Several years ago, a client of mine asked me if I’d ever seen anyone do a one arm pull-up. I stood for a moment in silent contemplation, then lifted one hand, wrapped it around my opposite wrist and said, “ya mean like this?” “No,” he said, “without the other hand assisting at all.” I told [...]
I get lots of emails from people who’ve gone stagnant on their pull-ups asking for my advice on how to improve. The only way to progress at pull-ups (or anything for that matter) is consistent practice. There has never been another way and there never will be. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the [...]
Last month, my brother Danny and I finally finished building his backyard pull-up bar. It wound up being a bigger project than we originally envisioned, but in the end, Danny was left with an amazing home gym. I recently got to work out on the backyard bar during a visit to Danny’s house in Brooklyn. [...]
Any red-blooded man who’s walked beneath scaffolding has no doubt been tempted to jump up, grab a bar and go for it. Those things are practically begging to be swung around on, hung from or climbed. One of the only things I dislike about life in NYC is all the construction, but every cloud has [...]
Editors note: This is a guest post by personal trainer Danny Kavadlo. There are many paths you can take when putting together a home gym. Throughout my life, I’ve owned free weights, benches, push-up bars, and a pull-up bar mounted in a doorframe. However, as we progress in fitness and life, our goals change and [...]
