Pullups

[doctoroxygen]

Is there a more beautiful exercise than the pullup? This thread is nothing more than a tribute to the simple chin.

 

[check_mate_kid_uk]

They certainly are good, thou for some reason i dont incldue them in my workout very often.

Have oyu tried doing pullups with your hands close together and your palms faceing you.

 

[Dee-Zy]

I hate pullups

Cable flys used to be my fav.

 

[check_mate_kid_uk]

well dee, according to your sig, im wrong if i disagree with you

how do we know that you didnt stop being a god like figure at some point in the last 5 years?

 

[doctoroxygen]

I do pullups on everything. On the bar in my closet, on holds at the rock wall, on rafters at Safeco Field, hanging from railings..

I love the pullup.

 

[Dee-Zy]

well dee, according to your sig, im wrong if i disagree with you

how do we know that you didnt stop being a god like figure at some point in the last 5 years?

oh I did, that's why I have that in my sig to boost my ego up.

 

[mrRuckus]

I can't manage to actually get much better at them. I increase on everything but them.

 

[seanchai]

I can't manage to actually get much better at them. I increase on everything but them.

Do you have a bar at home? There's a technique called "greasing the groove" that can help a lot. Let's say you can do five max. Every time you walk by the bar in your house, do two or three easy. Since you never get tired, you can do as many as a hundred a day like this. Some people have doubled their max in a week or two doing this. I went from not being able to do any one-legged squats to two or three with each leg by greasing the groove.

Pavel Tsatsouline's "Naked Warrior" covers this well.

 

[Potbelly]

greasing the groove...good idea man. Anywhere I see a bar I'll do some.

 

[Brian20o2]

Good idea. Ima Grease the grove too... Sounds funny.

 

[Skilla_Staz]

Is there a more beautiful exercise than the pullup? This thread is nothing more than a tribute to the simple chin.

Yes. The Squat. The Deadlift. A chick with a banging ass and sexy legs doing straight legged deadlifts. IMO anyways.

Don't you agree?:trouble:

 

[MrS]

For the record, pullups are with the palm facing away, chinups are with the palms facing you.

 

[[S]alvatore]

For the record, pullups are with the palm facing away, chinups are with the palms facing you.

Other way around.

 

[Create Reality]

Other way around.

Hey fool you're hella stupid. He was right. CHINUPS PALMS IN. Pullups palms out.

 

[[S]alvatore]

Wide grip chin-ups with palms facing out? What category would that fall under with your logic?

 

[Create Reality]

Wide Grip Chin Ups??? It's Wide Grip PULL UPS. I've never heard such poppycock!

 

[[S]alvatore]

http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/m_27107/mpage_1/key_frankie%2Cmass%2Cbuilding/tm.htm#27107

Workout 2, 4th exercise down. This guy has been training for more than 10 years, now are you going to tell me it's poppycock? Bottom line, who gives a fu<k whether they're called chin-ups or pull-ups?