Are pull-ups an excercise you can do daily without hampering recovery?

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I really enjoy doing them and at this point they take little to no effort. I only do them weighted on back day, only thing I fear I might overtrain are my forearms since the only day I don't use them is on leg day
 
Yes. I used to do the Recon Ron program.
 
Yes you can do them every day. I do them at least 5-6 days a week and pretty much never go to failure.
 
You can do it daily, but try not to go to failure too often or you may develop pain in your elbows or forearm flexors.

When I first joined the Marines, I was a big strong guy, but was absolutely horrendous at pull ups. I think I was only cranking out maybe 11 dead hang by the end of bootcamp. When I got to my first duty station, I decided to fix this by doing a sub max set every time I passed a pull up bar. For those that have never been on a Marine base, they're everywhere, so it's impossible to avoid them.

I'd end up doing several sets a day (I never kept count) and would stop 1 or 2 rep shy of failure. My pull ups improved very quickly. Now, they refer to this method as "greasing the groove", but I swear I came up with that shit first.
 
KILL KILL said:
You can do it daily, but try not to go to failure too often or you may develop pain in your elbows or forearm flexors.

When I first joined the Marines, I was a big strong guy, but was absolutely horrendous at pull ups. I think I was only cranking out maybe 11 dead hang by the end of bootcamp. When I got to my first duty station, I decided to fix this by doing a sub max set every time I passed a pull up bar. For those that have never been on a Marine base, they're everywhere, so it's impossible to avoid them.

I'd end up doing several sets a day (I never kept count) and would stop 1 or 2 rep shy of failure. My pull ups improved very quickly. Now, they refer to this method as "greasing the groove", but I swear I came up with that shit first.
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That's pretty much what I do. I'm also usually carrying a backpack if I'm out so I get a bit of weighted pull up work.
 
Chungungo said:
Like Pavel ?
I´m gonna switch to judogi pull ups ...
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Exactly like pavel. Before I was doing them as part of a workout, like 3x10 or something, now I just do some constantly throughout the day.
 
I guess I'm the oddball. I tried doing them every day and ended up with tendinitis. Old man problems.
 
MMA Maine-iac said:
I'd have to divide by zero if I did that. :p
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I'm assuming that you can at least do 2 pull ups, right? If so, then just do a bunch of sets of 1 to start. Before too long, that will become easy and you'll be able to do sets of 2, then 3, etc.

They key is to get some work in without ever going to failure so as though it is not taxing enough to prevent you from doing it again the next day.
 
KILL KILL said:
I'm assuming that you can at least do 2 pull ups, right? If so, then just do a bunch of sets of 1 to start. Before too long, that will become easy and you'll be able to do sets of 2, then 3, etc.

They key is to get some work in without ever going to failure so as though it is not taxing enough to prevent you from doing it again the next day.
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TBH pullups are something I need to work on. 5 clean chinups is my max and has been for a long time.
 
If you're a 120lb girl you can get get away with doing them daily. However, if you're a grown ass man it's a little different.
 
spdrew2143 said:
If you're a 120lb girl you can get get away with doing them daily. However, if you're a grown ass man it's a little different.
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I'm a grown ass man and I do them daily, I wish I saw your post earlier then I would have know I can't do them everyday. Damn.
 
spdrew2143 said:
If you're a 120lb girl you can get get away with doing them daily. However, if you're a grown ass man it's a little different.
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bull. The key is to not go to failure and not overdo it with volume. The Recon Ron program is one of the most popular programs on the web and has helped many many people increase their pull ups.
 
KILL KILL said:
You can do it daily, but try not to go to failure too often or you may develop pain in your elbows or forearm flexors.

When I first joined the Marines, I was a big strong guy, but was absolutely horrendous at pull ups. I think I was only cranking out maybe 11 dead hang by the end of bootcamp. When I got to my first duty station, I decided to fix this by doing a sub max set every time I passed a pull up bar. For those that have never been on a Marine base, they're everywhere, so it's impossible to avoid them.

I'd end up doing several sets a day (I never kept count) and would stop 1 or 2 rep shy of failure. My pull ups improved very quickly. Now, they refer to this method as "greasing the groove", but I swear I came up with that shit first.
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Back when I was in they would make us do sets to failure all the time. It was so stupid. I never made all that much progress with my pullups, to be honest. "Let's do lots of sets of pullups to failure." No science whatsoever behind it.
 
i feel like theres not much point in doing more than 20 or so pullups at a time. after that point you are better adding weight than adding more reps
 
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