’s say you want to do 20 pull ups, whenever you leave your door do 1 or 2 there so it adds up to 20 at the end of the fay
Gritty, have you ever wanted to or have you attended SFAS? Would love to hear your experience and take aways from it
I’m curious, I’ve heard you can use both grips when doing pull-ups in ranger school, is that true or was I just fed bs?
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Pull ups are like running. Want to be a better runner; run more. God bless you sir thank you for your service 🙏🏽🇺🇸
Great content for building new leaders, a bit of history, way back when I was in, (have been out for 40 years now) the single most effective way to get promoted and or be able to go to schools, was to be a PT Stud! With a consistent 300+ PT score you could be mediocre in so many other areas. My Platoon disliked the Pull up work out on Platoon PT days, I would take the platoon to the Horizontal ladders, and 2 times a week we spent 1 1/2 hours working to exhaustion, then move right in to pull ups, We did not understand Off time for muscles to rebuild, it was just about work! The goal was always to have a platoon that could max 40 pull-ups. And yes the old saying of Drinking to 5:00 am, and then a 6:00 am PT formation was true, and that transcended all the enlisted ranks from Top (1st Sgt) to Private no body! Great content, the Army share has changed
I can knock out 10 pull-ups fairly easy, do pull ups to warm up before every workout. I’d like to be able to get 15-20 with minimal effort
Been working on my pull ups almost as much as rucking in preparation for Ranger School. Have not always been the best at pull ups so really working on this. Thanks for the tips and suggestions...TRX bands are so versatile.
Keep it up! 👍
About 2 weeks ago I was approached by my new CO and asked if I wanted to go to ranger school in January... like 2 weeks from now. I of course said yes and have been scrounging to get everything off my packing list together. I was just about to get a rangerpack and I saw that you had uploaded this video, I watched it when it was newly posted "1 hour ago" and thought to myself. Nah I shouldn't comment, probably won't win. But my wife is pushing me to, thankfully I have her. Hoping to knock out ranger school then middle of next year go to SFRE then on to SFAS. Best wishes, thanks for all the tips.
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I came across your videos a couple days ago and started watching. I applied for the KCT back in the Netherlands and your tips on how to prepare for such a lifechanging course like ranger school are really helping me getting prepared for the KCT. So thankyou!!
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Appreciate the info Im about to join in a few months, already got the background checks started !
Build the body, build the mind.
On point 👆
I learned how to do 10 pull ups in 2 weeks. Is it Good or Bad?
I saw your video and your form is really bad
Good Job Man 💪
I like how he mentions everyone but the Marines 🤪 the branch where everyone gets tested starting in bootcamp
Thank you for this channels. I'm 18 and still young and want to get better before I ship.
8:12 That's an interesting variant, never saw that one before. Thanks for sharing!
I was just wondering ab this. My ship date for the Marine corps got pushed waaay back. But at 210 i can pump out a good ten pull ups. I'll do a set of five pull ups on anything I can pull up on. At the end of the day I'd have don't at least 35-50 reps total
As far how to incorporate these...I usually do about 5 or 6 sets of 5 pull ups and as they become more difficult i use a band. Would it be best to do specific workouts after this, so for example the negatives after my set since im already tired? Or would this be its own workout and then after 2weeks or so check my max rep count? Thank you and appreciate the informational video.
Absolutely. Your ideas are a great way to see and document improvement. Negatives are meant to help you to reach failure and to build endurance. You’ll see tons of progress if you do negatives often.
Pull-ups work your lower traps lats and arm muscles and core bent over rows are great for it
How to get better at pullups?
Do pullups.
I realize this is probably not the right section because you are working on Pull-Ups. But my son just enlisted in the army on Wednesday and is headed off to boot camp December 27th. To the point he's doing well with everything but his 5-mile run do you have a training program to help with that? MOS is airborne infantry and then he gets shipped off for ranger training. Also I was curious to know during the Land navigation course do they give you starting coordinates or do you have to come up with those on your own? He's a talented young man physically fit a 139 GT score but is straight out of high school and needs a lot of knowledge for his military training any help is much appreciated.
This program will square him away for all the physical challenges he will face at RASP: grittysoldier.com/collections/fitness-programs/products/13-week-ranger-school-fitness-program
Also land of all the points will be given to have it will just be up to him to be able to find the points. If he’s a smart guy I’m sure he’ll have no issues with that. A lot of it really does come down to just being physically prepared.
How many times a week to train pullups?
Just wish I had weight station like that just bc the gym gets too crowded with bench warms
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Great video Sir! I'm looking to increase my reps so this really helps.
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Yes Sir 💯
I attended Airborne School in May-June 1974 and I have no idea what they’re doing these days. Anyway, in my time, the standard for being admitted to the school was 6 pull-ups. 6 pull-ups were required every day in Ground Week and then 7 in Tower Week. The standard was to pull yours chin up over the bar X# of times, starting from a dead hang and with no swaying or kicking, etc. I was certainly not The Pull-up King of Fort Benning then and I’m not The Pull-Up King of Taiwan now! Having said that, I prepped for this event by pulling my shoulders/chest to the bar, rather than just clearing it with the chin. I trained myself to the point that I could do about 10 very good pull-ups and then a few awful ones at the end (kicking, swaying, whatever it took to get over the bar). I had no problems with this event and in fact, just once a Blackhat didn’t count a pull-up (“one, two, two…”) and it was no biggie to still get my 6 or 7 that day since I’d trained for 10+.
What I do that I find useful is you do your pull ups till failure then on that last one when you know you can't pull yourself back up there u hold yourself on the bar and hold the negative as long as you can
Was in the Army for 6 years, got out, trying to join the Marines. It’s looking like a go and I can probably only do about 5 pull ups. I’ve got some work to do to max them out in a month
For ranger school and or airborne, do you only use one grip for the pull-up or can you also incorporate the chin-up grip as well if you tire out on one or the other?
Suprised you didn't mention partner assisted pull-ups, especially good to have a battle buddy and you can get more reps in.
I think the Army should include inverted rows in the APFT/ACFT
All I want to do pull ups feels amazing. Do you know what else feels amazing? Winning a ranger pack
Your videos have helped me as a young soldier so much. Currently training for Cert so I can eventually get my tab and go to regiment. You're a huge motivator for me.
Do you have any tips for dealing with split calluses? Love your videos
I'm glad I saw this. Most fitnes youtubers keep cutting corners on how to do pull ups for beginners. "When shit hits the fan, Rangers Lead the way" thank you captain
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Good fundamentals. 👍
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I want a pack sir! I hope I win!
good stuff!!!
Are you tested on chin ups or overhand pull-ups in the army? I’ve seen varying info
Depends. At Ranger it’s pull-ups. At airborne it was chin-ups when I went (like 10 years ago). But it’s best to just be good at both versions, as they are both seen as “testable” across the force.
@@GrittySoldier, if I recall my Guide to Airborne Students booklet correctly, the “Army word” for what I did in Airborne School (May-June 1974) was something like: pull-ups with the palms facing the face. As I recall, Big Army didn’t use the terms “chin-up” and “pull-up” back then. Go figure! :)
If you're able to, can we hear more female perspectives that are in the army, I'm a female hoping to join soon. Super intimidated seeing how awesome the men are
Yeah I’ll work on that, but remember you just do you. Don’t think all the dudes will be super-studs, the army is full of all sorts of people.
Dan, I'm one of the guys just trying to get my ass in shape. I'm 47, have lost 115+lbs in the last year and am focused entierly on training for ranger school, though I will never have the opportunity to enlist or attend. Your motivational attitude and practical instruction are fucking awesome and have become a regular set of content to guide my personal physical and mental growth. THANK YOU!! Well fucking played. I'm so grateful for the time and effort you have taken to bring us your experience and wisdom. Much love coming your way my friend!! BTW, I challenge you to a 12 mile ruck with me in the Sierra Nevada mountains!!! Can you take it?!? Shit ain't Ft. Benning flat. Not an easy step out here:)
Just do more pull ups. Them barbell pull ups are not going to help
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