How To PROPERLY Use The Assisted Pull Up Machine (DO MORE PULL UPS)

What's going on everyone? Kyle here from Colossus Fitness, your form expert. Today I'm going to walk you through how to do an assisted pull-up. Let's jump right into it. So, how it's going to work is essentially you're going to get some help from this weight stack. Makes it a lot easier, but you're still doing the movement. So, when you grab this little pin here, the further down you put it, the more assistance you're going to get. The higher up, the harder it's going to be. So, you're going to want to play around with this weight. See what works best for you. But as we try to do this pull-up, we're gonna step up here. And this pad here, your knees are going to go right on top. So, for the sake of this video, obviously a pull-up is an overhand grip. As you move the handles in, this is going to be the neutral grip. It's going to be a little bit easier. And as you do a chin-up, which is an underhand grip, that's going to be a lot easier. But for the sake of this video, we're going to keep it pull-up style. You're going to want to jump up here. And as soon as it starts to go down, you want to get full extension. Straighten your arms fully and then pull yourself all the way up to the top as high as you can comfortably. Control all the way down. Three, two, one. Straighten your arm. Pull all the way up. Okay? And then as you try to get off the machine, the best way to do it is just to do it from here. Cuz a lot of times people will go right to the top, then they'll try to jump down. And you want to be careful cuz you want to make sure that this doesn't fly down. You want to make sure that you don't fall off. You want to be as safe as possible when doing this movement. Now, there are a lot of common mistakes within this. I know it seems very easy to follow. I know there's a lot of basics here, but I'm going to walk you through three common mistakes that a lot of people make that you want to avoid doing. So, first common mistake is not getting a full range of motion. So, what a lot of people do is they'll just go down to the point where they're almost locking out at the very bottom and then they'll just pull themsel up, right? You'll see a lot of this type of stuff just kind of pulling yourself up, short changing yourself at the bottom and at the top. So once again, to do proper reps, straighten all the way down and pull all the way up just to the point where your chin is basically at the top and you're pushing yourself through an entire full range of motion. You want to avoid doing half reps at all costs. Second mistake now is not having my free personal trainer in your pocket. first link down below. Tons of great exercises that can walk you through how to do an exercise properly completely free. Don't miss out. And last, but a very common mistake is not choosing the right weight. So, contrary to every other machine in the gym, the further you go down in the weight stack, the easier it's going to go. So, if you have it at 200 lb, that's going to be a lot of support. So, a lot of people will just put that in and just rush through the movement. So, don't make that mistake. Use a weight that's actually going to challenge you, but not challenge you to the point where you can't even do a pull-up. Cuz that's the point of this exercise is to give you the support you need. And that's it. Give this exercise a try. It's fantastic when done properly. Make sure to smash that like button, get that free form guide down below, first link, and we'll see you in the next video. Peace out.