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Resistance band assisted pullups are a great tool to get your first bodyweight pullup if you have a good selection of bands and a pullup bar. But if you are like me you don’t have a selection of bands lying around the house. You might have only one loop band or an adjustable band with handles. Resistance bands provide most assistance on bottom of the movement and little to none on the top. This makes training a bit more difficult if you lack strength in the top position. That's why I prefer the rack pullup progression with a bar or rings [ LINK ] since you get more resistance at the bottom of the pullup with this progression. But this does not mean you can’t progress to a full bodyweight pullup with resistance band assisted pullups. You’ll just have to lower the assistance from the resistance band as you get stronger. How to adjust resistance with a single band Usually the resistance band is directly wrapped around the pullup bar. But depending on the height of the attachment point...