TURBOCHARGE YOUR PULLUPS WITH MAXIMUM NEURAL DRIVE

THEY SAID I WAS INSANE! HAHAHAHA

They told me I was clueless, that it doesn't work— they said we need bands and assisted fucking machines— that that's the way to build your pull-up game.

I told them NO— it's a LACK OF STRENGTH that is impeding you from banging tons of reps on them pullups— and STRENGTH is built in the 1-3 rep range, with forceful explosive contractions.

I've walked around with BLOATLORD status, unable to do a single pull-up— and yeah, exactly like most of us, when I went there to try and failed miserably to do a single repetition I felt utterly stupid.

It sucks, going there and struggling to hit a single pull-up is embarrassing AS HELL.

But if you ever dreamed of having the strength to hit 15+ consecutive pull-ups— freedom of movement to climb stuff effortlessly, and even potentially hold your entire body weight with a single hand on the edge of a cliff as you hold on to that girl you had a crush since high school as she says "SAVE YOURSELF!!"— and you reply "I'M NOT GONNA LET YOU GO!!"— and in a particularly Vulgar Display of Power you pull both of you up, fall in love, make some babies and live happily ever after.

That shit will REQUIRE you one out of three things— beastly half-Viking/half-Yoruba genetics, all the time in the world to do a bazillion pull-ups, or the proper understanding of how to train pull-ups using MAXIMUM NEURAL DRIVE.

If you've ever hit me up with some lower back problems that are preventing you from squatting or deadlifting— my reply was probably "Yo, bruh, take a look at The McGill Big 3" and then I probably proceeded to make a WAY TO LONG explanation about force transference, and the importance of a strong core.

Dr. Stuart McGill is just A BALLER, one of the greatest minds in exercise science today— a retired professor of spine biomechanics from the University of Waterloo who specializes in injury prevention and performance optimization— after watching video on YT where he was teaching The McGill Pullup to no other than Powerlifting Extraordinaire and author of the book "The Gift Of Injury" Brian Carrol— who shattered his back with multiple fractures in 2012, and with the aid of Dr. MgGill fully rehabbed and went on to consistently put up elite numbers in equipped powerlifting, even an astonishing 1306lbs squat— I was pleasantly surprised when Dr. McGill instructed Brian to hang from the bar, engage the scapula, and hit 1-2 super explosive, full-ROM repetitions.

The idea here is teaching your body to recruit the maximum number of motor units by implementing pristine technique with a fast yet controlled execution engaging the entirety of the back and using the rest of the body as stabilizers, leading to that MAXIMUM NEURAL DRIVE— teaching your body to leverage the biomechanical real-estate it already got, tight back, tight core, and even pushing your legs against each other to optimize force application.

The results of such an approach, as stated by Dr. McGill, is that he could get people that never managed to go above 6 consecutive pull-ups, and get them to hit 30 👀

Bruh, I confess that I was skeptical— so I had to try it.

Instead of my usual 3-5 sets of 6-8 with full-ROM, slow eccentrics, and an emphasis on the stretch— I've switched to 30 sets of 1 rep, in clusters of 5 repetitions, meaning, I would hit 1 rep starting with a 1-second hang, locking the scapula, and then going SUPER EXPLOSIVELY, almost slamming my chest to the bar— resting for 15 seconds, and doing it again until I completed 5 reps.

After 5, I took 2-3 minutes rest and did another cluster.

3 WEEKS— it took ONLY THREE WEEKS, for me to take my max strict pullups from 12 reps, where I was almost farting to complete the last one, to 15 CLEAN reps.

This might not sound like much, but DUDE, trust me, it's INSANE.

I'm not a beginner, and I'm walking around at the heavier side of the spectrum these days, floating between 180-190lbs, having that improvement after all those years of training is BONKERS.

I can only imagine how many reps I'll be able to bang when I go back to 160lbs.

And you know what's the funny thing about it— that almost makes me feel stupid— I've been doing something similar with my deadlifts FOR YEARS, ever since I read Swede Burns's book Fifth Set, and started watching his videos on YT, I started only pulling singles in clusters just like I'm doing with the pullups now.

And that approach brought my deadlifts back to the mid 400's— a level of strength that felt unachievable after I lost 90lbs of lard from my frame HAHAHA— so maybe, this concept can be reproducible for other lifts as well.

We'll see, I'll start testing this with Presses, Cleans, and BB Rows, and see what the fuck happens— if all of a sudden I'm making newbie gainz all over again, I promise I'll let you guys know HAHAHAHA

Try this out, and let me know if it works for you too, and as always, if you need any further clarification on the matter, just answer this email or comment below.

BANG IRON, MY BRUDDAH!

Big KISS

THE POTATO MAN