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Cheers for the help lads,

Ill give these ideas a go - ive been ignoring pull ups until now, because its easier to do that than attempt them haha. But guess i gotta some time.

Im also going to try some lat pull down and some dumbell rows in the gym because apparantly these help as well!


Ill let you know what i get to work so others in my situation can start somewhere.

i find that the best way to do them is to dead hang for two to three seconds then pullup chin ove the bar. Then hold for another 3 seconds, then under control drop yourself to a dead hang again. By doing this you are able to build up the muscles throughout a long period of time whilst doing chinups.

I speak from experiance with this one. IT DEFINETLY WORKS.

On prmc they will make you hang from the bar and hold yourself up i was told, so its also a good drill.

All good advice here.

Another good training method I use (not just for pull ups), is to set yourself a target total - say 20 pull ups (or whatever is good for you).
Try do do them in as few sets as possible - say 5 sets of 4 reps wiht 30-60secs rest between each set. As you get better try and lower the amount of sets you do - 4 sets of 5 reps. Keep doing it in this way until you are banging out 10 in each set, then increase your total / decrease your rest periods to add to the stamina building.

NEW MACHINE

The gym has a new machine which allows you to do assisted pull ups / dips. You just adjust the weight like other weights machines and it takes that much off.

Example - You stand on a platform which lifts weights (the more weights the more it lifts) so when you do a pullup you only pull up the bodyweight minus that on the weights - If you weight 80Kg and the weights are set at 20Kg then you actually only lift 60Kg of body mass!!

Its wicked! Great for cranking out those first ones till you build the muscle needed to go it solo.

That does sounds rather decent, but it wouldnt be of any use to people training for marines, i agree, good to begineers, but i feel its better to learn the hard way instead of using a machine to assist you.

When i couldnt do one chinup id do a half negative chinup. This is great for beginners and is hard! Beginners just jump so your already into the half chinup position with your chin above the bar, then let yourself down slowly over a period of 6 - 10 seconds. It will increase your strenth and you dont need to use the effort to get up there to begin with.

I do one full negative chinup at the end of every pre prmc workout just to get that little bit extra in. Obviously a full negative chinup is raising yourself slowly up to the chin bar, holding 2 -3 seconds then slowly coming back down to ground over 6 - 10 seconds, all chinups MUST be done from a dead hang, cant put this point across enough!!!

I don't know why, but I seem to have a natural ability to do pull ups which include a 4 second dead hang and hold for 4 seconds at the top. I'm doing 3 sets of 10 at the gym everytime I go now. I think its from my childhood of climbing on things

Its just the damn pushups highest I can get in one go is 40.

3 sets of 10 chinups with 4 seconds dead hang and climb. Thats awsome, they are marine chins aint they?Its funny, my chins and pushups are excellant along with situps but my damn running is the problem. Mike your chins are awsome mate id concentrate big time on your pushups since you havea natural strenth ability, work on them pushups and you will be cracking out 100 in two minutes, im 100% certain!!

Keep up the very good work mike!