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muscledog95

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Pull ups are the work of the devil. Can people have strong backs and just suck at pullups? Im going to stick to them I tell ya damnet.lol
 
I'm pretty weak at pull-ups and I must look hilarious while doing them. My abs actually get sore because I have to use my legs to finish the set.
 
They're by FAR my worst exercise. I'm going to start hitting them hard. But I do my chinups with my hands all the way out on the slanty end things. :bawling:
 
just like an upper body squat, they suck ass but work
 
Ive been doing nothing but chin/pull ups for my back recently. Doing endless amount of sets throughout the day. Its definitely becoming a love/hate relationship haha
 
i like to take the exercise im weakest at and just kill it week in and out untill it becomes my strongest....pull ups is that exercise and has been for a couple months now
 
i've hated pullups for a long time. marine corps makes you do them a lot. pure dead hangs. knees have to stay below your waist, can't kick, can't get your body swinging for momentum, have to pause briefly with arms fully extended at the bottom.....with those requirements, 20 pullups was considered a perfect score. closest i ever got was 18. we were allowed to switch grips in the middle, so long as you didn't get off the bar. most everyone would start off overhand and then switch to underhand. i was usually good for 11 or 12 overhand, then another 3 or 4 underhand. i have to see what i can do now though, been a long time since i tried to bang out 20 of them.
 
crak600 said:
i've hated pullups for a long time. marine corps makes you do them a lot. pure dead hangs. knees have to stay below your waist, can't kick, can't get your body swinging for momentum, have to pause briefly with arms fully extended at the bottom.....with those requirements, 20 pullups was considered a perfect score. closest i ever got was 18. we were allowed to switch grips in the middle, so long as you didn't get off the bar. most everyone would start off overhand and then switch to underhand. i was usually good for 11 or 12 overhand, then another 3 or 4 underhand. i have to see what i can do now though, been a long time since i tried to bang out 20 of them.
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They're not pullups unless you do them as described here :D
 
crak600 said:
i've hated pullups for a long time. marine corps makes you do them a lot. pure dead hangs. knees have to stay below your waist, can't kick, can't get your body swinging for momentum, have to pause briefly with arms fully extended at the bottom.....with those requirements, 20 pullups was considered a perfect score. closest i ever got was 18. we were allowed to switch grips in the middle, so long as you didn't get off the bar. most everyone would start off overhand and then switch to underhand. i was usually good for 11 or 12 overhand, then another 3 or 4 underhand. i have to see what i can do now though, been a long time since i tried to bang out 20 of them.
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I'm glad they finally changed that. When I was in (87-91), we could "kip" - which was basically swinging and bouncing to get up there. I never did get the "kip" down - I just strong-armed them. Best I got was 18, but I only weighed 150 pounds back then :)

I like the idea of switching grips - I'm going to try that.
 
pullups are great! I am happy I am able to get 3 sets of 8 now, reverse grip, palms facing toward me, i dunno what that is called?

I remember when i used to wrestle at 160 lbs in high school i could bang out 25 of those fuckers. Now I do 8 at 260 lbs oh well hehe
 
Mike_Rojas said:


I'm glad they finally changed that. When I was in (87-91), we could "kip" - which was basically swinging and bouncing to get up there. I never did get the "kip" down - I just strong-armed them. Best I got was 18, but I only weighed 150 pounds back then :)

I like the idea of switching grips - I'm going to try that.
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guy i met said that when he went in, they were trying to teach him how to 'kip' and he could never get it down. after a year of people trying to teach him, he finally got it. a few months later, they did away with it and it really hurt him, because he was so used to kipping that he couldn't do them right.

the muscles involved between overhand and underhand, well, it feels like there's a slight difference. maybe it's in the way that they are being used, i don't know. hell, i barely know what half my muscles are, i just know that my workout covers all of them (i think). anyway, if you do plan on switching grips, go overhand first. i can gaurentee if you go underhand first, you won't have much left to do them overhand, that is unless you are just exceptionally strong and can do 40+ of those evil things. everyone i had ever met in the marine corps could not do a single pullup overhand if they used up all their energy doing them underhand first.
 
i've just started doing them, but am still quite poor at them, so i'm using that weighted machine to help you get back up, i'll gradually take the weight down over time and hopefully be able to do sets of 12 with my own body weight, good workout though!!
 
if you got someone to spot you, do them with bodyweight until you get fatigued, then bend at the knees to bring your feet up behind you and have someone hold your feet. that way you can keep pulling and use your legs to slightly assist you to get up. i did a lot of that when we were trying to get my max number of pullups past 10. i think doing that is better than doing them weighted, but that's just my opinion.
 
WalkingBeast said:
Do you guys do them weighted or with bodyweight only? I only use BW
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I do them weighted. Usually a 25lb for set of 8. I used to do a 45 for 5 but then I stopped doing pullups for 3 months because of the Old school routine so I'm back to 25s.
 
im doin pullups with an added 50lbs for two sets of 5 (i pyramid the weight up to it and then back down). i have NO idea how many i could do without weight, all i know is that at only bodyweight they seem SO easy to me now, it feels like im about to fly over the bar. weighted pullups is the way to go for sure.

on the other hand, a dude at the gym showed me how to do one-handed pullups the other day. talk about hard!!! i could barely get one.
 
I am up to 2 sets of 8 with an added 10 pounds. But my bodyweight is still going up, too, so it's progressive resistance every week :)
 
Oh sure, I'm about to head out the door for my back workout and lo & behold a thread on pull-ups!

Depending on the hand grip (palms in/out) it will affect how your arm muscles are used (bis, tris). But to my understanding, the back muscles that are used are about the same (wide grip=more lats, Narrow grip more mid-back traps &rhoms).

So I'm off to punish myself just like everyone mentioned on this thread now.

And you have to say "EVIL" just like the guy from Austin Powers "EEEEEVIL"....
 
Slow, controlled negatives Chins, will increase your strength and number of reps you can do. Knock out as many as you can do on your own. Take a 1-2 minute break then finish with 1-3 negative Chins.
 
Unless you can only do 5 pullups at bodyweight, you gotta go weighted. I only do an extra 40 for 5 reps now, but I'm getting up there. Also, bodyweight is increasing, so technically I'm pulling more.
 
I live in a small town and lift in my highschools gym, they dont erally have that much, how can i add weight to my pullups?
 
Lukeb5301 ... you can hold a dumbell between your feet, you would be suprised how much you can hold and keep stable too..not much of a problem. If you have bands..which you probably don't but.... you can just loop it through a plate or 5 :), and put it around your neck. Or if you have any small children around just have them hang on your back :)
 
Lukeb5301 - you can borrow my 2 kids. i'll start you off with the small one, maybe 35lbs. once your done with him, i want him back. then you can take the larger one, she's maybe 50lbs. i want her back when she's 18. have fun!

in all seriousness, follow the recommendations from the other guys, unless you really want my 2 kids lol
 
Griz1 said:


Depending on the hand grip (palms in/out) it will affect how your arm muscles are used (bis, tris). But to my understanding, the back muscles that are used are about the same (wide grip=more lats, Narrow grip more mid-back traps &rhoms).
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Actually, no, they use your biceps and never your triceps either way.
 
I was able to do 7 complete one-armed chin-ups last year during the Winter. Did it right in my weightroom at school. Now I can get 3-4.
 
Yeah, nothing is quiet like DLs or Squats in terms of exhausting. Squats are the most exausting. Every time I throw the bar backon the wrack i need to lean against the cage for a few seconds and I'm sweating like I ran a marathon.
 
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