Heey,
I go to the gym since december. I started at 83,6 kg now I am at 79,4 kg.
My goal is about 72 to 74 kg without losing too much muscles.
Right now I cant do a single pull up and I do a upper body lower body split.
Upper body:
- Lat Pulldowns (cable)
- Seated Rows (cable)
- Australian Pull ups
- Push Ups
- Dead Hangs
- Shoulder press (seated with dumbbells)
- bicep curls standing with Dumbbells
- Triceps cable machine
And lower body days I do
Leg press
Leg extensions (machine)
The other Leg machine that I pull back lol
Lunges
Knee raises on pull up bar
The wednesday and saturday I do inclined walking at 15% incline and 4 km/h speed for 30 minutes
My thought is losing weight, makes pull ups easier and doing some more bodyweight stuff.
Im scared I will develop disbalance somewhere, am I missing something?
Can't speak to the whole routine but for pullups I'd suggest negatives first and then banded pullups. Some gyms even have weight assisted pull up machines
I have a weighted machine in my gym but most ppl dont recommend them cause the core isnt actvated
Pullups are not a core exercise, so don't worry about that. The assist will get you to unassisted pullups
I'm betting 50$ that whomever is telling you that can't properly explain what they mean by that. You can safely ignore people that talks about "activating the core" as they generally don't got a clue.
If you want to be able to learn pull-ups, doing machine assisted pull-ups are perfectly fine.
I heard it from Chris Heria and from some other calisthenics youtuber.