A noun phrase

Hello, fellow English lovers!

I'm having a bit of a discussion with a friend of mine about two noun phrases - are they both possible and is there a difference in meaning, or is only one of them correct, or both are and they both mean the same thing and the difference is merely syntactic?

The noun phrases in question are these two:

1) A pull up the ladder with force.
2) A pull-up on the ladder with force.

The way I see it:

1) One's on a ladder and one pulls oneself up. It's not too easy, so one has to use some force. Hence, the movement one performs is "a pull up the ladder with force".
2) One is performing pull-ups on the ladder using force.

The way she sees it:

1) This is wrong.
2) This is the correct way of expressing what I think I'm expressing in 1).

So, how do you understand these?

P.S.: These noun phrases are an excerpt from a piece of writing that presents an allegoric view of how people move forward in their lives.