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JarheadJedi
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Do you hyoooge sumbitches find it hard to do pullups?
Pullups?
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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.
You can tell 2thick's done his share.
Baby Gorilla
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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.
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
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if you have trouble doing pullups.. try doing negatives as well as using the assist machines
Japanese machine
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macrophage69alpha said:
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.
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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...)
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...)
SofaGeorge
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Get a dip belt so you can hang weight. When I weighted 240lbs I could do sets of 12 with 80 lbs. (Wide grip)
Pullups with weight built my back.
Pullups with weight built my back.
THeMaCHinE
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Another thing that works to add weight if you don't have access to a dip belt is to do your pullups from the crossbar of your cable cross after looping the cable around your waist (it digs in a little, but no biggie).
I can't remember what my best numbers are with weighted pullups. My backs always been one of my strongest points though.
I can't remember what my best numbers are with weighted pullups. My backs always been one of my strongest points though.
Numberfive
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I could do pullups all day long in high school -- when I weighed 150 lbs........
I'm at almost 195 lbs. now, and haven't done them for a LONG time. When I do them now, or go really heavy on the lat pulldowns, I get some incredible pain in my right shoulder. It comes from deep inside -- like it might be the rotator cuff. I love to go with the wide grip -- great pump in the lats, but the pain is something awful.
I've never injured that shoulder in any way. Is there something I can change in my form to make that excercise part of my routine again?? Today starts the second week of test and d-bol for me, so I'd love to get the pullups going again without tearing up that shoulder......
I'm at almost 195 lbs. now, and haven't done them for a LONG time. When I do them now, or go really heavy on the lat pulldowns, I get some incredible pain in my right shoulder. It comes from deep inside -- like it might be the rotator cuff. I love to go with the wide grip -- great pump in the lats, but the pain is something awful.
I've never injured that shoulder in any way. Is there something I can change in my form to make that excercise part of my routine again?? Today starts the second week of test and d-bol for me, so I'd love to get the pullups going again without tearing up that shoulder......
Silverback316
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When I was around 200 lbs I use to be able to do about 25 pull-ups with the complete stretch at the bottom, but now weighing in at 260 lbs I can get about 10 on my first set followed by no more than 6 after that.
Fukkenshredded
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I'm light and skinny, but I can do pull-ups like a cyborg. 40 strict, 50-ish if I don't pause at the bottom. When I weighed 167 I could get 1 legitimate one handed pull-up with each arm. One was all I ever got, and at that time I could get 50 strict two handed.
Well, that and a buck gets me a coke, eh?
Well, that and a buck gets me a coke, eh?
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Jack Diesel
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I just started a new routine that has me doing all of the basic excercises that are necessary for strength and growth. I havent been doing any of them and I realize now how important they are. One of them is wide grip chins along with barbell lift and cleans , goodmornings and other such strength and endurance builders.
SofaGeorge
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Zyglamail said:
Impressive was Art Zeller. Art was a bodybuilder/powerlifter from the heyday of Muscle Beach... and went on to be one of the world's most famous bodybuilder photographers. He died 3 1/2 years ago.
Art could do sets of pullups with 200lbs on a weight belt.
He could also do dips with 300lbs.
He wasn't huge. He was just strong. He lifted in the era when bodybuilders took pride in their strength.
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HighIntensity
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everyone talks deads, bb rows
but the truth is weighted chins are what builds a great back bar none
but the truth is weighted chins are what builds a great back bar none
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Dr.M
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Tall, long arms, and 14.x% bodyfat, I can only do about 6 or 7 genuine pullups, after that NEGATIVES as mentioned. I love rows as well, and pullups blow away pulldowns.
SofaGeorge
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HighIntensity said:
That's the gospel. My back always sucked no matter what routine I tried as a kid. Then one day I went up to the guy with the most awesome back I had ever seen. (He was even YOUNGER than me too.) He told me he always had a sucky back till someone had suggested his back routine be:
80 pullups... no matter how many sets it took
He told me when he first started he would be doing a lot of sets where he was only getting 2-3 reps.
I tried it... had a huge learning curve... and still remember how excited I was when I could finally get 80 reps in less than 10 sets.
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