When to Use Pulls, High-Pulls or Speed/Panda Pulls
When should you use regular pulls versus high-pulls versus speed/panda pulls?
If you have any issue with early arm pulling, stick to conventional pulls—sort out the fundamentals first and train proper extension.
If your arms are fine but you have trouble cutting your drive short or swinging the bar away, high-pulls can be a good option for some of your pulling work.
If your extension is dialed in but have trouble with an explosive enough rhythm at the top, you can try speed pulls for some of your pulling work.
Just remember that unless you can truly do them well, high-pulls and speed pulls are likely to create more problems than they can potentially fix—don’t just do them because they seem cool.
Like all exercises, correct execution is the key to their effectiveness. But some exercises have more significant consequences from poor execution, and pulls are one of them.
Rather than fixing the problem, doing pull variations badly often makes the problem worse and even creates new problems in addition.
Regular old pulls will ALWAYS be the best pull variation for newer lifters—the other variations are options to address specific needs/goals once a lifter has mastered the fundamentals.
If you have any issue with early arm pulling, stick to conventional pulls—sort out the fundamentals first and train proper extension.
If your arms are fine but you have trouble cutting your drive short or swinging the bar away, high-pulls can be a good option for some of your pulling work.
If your extension is dialed in but have trouble with an explosive enough rhythm at the top, you can try speed pulls for some of your pulling work.
Just remember that unless you can truly do them well, high-pulls and speed pulls are likely to create more problems than they can potentially fix—don’t just do them because they seem cool.
Like all exercises, correct execution is the key to their effectiveness. But some exercises have more significant consequences from poor execution, and pulls are one of them.
Rather than fixing the problem, doing pull variations badly often makes the problem worse and even creates new problems in addition.
Regular old pulls will ALWAYS be the best pull variation for newer lifters—the other variations are options to address specific needs/goals once a lifter has mastered the fundamentals.
