Pullups?

[JarheadJedi]

Do you hyoooge sumbitches find it hard to do pullups?

 

[Zerxes]

I can usually rip out 20 with a wide parralel grip on a first set. The thing that will drain you quick is if you pause at the bottom of the movement. Form is essential to keep from rocking and having to do this.

 

[2Thick]

As long as you do them all of the time, your body will adapt. If I hadn't been doing them since I began lifting, I do not know if I could start cold turkey.

 

[ironmaster]

The harder the excercise, the more important it is to development. This is one of the "must do" excercises. Even if you can only get 2 or 3 strict to start, you will improve in short order. Oh, I hate the damn excercise, cause it has a way of spotlighting a flaw in my training, but I do them every back day anyway.
You can tell 2thick's done his share.

 

[Baby Gorilla]

Well....

I'm not "huge" but bodybuilding enables me to do them quite nicely where I never could before.

Heck, if you can lat pull your body weight, you can do pullups.

 

[macrophage69alpha]

if you have trouble doing pullups.. try doing negatives as well as using the assist machines

 

[Japanese machine]

if you have trouble doing pullups.. try doing negatives as well as using the assist machines

One of the most neglected training techniques right there. Negatives. 60-70% of hypertrohpy actually occurs during the negative part of the lift; this is because the muscle is in an expanded postion causeing greater amount of contraction. The shiity part is you really dont get a good pump with negative training; aswell as need a REALLY reliable spotter, especially on the bench press. This method will allow you to "negative lift" much more than standard ROM. THose "air pressured" machines are an option, but they are retarded

Like someone said, we used to do pull-ups when we first started; it would be a great shock to the muscles/system to do them once in a while; we dont have any of those weight clipping belts so body weight is all i could do, thats why i stick to the pull-dows.

 

[Zyglamail]

If I use an overhand grip im good for about 10, underhand grip a few more (im just shy of 250lbs at 5'11" post cycle weight loss )

 

[StRoNg_WoN]

Ya I'm not great at them, but I do as many as I can for 4 sets at the start of back...

Zerxes said:

"I can usually rip out 20 with a wide parralel grip on a first set. The thing that will drain you quick is if you pause at the bottom of the movement. Form is essential to keep from rocking and having to do this."

Pausing... I find it hard NOT to pause when I use a full range of motion (Take into account that I am naturally long... long arms, small frame etc...)

 

[serge]

if you have trouble doing pullups.. try doing negatives as well as using the assist machines

thats what i do