Pullups: God's gift to your upper back

masterfighter said:
pullups or chins?
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BOTH, why the hell would you ignore one of them, for that matter you should also be doing BORs/horizontal pullups.
 
SmashiusClay said:
BOTH, why the hell would you ignore one of them, for that matter you should also be doing BORs/horizontal pullups.
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I only asked cause i wasnt aware pullups worked your back muscles. I thought they worked the biceps more than chins but the back less. I still do both. Did both today actually.
 
Pullups are a sweet way to train hard and look good in the gym.

Nothing cooler than a non-ripped (read as fat) guy busting out some weighted pullups right after a skinny little bitch struggles with body-weight pullups.

For those not able to complete one, this is one situation where negatives are actually supposed to help things. Some study showed that doing as many PUs as you could do, then starting at the top of the movement and lowering yourself as slowly as you could helped to increase the number of pullups you could do more quickly than any of the other methods they tried. Not sure what the methods were or who did the study, so I may be misquoting a bit.

Other variants that are good:

Weighted pullup (of course)

Fat man pullup - put a BB on the pins of a powercage or squat rack and pull up to the bar with your chest, while your heels are on the floor. Put weights on your stomach to make things tougher.

How many folks do wide-grip on their pullups? Do you have any trouble with shoulder pain/stability?
 
Good post, I love pull-ups and hope to aspire to rEmy-like capabilities (sitting around 32 right now at a lanky 152 pounds).

To the poster who mentioned not having a place to do them, a quick fix is to find any door in your house, cram a towel/book/whatever underneath it, and do them from the top of the door (has to be open of course). The towel/book underneath is so you don't do any unnecessary damage
 
Back when i first tried wide grip on my chins i got some shoulder pain and it felt a bit unstable as if it could dislocate so went back to doing then normally and gradually moved out. After a couple of weeks i had moved right out to wide grip and by that time the shoulder was conditioned and strong enough to cope with the force it exerts. You're body will adapt if you push it but be careful not to go to hard and damage the shoulder as it can be very bad in the long run. Stay safe and happy training. :)
 
Bamaispriceless said:
Have you tried single arm pullups? I have wanted to do those for a while now, hopefully will achieve that in a year or so.
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not even close.....at 220 I cant even even hold my body at the top with 1 hand or lower myself with control...I always need 2nd hand to help with balance and control....considering that I can chin up with +125 and pull up with +115....I need to focus mroe on negatives but there's no1 to spot me....and it looks really ghey when someone is helping you on the concentric part.....
 
These are good to bring a full range of motion into it:
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muscle ups are damn hard on a pullup bar... well I'm sure they're damn hard on rings too, but I've never had the opportunity to try.
 
Yeah I find them harder on the rings because I keep pushing the rings out to the sides as I start the push up.
 
they also help spine placement and posture

when i do pullups (ive seen the chiropractor twiec in my whole life, and done a number of things to have bad posture my back cracks LOUDLY in different spots every other rep.. and my right rotator cuff also (which is jammed and out of place) do some pullups in between chiropractor visits
 
Pullups were my obsession over the summer. I started out at like 6 before summer started and was doing 15 by the end. I'm back down to around 7 or 8 clean right now...
 
Tried muscle ups last week, but couldnt even get one measly rep. :icon_sad: damn!!!

One armed pullup is the most impressive thing i can think of. I have never seen it been performed in my Gym.
 
Lard-ass said:
Tried muscle ups last week, but couldnt even get one measly rep. :icon_sad: damn!!!

One armed pullup is the most impressive thing i can think of. I have never seen it been performed in my Gym.
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my brother has a pullup bar in his door way. I still cant pull a one-hander out, but I getting better at my one handed negatives. (im 185)
 
headstand clap push ups is the most impressive bodyweight exercise I have seen...
 
Brandon MacRea said:
Good post, I love pull-ups and hope to aspire to rEmy-like capabilities (sitting around 32 right now at a lanky 152 pounds).

To the poster who mentioned not having a place to do them, a quick fix is to find any door in your house, cram a towel/book/whatever underneath it, and do them from the top of the door (has to be open of course). The towel/book underneath is so you don't do any unnecessary damage
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Great! A quick fix just like i needed. Now i just got to work on being able to pull myself up. hahaha.
 
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