One of the progression for strict pullups is “Pullups” exercise and it requires a swing motion in order to complete it.
However my setup is not allowing me to swing as I do not have enough clearance between the bar and the floor.
The ordinary pullup does not require a swing motion - you are just allowed to use physical knowledge in order to get your chin over the bar. That’s the difference to a strict pullup.
If your bar does not allow swinging, I would go for shoulder and negative pullups, perhaps band assisted ones. Until you are strong enough to do strict ones.
(And to be honest: please never do kipping pullups unless you’ve mastered at least five strict pullups. The kpu require really strong shoulders and is a big question of technique).
In my opinion there should be more variety of progressions as pullups are difficult exercise that needs to be trained with caution.
To go from shoulder pullups straight into pullups could be leading to injury.
I know we should use common sense and not doing exercises that we can’t perform but it could be misleading for people new into training.
It would be good to include more progressions such as some that you mentioned.
Negative pullups, band pullups, Australian pullups etc…
(And to be honest: please never do kipping pullups unless you’ve mastered at least five strict pullups. The kpu require really strong shoulders and is a big question of technique).
This is the misleading part as in order to get to strict pullups according to app we should “master” swing pullups.
This isn’t the full Skill path @Dark Only what we call “Milestones” are shown in your screenshot.
Jumping Pullups and Negative Pullups are indeed included in the full Skill Path
Regarding the swinging motion, the instruction in the app for Pullups does include a kipping motion, but we know that pullup bar setups will vary greatly from home to home. We’ve always tried to empower Athletes to feel able to adjust their technique accordingly. Even in my home I have to adapt this
Interesting progression. I can do a bunch of #3, one #4 but I cannot do any #2. Clearly, this progression wouldn’t work for me, and I think it wouldn’t work for many people out there.
My main issue here is with the kipping pullups. I think they are more of a skill (timing, etc.) than a strength progression, and it is entirely possible to be able to do strict pullups or to learn to do them without ever doing the kipping option. I wouldn’t include them in this point of progression, but it could be added at the end as it is more of an alternative skill than a skill on the way to a strict pullup?
Indeed, most people would need to adjust the plan and do their own thing in case of the pullup progression.
Just as an example, yesterday I got kipping pullups in my training. I tried 2 or 3 times but couldn’t complete even one. Just got a bit tired of kipping and that was it At the same time, I know I can complete at least one strict pullup. I would have benefited more from practicing strict pullups yesterday and building strength and technique to do 2, 3, etc. Next time I will replace kipping pullups with strict pullups.
In my opinion kipping pullups do not look nearly as impressive as strict ones.
I remember watching big crossfit competitions when it blew up and kipping pullups where silliest exercise i’ve seen. Not to take away the skill you need to do them, especially the reps these people were pulling off.
They just looked silly.