9 months postpartum and still focused. Back in NY there was a park I would run to that had an adult workout area. The park included pull up bars, monkey bars, benches for plyometrics, parallel bars, and various other equipment that one could push, pull, and swing upon. I would run about 1.5 miles to the park, do various drills for 20-40 minutes then run home. I loved that routine. It was there that I mastered my pull-ups and also my plyometric jumps. I stopped much of this routine by the time I was about 4 months pregnant. Since then I have moved, had my baby, and set up my own fitness studio.
Two of the first pieces of equipment that I purchased for my new studio space included the plyometric box and the pull-up bar. Soon after I got the plyo box I started back into my plyo routines. But I am just now getting back into doing pull-ups. I had not done them for over a year (pregnancy plus postpartum). I was sad to find that I no longer could do full pulls-ups. Pre-pregnancy I was able to do 3-5 sets of 6-8 pull-ups at a time. And now I can do NONE! So I am back to the beginning again. I am now back to doing assisted pull-ups (using resistance bands) and jump pull-ups. In this video you will see me jumping off the bosu in order to get momentum to complete my pull-ups.
It is frustrating to not be able to do what I once was able to do. But as I have said before, instead of dwelling on what we can’t do, we have to focus on what we can do and our new goals. I hope to be sharing videos of me doing my full pull-ups one day in the near future. But for now, here is what I CAN do…
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