I started doing Convict Conditioning’s step 2 (Australian) pull-ups around April/May, I think I was doing single sets of 6-7 to start. I found this move quite hard and for the first few weeks made little progress.
I can now manage a set of 15, using best form possible and still keeping a couple reps ‘in the bank’. After the first set I can’t get as high reps, even with longish rests I can only get 12-13. I’m progressing at roughly 1 rep added each week. It’s almost September! Is it reasonable to spend so long on this step? I mean realistically it looks like I could be on this step until Feb (or later!) next year, to achieve the progression level of 30, especially for 2nd and 3rd sets.
I don’t know if I should be complaining or if I’m being impatient. I believe in this program, I can feel what a long way I’ve come even though it hasn’t really been so long since I started it, but other steps seem to be leaving pullups behind. I don’t know if that’s anything to be worried about or if I just must keep plugging away.
I’ve always had a bad tendency to train pull-ups with added weight and few reps, never high reps without weight, this might also be a factor here.
Other thing maybe worth mentioning is I had to make do in finding something to use for this exercise, the bar I’m pulling on is narrower than shoulder width.
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