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Too tall and too heavy?
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Briwi, thanks… you are so right, the gym cannot do what the pole does. I have been working there on doing dead hang off a bar, just to do extra grip strengthening. Both arms and one arm. Then different grip machine etc… and something non-pole specific, I work on my booty to get it round and perky (as with age, the gravity does horrible things, haha). Now it is working against me because I have to drag that booty around the pole 🙂 but that’s a good problem 👠Thanks for sharing your story!
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It’s great to train your grip in various ways but you’ll probably also feel faster progress if you work on strengthening your lats and shoulders working towards being able to do pull ups. If you can’t do one pull up try starting out with negatives. If you can’t do one negative pull up try chin ups, and if you can’t do those focus on being able to do horiztontal rows and pushups with good form for 3 sets of 10 reps.
The body weight fitness community on reddit is a really good source of info for stuff like this.
And of course there’s your core strength to work on too!
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Wibberoo, thanks! I can now do two pull-ups (the easier way, with palms facing me). I was not able to do any a few weeks ago. Feeling like my pole-strength is getting better. Now I need to start working on the pull-ups with palms facing away. 🙂
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