Good evening,
I’m close to finishing block 1 of the beginner template after a 6 month layoff. Prior to the layoff, I had completed the full beginner template and PB1.
I was reading the Forums, and saw Jordan respond "That said, I do think most people who train should be able to do some pull ups.
In any case, I am more than happy for you to train them and think doing multiple sets of 1-2 in the GPP slot would be appropriate for now. Later, training them more similarly to a main lift might be useful." in response to incorporating pull ups into training.
I would love to get better at pull-ups. For block 2 of the beginner template, upper back GPP is not programmed by time, instead by sets and reps, which I can’t complete 2 sets of 8 to 15 pulls ups. Would it be appropriate to multiple sets of 1 to 2 rep sets, or whatever I can do at the prescribed RPE, in 7 minutes as described above, or should I wait until block 3, where upper backwork is actually programmed as a function of time.
Lastly, for future reference, how would one go about training pull-ups similarly to a main lift as mentioned above? I’m guessing it would involve maybe training pull-ups in the row slot of one of the templates?
Thanks,