The human body is fascinating.

Our muscles can produce more force in the eccentric phase of a movement than they can in the eccentric or isometric phase.

This means that in the lowering phase of a pull-up, our muscles can produce more force compared to when we are going up.

This leads to 3 incredibly useful tools:

Negative reps allow us to get stronger without adding external weight.
This method is crucial to get our first unassisted pull-up.
We can use this strategy to our advantage once we have unlocked the first unassisted pull-up to break through a strength plateau.

From now on, instead of dropping straight from the top after you performed your last rep, lower yourself as slowly as possible.

Stacking these slow reps (5+ seconds) might be the missing key to breaking through the platform you’re currently stuck on.

Try this strategy and let me know how it goes

Read you next time

TC

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Should you do 100 push-ups every day?