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How many do this in a Back workout?

Do you do pull-ups as part of your workout?

  • Yes, everytime I work my back

    Votes: 44 55.7%

  • Yes, although I vary my workouts.

    Votes: 30 38.0%

  • No, never have never will

    Votes: 5 6.3%
  • Total voters
    79
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uNOwho

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How many of you incorporate pull-ups in your back workout? i did them with a trainer at my gym yesterday, for the first real time in my life...holy shit was i amazed! I could barely hit 50! I did 35 with his help on the last 10 and I was hurting, but I pushed out the last 15 on my own at the end of my workout. I must say, I have a new set to put in my routine. 50 pull-ups as the start to my back day.

How many of you do them? and how many?

~p~
 
You could barely hit 50 huh!!! Looks like you did 25 and then got some help.
If you can do that many you should be adding weight around your waist. You wont find many people here who dont add more weight as soon as they can do 12 reps.
To answer your question.....I dont do them.

uNOwho said:
How many of you incorporate pull-ups in your back workout? i did them with a trainer at my gym yesterday, for the first real time in my life...holy shit was i amazed! I could barely hit 50! I did 35 with his help on the last 10 and I was hurting, but I pushed out the last 15 on my own at the end of my workout. I must say, I have a new set to put in my routine. 50 pull-ups as the start to my back day.

How many of you do them? and how many?

~p~
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as soon as you can do them unassisted then go out and buy some hook gloves so you can throw on lots of weight.
 
as soon as you can do them unassisted then go out and buy some hook gloves so you can throw on lots of weight.
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haha, you mean a belt. Adding weight up top won't do much for pullups.:D
 
yeah i do em in the beginning of my back workouts. good for stretching out the lats as well. i do em wide grip palms facing away style.
 
well seeing as how this was the first time i've done them since grade school, i wasn't really sure how they should be done...not the method in how they should be done, rather how many and with or without weight. i did them palms out and a little wider than shoulder width apart. i didn't jump for *edit - from* any bench, i went to full extension and pulled up to just about 2 inches from my chest...and yeah about the 28th one i had help to get them cranked out....my goal is to get 5 sets of 10 done without help and then i'll add some weight. shit right now doing body weight is more than what i thought i could handle...did that make sense? ahh, who knows...working fries the brain!

~p~
 
okay that makes more sense you are striving for 5x10 not 50 all in one shot, i must have misunderstood you. 50 in one go i think that you would be the next candidate for a super hero. I usually do 4 sets with 25lbs on a belt for 10 8 8 6. Very strict form and a fairly wide grip.
 
Cure said:


haha, you mean a belt. Adding weight up top won't do much for pullups.:D
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No, he meant hook gloves. That way you can hold onto the bar while having a lot of weight around your waist on a belt. Of course, I think the gloves is a terrible idea. All lifts should be done hook gloves/strapless. Otherwise, you'll develop skinny, worthless forearms and poor grip strength. I can say this from personal experience. I used to use straps all of the time. Well, then I noticed that my forearms sucked, so I stopped using them. Then I couldn't hold any weight, though. But I sucked it up. I guess this was about a year ago. Well, when I first stopped using them I could barely hold 315 for more'n 2-3 reps on deadlifts without setting the weight down. Now, I can hold 495 for 6 no problems with grip at all.
 
Every Back Workout

i do my chins for my back 2 -3 times a week as for the thickness i only do it once a week.

you think that is heaps try doing 50 wide grip ones then another 50 close grip as the first part of your back workout.

in your next back session, you do 50 close reverse chins then followed by another 50 chins with the low pulley bar hooked over the chinup bar.

sometimes i add weight for. always remember to go fully down and all the way up.

This might seem heaps but its not really cause your stretching your back muscle and if you want to have the biggest broadest V shaped back you need to do chins serveral times a week or it will go back to a pigeon chest.

By the way im all natural and this is the only muscle i will hit twice or more a week. Everything else only once.
 
by the reverse chins you are referring to palm in?

and also the "low pulley bar" which one is that? is that the condensed version of the ez curl bar? i've done the ones with the close grip pulldown aparatus...the one that is the shape of a triangle with the palms facing in toward's each other. i've put that over the chin up bar and alternated which way my head went up so i wouldn't smack the shit out of my head...did that once, and holy shit did that hurt!

~p~
 
LOL! Thanks for clearing that up, i was reading this thinking to myself "holy shit, this guy is either super strong or hes like 110lbs..." hehe, 50 pullups. i was waiting for you to say "yea, i only do 4 sets of 50 though" but 5x10, is more believable..and not so super hero...hah. just messin man. yea, i do them as a warmup. i do like 2 or 3 sets of 15. good luck. they are really good to do.


-max
 
reverse chins - palms facing opposite
the low pulley bar is the one exactly the one you mentioned.

These are excellent and your chins will go through teh roof in a couple of weeks.
 
I do reverse chins with 90 lbs attached at the start of every back workout. Seems like it takes a lot of energy, that why, I do them first.
 
I do Military presses for 2 weeks, behind neck presses, then switch to weighted pullups, it gets the negitive and positive aspect of your back, ie: push/pull.

good stuff!
 
i start back workout with a couple sets of pullups. i usually go palms towards and vary the grip width.

i bought a belt the other day so i can start doing weighted pullups and especially dips !! im fucking pumped !
 
i have done 25 before in HS, but i weighed about 115.. and it was right from the start.. i wanted to beat the record which for my age was 27, but the school record was 36.. i wonder what that guy looked like...:confused:

i do pullups last in my back routine.. and get 3 sets of 10,8,8 or 10,8,6 something like that.. its harder that the end.. but oh well:)
 
When I was in 6th grade (!!) I saw a kid do 49 pullups, in a row. I shit you not. He was like 4'6" and ripped beyond belief. It was crazy, he just gave a little jerk and his chin flew up to above the bar. Then he'd just fall back to start position, and give another jerk. His 49-rep set probably took under 30 seconds. It just blew my mind.

-casualbb
 
Charles Poliquin says pull-ups are the back's squat. They've been a big part of my routine for a while now.

I use four variations:
1. Wide-grip pull-ups (pronated grip)
2. Medium-grip pull-ups (pronated grip)
3. Medium-grip chin-ups (supinated grip)
4. Close-grip chin-ups (supinated grip)
 
I suck at them, but i've been working on them. Problem is as i get stronger on them, my bodyweight keeps goin up, so i can never seem to do a whole lot more reps...
 
collegiateLifter said:
I suck at them, but i've been working on them. Problem is as i get stronger on them, my bodyweight keeps goin up, so i can never seem to do a whole lot more reps...
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That's not a bad thing. If your weight is going up consistently and your reps are staying fairly constant, then you are actually making progress. Its all relative.
 
of ALL exercises, it is the pull ups that are so often done with improper form.

i can probably do 50 pullups improperly. my biceps and forearms will work harder than ever.

done correctly using back, rear delt, traps, and biceps, i can maybe complete 10.

FORM FORM FORM
 
I do some variation of a pullup every back workout. On strength days, I use weight; on hypertrophy days, I just go for reps, with a nice long stretch at the bottom. I love pullups! My favorite is wide with a neutral grip - it really hits the lats!
 
I do pull ups every back workout (wide grip-palms out). I recently started working out with an old friend who weighs a paltry 135-140lbs and he is currently achieving some serious gains since he has never lifted before (I miss that period!!). Although he says he HATES pull-ups he grudgingly admits that he's had some of his best results and increases with the pull-ups.

When we started a couple of months ago he could get maybe 2 reps off on a wide grip-max! Yesterday I watched him start to fail late in his 4th set!! (I have him on a 5X5 program-when he gets 5X5 on the WGPU we'll add some plates on a belt).

Myself I've been trying to slowly widen my grip as wide as possible rather than add weight on a belt (increase difficulty by adding 2-3 inches on my grip next time). So far I think I'm still getting some gains and I'm still sore. I'm going to have to go to a belt soon though or grow longer arms!!!

I pretty much dropped the lat pulldowns for a while but just to try and hit my lower lats, I'm going to add a couple of heavy sets of 8-10 after my WGPUs. My back is wider than any point in my life right now - I believe as a result of the WGPUs!

O.K. that's my 2 cents.
 
must admit thought 50 first time i have done them fucking hell you strong boy, glad i read on and you were doing 5x10.

I have also just started do them in my HST routine so was doing 2 x 10 but am now doing 3 x 5 but adding quite a bit of weight and yes i agree they are excellent.

also depends how much you weigh ha ha
 
Beginning of workout:: Wide grip(widest possible), three sets of 10-12 (should add weight to do less I think , but I am cheap)

Last set:: Normal (about shoulder) grip, 2 sets of burnout (usually can only hit like 8-10--rows are killer)

Pull ups are golden.
 
i have some really good pull up workouts i do. i will post them in about 2 hours or so when i get back from gym, i'm running behind. time to go eat some fuckign iron!!!!!!!!!!! but i will post the workouts when i return...
diced
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dicedgunz said:
i have some really good pull up workouts i do. i will post them in about 2 hours or so when i get back from gym, i'm running behind. time to go eat some fuckign iron!!!!!!!!!!! but i will post the workouts when i return...
diced
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here are some good pull up workouts i do..

differant grips
-regular
-reverse
-close grip
-wide grip
-mountain climbers

exercises and pyramid


5x 2,4,6,8 reps of each
-regualr
-close
-reverse
-wide
-mountain climber
100 pull ups total

or a pyramid as follows

10(10 on way up pyramid and 10 on way down)
8 8
6 6
4 4
2 2

or you can start pyramid at 1 and go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 up and down each side or pyramid for reps

let me know if anyone trys these and likes them. i think they are great.
pull ups are my favorite exercise anyway


diced
 
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