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Pull up/Chin ups Challenge 2012?

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  • #122
    PauloConn
    Registered Users Posts: 910 ✭✭✭PauloConn


    I'm hoping that a few weeks of training with CC gets me back into the challenge. Watch this space


  • #123
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    farmchoice wrote: »
    Now what I'm wondering is how this happened, is it simply tequniqe, I practice them they don’t
    I'd say thats a lot to do with it. If I take up any new exercise my figures are pathetic, same if I give up and exercise and take it up again.

    I think a lot of people join gyms and only use expensive equipment to feel they are getting their moneys worth, so are not going to do basic 'cheap' ancient exercises like chinups.

    I remember being in a gym and 2 lads stopped their conversation and were nudging each other looking on when I started doing chins on a squat rack, it was knurled and meant for it but I was guessing they rarely saw people use it before.


  • #124
    Duck's hoop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭Duck's hoop


    I doubt technique has that much to do with it . Chins is a simple, uncomplicated movement, relatively speaking. Grab bar, pull it. I hadn't done any for years up to 12 or so months ago and I knocked out 7 right off. Yes, dead hang.

    It's power to weight. Ripped or no, you're stronger on that movement than them. Credit where it's due.


  • #125
    Funk It
    Registered Users Posts: 663 ✭✭✭Funk It


    I have got a new love of pull ups and chin ups.

    I used to do a good bit of chin ups in supersets with the bench years ago (8 chin ups for each set), but hadn't done them in ages. So when I found an outdoor gym recently along my running route, I started popping in maybe twice on a run (outgoing and return), I go about twice a week.

    I was never able to get more than a few pull ups before, but managed 9 solid pull ups on my first go, so was over the moon with that and kept plugging away with more sets.

    They really are great exercises. Give me time until I can add any extra weight like the rest of ye, but I could do with losing a bit more weight first, so should up the number of body weight pull/chin ups.


  • #126
    AntiVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,395 ✭✭✭AntiVirus


    Duck's hoop wrote: »
    I doubt technique has that much to do with it .

    Technique has a lot to do with it. Correting some one with poor technique will actually drop the number of chin ups they can do when they learn to do them correctly. The biggest mistakes you'll often see are people swinging their legs about to help do more chin ups and the next is not fully extending there arms and then not lifting high enough.


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  • #127
    Duck's hoop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭Duck's hoop


    AntiVirus wrote: »
    Technique has a lot to do with it. Correting some one with poor technique will actually drop the number of chin ups they can do when they learn to do them correctly.

    So technique is not why the other guys could do less chins. Exactly my point.

    Doesn't take very long to 'learn' full, dead hang ROM.

    It's not a technical movement.


  • #128
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 39,001 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Where they a lot bigger than you. It's not uncommon to see a small guy able to do more chins than a guy who is stronger but bigger.

    It could also be something as simple as the grip used. if they were overhand and you were under hand, you aren't doing comparable movements.

    or maybe you're just better


  • #129
    AntiVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,395 ✭✭✭AntiVirus


    Duck's hoop wrote: »
    So technique is not why the other guys could do less chins. Exactly my point.

    Who said anything was wrong with there technique. It could be the OP with the poor technique.

    Anyway my post was explaining that technique does make a difference when it comes to doing chin ups.


  • #130
    farmchoice
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭farmchoice


    Mellor wrote: »
    Where they a lot bigger than you. It's not uncommon to see a small guy able to do more chins than a guy who is stronger but bigger.

    It could also be something as simple as the grip used. if they were overhand and you were under hand, you aren't doing comparable movements.

    or maybe you're just better

    We were all using the same grip, underhand chin up grip. some were heavier then me I'd say but not very much so, most around the same weight at least reletive to height.

    Having read all the replies I have 2 thoughts on the matter.

    1. I feel very good about myself!!

    2. The comment about being warmed up more then usual. I tend to do chin ups as part of a warm up. They are often the first thing I do. On this occasion I had done an extensive warm up including a lot of dynamic stretches and core work, planks ECT. I think this had an impact on the high number (for me) that I managed.


  • #131
    Michael 09
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Michael 09


    You could also have just been motivated to perform in competition/in front of an audience?


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  • #132
    Sangre
    Registered Users Posts: 12,151 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Tried this for first time. Managed 15 dead hang pull ups at 80kg. Grip slightly wider than shoulder length apart.

    Suppose I should aim for 20 then!


  • #133
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,723 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    I have gone from a max 5 to 9 chin ups, body weight in 3/4 weeks. (I don't know my own bodyweight at the moment)

    Negatives have definitely helped me
    As did adding weight 5kg and 10kg

    how is anyone else getting on?


  • #134
    Ant11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,433 ✭✭✭Ant11


    Only came across this thread tonight. Last tested 5 weeks ago 20 max chin ups and 12 pull ups @ 80kg BW. re-testing in few weeks so hoping to make improvements.

    Any ideas for weighted chins/pulls for someone who has no dipping belt? I tried to hold the weight between my feet but too awkward.


  • #135
    JoeyDoh
    Registered Users Posts: 291 ✭✭JoeyDoh


    15 chin Ups @91kg BW and 5 pull-ups with 20kg attached.


  • #136
    Mickk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭Mickk


    I've done 35 wide grip before but don't have it on film, I touch my chin off the bar but I don't get my head over the bar, was about 92kg in this vid

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SB_sOxIHOU


  • #137
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,723 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    I always get my chin over the bar and add in a small pause.
    Don't count it otherwise.

    I'm hoping to do a muscle-up someday!


  • #138
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,723 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    how are people getting on?

    I'm up to 10 bodyweight chin ups (75kg), consistently.
    I get 6 with 10kg added.

    any advice for me.


  • #139
    farmchoice
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭farmchoice


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    how are people getting on?

    I'm up to 10 bodyweight chin ups (75kg), consistently.
    I get 6 with 10kg added.

    any advice for me.

    dont stop. i was up to 15 tops and 10 consistently. then for one reason or another i more or less stopped doing them for about a month. i was doing plenty of other stuff just not chin ups.

    i went back at it on saturday and really struggled to get 8.


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