First up is Marianne Urbanski, from Meriden, CT. Here, Marianne does not one, but TWO gorgeous, overhand grip dead hangs. She wrote on the CrossFit Boards, "Now I will continue to work these to develop my strength and continue to use the kipping pull-ups in the workouts... I look forward to developing my strength with the dead hang so I can do ALL the workouts as Rx'd". Rock on, sister.
Next up is Katie Emery, from CrossFit Portland. Katie made a video charting her pull-up progress. She wrote, "I wanted to let you know I enjoyed your post about pull-ups. You make some great points that I hope to use with clients at our affiliate, CrossFit Portland. I also wanted to send you a video we put together. I got my first dead hang pull-up in January. What a feeling!" I love the happy dance at the end... hot stuff, Katie!
And finally, CrossFit 603'er and Lakes Region Fitness owner Andrea Byron got her first dead hang pull-up during our Saturday class. In fact, she did two! No video, but this is clearly chin over bar. I see lots of pull-ups in Andrea's future, and plenty more girls (and guys) joining the 603 Pull-Up Club.
Are you a hot chick with a solid dead hang? (That's full extension to chin over bar, ladies... but feel free to choose your own grip.) Send pictures or a video, and I'll make you famous-ish. And congrats to Marianne, Katie and Andrea!
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Congratulations, all - those videos are great!
Even though I'm not a hot chick, and I've got pullups, I really appreciated the original article, too... I worked dead-hangs in the beginning because I had no kip, but once I got my kip, I stopped doing dead-hangs. And then I noticed my kipping potential started getting weaker and weaker. I thought, "overtraining?", but I wasn't, and I knew it.
Reading your article helped me realize I was dependent on the kip, and my overall strength was getting less.
Now, I do dead-hangs for my warm-up sets, and kip during WODs. Big, big difference.
Damn,I want to be famous-ish!
awesome post melissa, great job ladies!!
lol can I do this too?
When CF Seattle was originally CF North, I was known as the (kipping) pull up queen ... I wonder if I can be the same with dead hangs!
Heh I may send you a video Melissa :)
Can't wait to show this to the wife for motivation. She just started doing CF with me and one of her goals is a pull-up. Thanks for posting this up, and great job to all the lady's who got this
Rachel,
Do it! I've got the hot ladies of CrossFit Toronto pulling something together for me as well, I believe.
You and Brian need to come visit me. Seriously. Road trip!
Melissa
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