people who do pullups

[muscledog95]

Do pullups with palms facing you increase pull ups with the palms facing away. I can't do pullups worth a poop grrrrrrlol

 

[Synpax]

Is there a question in there?

Here's the deal with beginners who can't do any or no more than 1 or two. You need to find an assisted pullup machine and set it to whatever to get you to do 15. EG:

Do 20 with 80 lbs of support
Do 15 with 60 lbs of support
Do 10 with 40 lbs of support
Do 5 with 30 lbs of support

And gradually move those support weights down as you gain strength. I started that 8 months ago - just like that - and now I do 4 sets of 10 with an ADDITIONAL 30, 20, and 10 pounds hanging from my waist.

BTW - I do palms facing me.

 

[The Red Dragon]

He was asking if supinated pullups aid pronated ones executed at a later time. I assume they do, however, pronated pullups seem to hit the lats harder than supinated ones...could be because a significant amount of bicep force is taken out of the movement.
I agree with synpax, I was doing 4x6...now that I don't have an assisted machine (my campus gym sucks) I can barely get 1-2. The counterweight I used was 40lbs. High reps work better...be sure to do slow grueling negatives.

 

[LifterCA]

I do both. 3X8 with 45 lbs extra regular pullups and 3X8 chinups(palms facing towards)

 

[XtremePowerLifter2000]

if you cant do regular pullups do fatman pull ups. Check them out on elitefts.com i love these!!


Kc

 

[SlavikHavik]

in a word.
yes

 

[Atomic Punk]

I think that doing pulls with the palms facing away from you would increase your pulls with palms facing you, but not the other way around. You see, when you do them pronated(palms away), you are taking away a signifigant assist from the biceps, thus making the lats work harder. When you switch to the supinated grip(palms facing you), you are then adding a muscle group to aid the back in pulling the weight, which would obviously aid you in getting more reps, weight, whatever. However, if you concentrated on supinated grip pulls primarily, you would have a harder time doing pronated pulls, being that you are then subtracting that additional muscle group, thus causing you to have to rely on less muscle groups to aid in the pull.

If you want to increase your pull, and don't have the machine-aided pull(as these guys have already stated), then I would surely go with the supinated-grip(palms facing), in order to apply the most assistance to the back in order to complete the repetition(that assist being the biceps). If you can only get 1 or 2, then get them, then have a partner help you(I like to have people push on my middle back, rather than grab my ankles. Ankle-grabbing while spotting on pulls causes one to swing) force a couple more, then do a negative or 2. I'd start with those, and do 2 or 3 sets. They are tough if you're not natually adept to performing them. You'll get them though eventually there Private Pyle! J/K

 

[htown71]

Do pullups with palms facing you increase pull ups with the palms facing away. I can't do pullups worth a poop grrrrrrlol

I do them even though I can not do too many. It does not seem to make any difference to me which way I do them I tend to die out around number six.