Coaches Chin up pull over help

[Tally Ho]

Hi, looking for help, advice, and maybe a miracle! We have a young squad girl age 6 who just cannot get her chin up pullover, we are doing lots of conditioning etc. when it comes to the move she can do the chin up and get her legs towards the bar then just gets stuck? It's really gotten to the point now where it's very disheartening for her. Anyone got any tips etc?

 

[Aussie_coach]

What sort of drills have you been doing?

 

[gymdog]

How many hanging leg lifts can she do?

 

[wgagym]

Sounds like she is not understanding to drop her head at that point. We do alot of bar levers to get them used to that feeling of chin to hips.

 

[iwannacoach]

Try having her hang in an upside down L position with her hands on the bar. Then have her pull the bar toward her chin while you help her stay balanced. Don't worry if it feels like you're carrying a lot of her weight, because the idea is to give her a complete sense of what the skill feels like and what muscles are needed at various stages. If you do this for 3 sets of 5 repetitions each and there's no change, then try the same idea but with a little less rotation to the original upside down L.

 

[Deleted member 14190]

Do them in reverse, lower slowly. and from a swing, (infant giant, smaller then a baby giant. ).

 

[GymMom&Coach]

Chin up, to a candle stick hold, to a upside down pike. Over and over and over. She'll get it

 

[Tally Ho]

Thanks everyone, we will try introducing these things one at a time to see what works for her, hate seeing them get upset over moves they can't master!

 

[Tally Ho]

Just wanted to say thanks to you all for your advise, she gas just this week started getting over the bar, it's a bit scruffy bent legged, but we will take that at the moment, she is so happy!