The Perfect Pullup
The Perfect Pullup
You might have heard about this little device, advertised on television to help improve pullups or make them easier for people to do them without getting pre-disposed to injury.
Before discussing any topic, we first have to understand the context of which are speaking about. Here are several “beliefs” that one may assume regarding the perfect pullup device and some questions to ponder about those potentially-held beliefs:
1) The Perfect Pullup handles prevent injury
why would someone get injured in the first place? plenty of people have done pullups for years without injury. Is it the machinery causing the injury or the dysfunctional body going to the machinery? A healthy, functional human body should be able to do both. The perfect pullup handle allows one to corkscrew the hands and arms inward, which allows those with thoracic and shoulder tightness to get away with doing more pullups, because he/she can stay in a thoracically flexed position through the range of motion.
2) The Perfect Pullup handles “kick your butt” and give you a “kick butt workout”
so can a regular pullup bar, right? kicking butt is largely an equation that consists of workload (# of reps/load lifted) over time. 1000 jumping jacks as fast as you can is also a kick butt workout, and so is doing 1000 pullups on a straight bar. Why is the perfect pullup handle MORE kick butt?
3) It’s fun.
I can’t argue this one really. If it is fun, and spending the extra money to buy this thing gets someone to do more pullups, then by all means. Whatever gets people moving, i’m in favor of.
4) The Perfect Pullup helps increase pullup numbers.
If you train on the Perfect Pullup handles, you will probably be able to do more pullups on the perfect pullup machine, however, it may not carry over to a straight bar since it is a modified movement. If you’re training for a pullup competition that is on a straight bar, then train with a straight bar, right? If you look at those who have world records in the pullup, they don’t use the perfect pullup handle…then again, i guess they might not have known about it! Check out Matt Bogdanowicz breaking the world record by doing 46 pullups in 1 minute! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfR8N5VDfQ
5) The Perfect Pullup increases your sex drive by 300% and saves marriages
Maybe the perfect pullup handles are a panacea with many benefits that have yet to be discovered! Can’t wait until the stories start rolling in. Then again, nothing much came of the perfect pushup handles. What’s next, “The Perfect Squat”? Maybe i’ll invent it before they do. Oh wait, they call it a “Smith Machine”, and it still isn’t as cool as the original barbell back squat, which has been the cornerstone of strength training programs for years and will be around for years to come.
So i guess it all comes back to context: why do you need it? Is it better than a straight bar for pullups? if so, how is it better? if you can’t do pullups because it hurts, is it really the bars fault?
The Perfect Pullup is like the Perfect Pushup. It’s Perfect because you paid for it. That’s what’s Perfect!
My advice – spend the $29.95 on a qualified personal trainer, like Charlie!
I already invented the perfect squat. It has rotating foot pads that allow for external rotation as you descend and internal rotation as you ascend so you can really hit that “tear drop”