Pullups - chin over the bar or bar to chest?

[aries]

So guys, how are you doing pullups? Chin over the bar or chest to bar? I can't reach with my chest to bar when i do pullups, but i can if i'm doing chinups. When i do pullups i feel like chin over the bar is the end way, i can't imagine how can you pull yourself higher? And everywhere i read about pullups it says that the correct way doing them is chest to bar.

Could be you can't get higher because you haven't got your body in the right position. To get your chest to the bar you have to have your body at an inclined angle and not just pull straight up and down or else your upper chest/clavicle would hit the bar first and stop you pulling any higher.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

It should be called sternum ups.

 

[SummerStriker]

You only need one muscle up for life.

One muscle up with your girlfriend hanging on your back is better.

They are just a tool to get you to a muscle up so you don't get eaten by dogs or killed in a fire.

Unless you are shooting for a muscle up, or if you are a hero, a muscle up with a person hanging on your back, or an awesome one handed muscle up while curling a person up with you... pull-ups are just vanity.

 

[aries]

You only need one muscle up for life.

One muscle up with your girlfriend hanging on your back is better.

They are just a tool to get you to a muscle up so you don't get eaten by dogs or killed in a fire.

Unless you are shooting for a muscle up, or if you are a hero, a muscle up with a person hanging on your back, or an awesome one handed muscle up while curling a person up with you... pull-ups are just vanity.

I assume you meant pull ups to chest?

Even then I'd say they have a use beyond just muscle ups. For a start they are harder because of the longer pull although lots of people will use momentum to assist. This could be a useful way to increase intensity for people who can't easily add weight to their pull ups plus a nice variation if you want a change.

And if you want to make them harder you can progress them into a front lever pull up which is a lot harder or use easier variations like the tucked version to add an element of horizontal pulling to your bar work.

 

[SummerStriker]

I assume you meant pull ups to chest?

Even then I'd say they have a use beyond just muscle ups. For a start they are harder because of the longer pull although lots of people will use momentum to assist. This could be a useful way to increase intensity for people who can't easily add weight to their pull ups plus a nice variation if you want a change.

And if you want to make them harder you can progress them into a front lever pull up which is a lot harder or use easier variations like the tucked version to add an element of horizontal pulling to your bar work.

I'm just talking shit.

I think pull-ups of all types directly let me jerk people around wrestling easier. Plus, if you are like 250+ pounds people look at you like you are crazy when you can do them. Me getting a muscle up would be like a year long project.

 

[RafailNadull]

The muscle up really is a bitch, still can't do it despite being light as a feather.

Was quite depressed the other day when some super jacked guy in the gym started his work out with 3 sets of 7 muscle ups the other day.

 

[Left Hook Lacy]

I wonder how you actually learn the muscle up. I kinda think if someone knowledgable was around me he could give me a few cues and 5 minutes later I would be able to do a (kipping) muscle up. I mean you dont have to be super strong for it, right!?

I might start going to gymnastics classes. That might help.

 

[rE]

It depends on how you are built, for very tall people going chin over bar might not be possible.

Not true. It depends on what you consider tall, but I'm 6'4 and I have no problem going to clavicle, even chest on chin-ups, if I pull fast. And I see no reason why even taller people couldn't do it.

 

[Tosa]

I might start going to gymnastics classes. That might help.

If you have the option available to you, I'd recommend it. You'd probably have a lot of fun, and learn a bunch of good movement skills. There's a reason why the State sport schools of the USSR and China started with a lot of gymnastics.

 

[rE]

One muscle up with your girlfriend hanging on your back is better.

Even if your girlfriend is light, that would be quite an accomplishment. If she's a 120 and your're around 220-240, that's muscle up with half bodyweight!

 

[Dan O]

How is it even a question whether one is harder than the other? Are you serious right now?
Do you people think before you speak?

 

[CauseImbetta]

Chest to bar is full range of motion. You have to squeeze your back muscles to stimulate hypertrophy.

 

[KNELE]

bar to chest without doubt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpaDAUpxGnQt

 

[aries]

I wonder how you actually learn the muscle up. I kinda think if someone knowledgable was around me he could give me a few cues and 5 minutes later I would be able to do a (kipping) muscle up. I mean you dont have to be super strong for it, right!?

I might start going to gymnastics classes. That might help.

Check out Gymnastic WOD with Carl Paoli. He has a good progression for the bar muscle up and really breaks down the technique of pulling to the 'hips' and the all important transition from pull to dip.
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