I've been working on one armed pullups while studying for finals. I have a ways to go, but I'm making some progress. The path starts with being able to do a normal pullup. Get to where you can do ten or so, being sure to use a variety of grips in your training. Overhand, underhand, neutral, do 'em all. If you find you are better at one type, train the others a bit harder. And don't do wide-grip. Shoulder width gives you a longer range of motion. There's no point in doing this sort of thing if you aren't going to do a full ROM. Anyway, once you get to this point, hang a towel off one end of your bar, and do a pullup with one hand gripping the towel lower than the bar, and the other on the bar. Work towards lowering your grip on that towel, taking turns with hands, of course, and eventually you'll be pulling almost entirely with the high arm. Then you can drop the towel and try a one handed pullup. This the real thing, no gripping your wrist with your opposite hand. A bonus to this exercise is that the towel method will add a lot of grip strength, too.

I'm really looking forward to finals being over. I decided not to go join the gym with the olympic lifting until Friday when I'm done. I have two finals left, one will be fairly pedestrian, the sort of thing I could have gotten a 50 on before I ever signed up for the class, and will get a very good grade easily now. The other will be a bit tougher, which is why I'm delaying the gym move. I have a feeling my new workouts will be longer and more exhausting. I can't wait to get started!

I just found a nifty website covering lots of the bodyweight exercises I want to learn. In fact the goal of the site's creator was to make information on these sort of things available to people googling for them.