2-finger pull-ups

Scott Birdby Scott Bird | March 15, 2007
Filed in Bodyweight | 4 comments

2-finger pull-upI love these things. As you can see, it’s exactly what the name suggests - a pull-up performed using only 2 fingers from each hand.

Although I’ve never tried rock climbing, these are often known as Climbers’ Pull-ups; and a couple of climb training techniques will come in handy. The training tool you’ll need is known as a Fingerboard.

Fingerboards don’t have to be fancy to be effective (the picture here shows the one regularly used by climbing coach Dave McLeod); although there are various commercial offerings if you prefer. Dave discusses the use of a fingerboard here; Moonclimbing also has some great information on this type of training.

Why would you want to do this?

Finger strength. You can never have too much. You’ll also give your hands and forearms generally a good going over. If the hangs and pull-ups are out of the question at the moment, keep in mind that you can use bands to support some of your weight and make things a little easier. Temporarily, of course.

Further reading/viewing

Neil Mathewson demonstrates a couple of 2-finger pull-ups [streaming, 640kb .flv download]

Campusing. And you thought the fingerboard was hard work.


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Comments

1

ha two fingers. I do mine with no fingers, cause I’m not on the bar :-). Cool pullups man.
One of the coolest/cruelest I have ever heard of is mounting a free spinning bar. Then there is no frictions only strength.

Posted by: Mike | March 15, 2007 1:40 PM

2

Cheers. A free-spinning bar sounds like fun :)

Posted by: Scott | March 15, 2007 5:41 PM

3

Link for the Moonclimbing school room has changed to the following following a site update.

http://www.moonclimbing.com/SchoolRoom.aspx

Cheers,
Conor
http://www.moonclimbing.com

Posted by: Conor Boyd | June 25, 2007 8:43 PM

4

Cheers Conor. Updated.

Posted by: Scott | June 25, 2007 9:27 PM

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