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Just the title of this article is enough to make most people to stop reading. You may still be haunted by memories of a child, clad in school issued Gym clothes, standing in line on the cold hard wood floor in front of the pull-up bars. You wait with your heart pounding for your turn to step up to the bar while 30 other 11 year olds, also suffering from intense anxiety, watch your embarrassment and frustration of NOT getting a single pull-up.

For almost every adult on this planet, the misery of the grade school "Fitness Test" has put them off of pull-ups the rest of their life. The problem has been and still is... forcing a public display of what you're not equipped to do, and never giving you instruction on how to do it. I fall into the 99% of children that could not, and believed that, they would never do a pull-up. At the age of 52 years, I did my very first pull up ever, 30 days after that, up to 10 pull-ups, and I keep on progressing. So It's not a matter of ability, it's not an impossibility, it's a matter of training your body.

So why do battle with child memories and learn to do pull-ups? While a pull-up engages the arms and shoulders, the real driving force is your upper back and a good back makes you look great... Remember Hilary Swank on the red carpet for Million Dollar Baby... incredibly fit and looking great in a backless dress, or just look at any guy with great physique... I mean any guy... that "V" shape torso comes from the Back! Pull-up are that best way to accomplish the great back every hunky movie star has.

Step 1. Know that it takes time., The upper back is an area of your body that gets very little exercise. So it's going to take some work to get the back strong enough perform pull-ups. Step 2. Start training your back. Don't head to the pull-up bar straight away. Start with exercise bands. Exercise bands (those things that look like bungy cords with handles) come in many different tensions, so select a tension that allows you to 8 to 10 repetitions in. At 8 to 10 reps you are building the strength you need to perform a pull-up at the bar. You actually get an excellent workout by just using the bands properly, and may never invest in a pull-up bar... that's up to you.

After a couple of weeks of conditioning your body with the bands, move to the pull-up bar. Have a chair or stepladder close by, that you can use to help you boost when needed. Try to use as little assistance from the chair or ladder as you can, and still get your chin over the bar. Every time you go to do the bar make you BEST effort to get one pull-up done without assistance from the chair.

Keep in mind you DON"T do pull-ups every day. And with exercising any muscle group, you need to give your muscles a rest/recovery time to make gains. Only do pull-up 2 or 3 times a week. After first unassisted pull-up has been accomplished, you'll be amazed at how fast doing 3, 5, even 10 will come, and your "Hollywood" back will be a reality.