chin ups

[mrRuckus]

When you're doing them with palms facing you that's a pullup. Progression is harder on chin ups but if you practice both of them your numbers will increase.

Palms out is a pullup.




Can one even do an explosive pullup if one can only do 6?

 

[int3l]

Naaah, it's 5' 7 1/2" , still short though since average is 5' 10".

lol, oh well~ i'll get surgery done to increade my height if it makes u hsppy, lol.

 

[spesmilitis]

I see, when you said explosive pull ups, I thought you literally meant explosive pull ups.

you mean Slow coming down (abduction) and Fast coming up (adduction).

As fast as you can coming up, using the upper body only. Look into 43 seconds of this clip to see what I mean. http://youtube.com/watch?v=RREGFOZoZTk

Be controlled when going down. Don't free fall going down, but don't go slower than you have to. Maybe going slow will help with hypertrophy, I think going very slow on negatives is a trick a lot of bodybuilders use. I haven't heard of this trick on the applications of strength though.

Can one even do an explosive pullup if one can only do 6?

I think so. Even when I do 70lbs of weight (where I can only do 6-7 reps), I feel that I have to explode from the bottom. As if I am trying to prevent acceleration as much as I can by going at my max speed from the start. But, some acceleration does occur, esp near the top.

 

[Fuglydude]

How many sets do you normally do?

I do pullups on my chest/back day.

usually 3 sets.

- get 15-20 on set 1
- only 10-12 on set 2 and 3 because of fatigue.

Sometimes I'll add a weight, but haven't done this in a while.