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Old 08-06-2014, 04:40 PM   #17
Regorium
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Originally Posted by Kybosh View Post
As a climber and someone who's done thousands of pull-ups, I would advise against putting a weight in something like a backpack because it could lead to injury. If you get to the point of weighted pull-ups, suspend the weight underneath your body either with a belt or even hang dumbbells between your knees. Nobody should do weighted pull-ups until you can do sets of 10 anyway.
Why is this? I would've thought it was exactly the same.

(I say this because I don't have a weight belt and been putting 40lbs in a backpack to do weighted pullups)
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