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post #31 of 35
8/17/11 at 1:37pm
Your muscles have gotten really good at pullupping your bodyweight, so...add more!

Weight belt, backpack, something. Volume will only get you so far.
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post #32 of 35
8/17/11 at 1:44pm
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Originally Posted by graymerica View Post

get some long bungie cords and stand on them. Make a loop under your pull up bar. Then you can switch them out as you need to get more reps

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post #33 of 35
8/27/11 at 4:44pm

I found that bent over rows/yates rows, power cleans and deadlifts helps increase my chin ups.

 

Most people aren't fully activating their back muscles when doing chin ups, most of the work is done by their arms. Doing yates rows with lighter weights and completely focusing on lat activation helped me immensely.

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post #34 of 35
8/28/11 at 12:15pm
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Originally Posted by Kerrick View Post

Your muscles have gotten really good at pullupping your bodyweight, so...add more!

Weight belt, backpack, something. Volume will only get you so far.

Started doing this this past week, so will see how it goes. Went from doing 8x neutral grip and 6x overhand grip at body weight to 6x and 5x with body weight +10 so will keep doing that and upping the weight a bit, then go back to body weight only and see what the difference is. Been doing this for pushups too.
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post #35 of 35
9/4/11 at 2:56pm
I second the grease the groove rec mentioned above.

Get a door pull-up bar and basically do 3 every hour on the hour for 8-10 hours a day.
After a week - increase by 1 to 4 every hour.
Continue increasing.

Just a way to get massive volume with fairly low time commitment.

As far as bands - you can just use iron woody bands to do pull-ups on. Or just do a bunch of unassisted and run over to the assist machine or lat pull and squeeze out some more volume that way.
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