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Post by kaiser on Nov 30, 2006 17:54:24 GMT
What started at work as a simple challenge has now grown arms,legs and horns. Mulitiple participants, a leaderboard and a handicap challange have all materialised.
So my questions is what is the best way to increase pull up power? The simple doing as many as I can every day has not reaped the benefits I stupidly presumed it would.
Any ideas for this utterly pointless endeavor?
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whisk
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Post by whisk on Nov 30, 2006 18:10:00 GMT
Try losing weight?
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Post by kaiser on Nov 30, 2006 19:31:27 GMT
Hmm yes this was the other arm of my pincer movement. I foresee myself losing around a stone over the festive period  |
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Post by triskele on Nov 30, 2006 19:41:07 GMT
Supinated or pronated?
Pronated: Lats come more into play.
Supinated: Biceps come into play;
Well, both are going to bring the back, shoulder and chest into play, but pronated, and with a wider grip, are great for an all round back workout. I like to superset them with dips on my weight-training days.
From experience I've found I can't swim for toffee after these (upper body getting very tired in the water) and try and keep them for separate days from any decent swimming I'm attempting.
And I do all mine on a assisted machine - I can do about one otherwise!
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towel
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Post by towel on Nov 30, 2006 20:13:41 GMT
Kaiser, how many can you do now then i can tell you how best to train for them.
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Post by kaiser on Nov 30, 2006 20:30:02 GMT
Kaiser, how many can you do now then i can tell you how best to train for them. # 15 with palms facing me(supinated?) and about 9ish from hanging from the bar to chest on bar and back to hanging. |
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Post by robertquantrell on Nov 30, 2006 20:53:49 GMT
Lose weight, I climb quite a bit and chins are an essential part of the training, the biggest leap in chin ability comes from losing weight,
Having said that, when i get stuck in a rut with chins, i find doing some relatively heavy weighted chins (bringing the reps down to 3-5) helps with the power and more moderate weight on the Latpulldown machine helps with the reps,
Also work the biceps hard, chins work the biceps quite a bit, esp if you are not using straps, so be strong on your curls...
hth,
Rob
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towel
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Post by towel on Nov 30, 2006 21:58:12 GMT
Ok Kaiser, here is your deal.
Start off doing sets of 7 with 1 min rest and aim to get 50 reps in total. If you reach 7 then stop. When you fatigue and fail at 4 or 5 then still keep taking the minute rest until you do 50. Every session, progress to doing 5 more reps.
Its important with any muscular endurance training that you do the reps quickly but do not go to exhaustion on the first few sets. Its more the number of sets that gets the results than the number of maximal reps.
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Post by triskele on Dec 1, 2006 4:28:28 GMT
If you after muscular endurance then the Towel is the advice to go for. Going slow will stress you in a different way (there is a mode of thought in bodybuilding that going slow equals slow twitch and hypertrophy) - I believe this is the same thought behindgoing quick and getting the sets in versus going to exhaustion.
Palms facing =suppinated [quick way to remember hand position: sup=(palms)up, prone=(palms)down - you sup up, but fall prone down]
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