Like most girls, I have no upper body strength what so ever. I can barely do a real push up and watching me attempt a pull up is like watching a fish flopping on the line…But my goal this year is to do a real pull up without cheating or support (my husband picking me up).

How am I going to do this? By starting with baby steps, or in this case a ball. I call this exercise the Ball Up and I am going to attempt over the next 2-3 weeks to train my upper body to pull myself up on a door hanging pull up bar.

So I challenge all you ladies out there to the Ball up challenge…

Here is the plan for Week one, two and possibly three:

2-3 x week – palm out pull up using giant workout ball as support (knell on ball and pull yourself up to bar)

Since this is a new experiment I’ll post my progress in the next weeks and go from there… wish me luck!