Chin Ups

[Nemo]

Just a quick question...

I want to be a para

I'm sh!t at chin ups (i can do about 3 - 4)

i've been training down the gym

but can still only manage 3 - 4, even after 2 months

Will this prevent me from any military training

P.S. I'm NOT over weight, eat healthly and get a good 8 hours sleep a night.

Is there any hope for me?

[Gary_amsterdam]

Do lots of chinups, try doing them every 2 hours, and then try and do 1 more every 3 days.

[davo141]

Get your self a pull ups bar and there great there long and silver and you can do pull ups on them and everything

mines a bit wonkey well more like \ but it does the job!

got a new routine

hang for 20 do a pull up, hang for 5 do a pull up hang for 5 so on till you cant manage anymore

i did 4 too day, 3 last week so it must be working hard as i got six on PRMC so keep working!

Davo

[mercury]

I may give that a try tomorrow Davo

Do your arms stretch at all ?

[Guest]

My mate told me a great way, its like saying the words of command and carrying out the action (2-3 is just counting the time, for anyone who has not done drill before )....


Hang on the bar, "DOWN, 2-3, QUATER (up), 2-3, HALF, 2-3, QUATER (up again), 2-3, UP, 2-3, QUATER (down), 2-3, HALF, 2-3, QUATER 2-3, DOWN, 2-3, QUATER (up) etc..."


Hope everyone understands!

It is excellent for Royal Marine POC, as the pullups/situps/pushups are all done on a bleep, so this method is really slow, so when you come to doing them on the faster bleep, they are easy peasy. And if you do them in your own time (i.e. as fast as possible) then it is even easier.

Could try this method with pushups and situps aswell, if you want.


Good luck

James

[matthewl]

Same as Davo says ,buy a chin up bar (about a £8 from Argus!) Put it on your door frame, every time you pass it do some! As James says in trainning you will do them to time ie,PTI says "Up!" (you hold) then "Down!"(hold again) as opposed to doing them to your own time as you speed up the more tired you get.
Matt....

[bigbart]

a few months ago I could do 3. I can now bang out 12, easily. If you can do 3-4, don't burn yourself out doing 4. Do 2, stretch off, pace around the room, do 2 more. Keep doing this until you can't do 2. Then do 1, rest, do 1 again. Do this for a week or two, then move it up to sets of 3. Like someone else said, when you're not at work/school/college/etc. etc. Try doing them every hour. Just do 3 on the hour, every hour. After a while you'll find it easy, then do 4. Keep working up. It worked for me, now I do about 60-100 chin ups every other day. Usually.

[Guest]

Which pullups does everyone do, over or under the bar?

I do over the bar, because they are harder, and you can do about twice the number of under the bar ones once you are good at the over the bar ones.

James

[bigbart]

I do both. But mainly the underhand, as these are the ones you do at RSC. I agree, the overhand ones are harder.

[J J]

the last 2-3 weeks i've been doing 4 every 45 min. but i just can't manage more than 4 in one go

[bigbart]

Try doing 2, take a minutes rest then do 2 more. Do sets of 3. You'll find this easier than doing 4 in one go and burning out, plus you're doing 6 in the end. When you start to find this easy, do sets of 3. work your way up to about 5, then see how many you can do in one go.

[MikeB]

thanks for aswering Nemo's question, im crap at chins too and seem to have found some cracking advice!

[wannabe_bootneck]

I'm also poor at them, but still carrying around some excess fat on me, I'm only nailing about 2 max, but still thats an improvement from 0. At least whilst training with the extra weight, my muscle's are getting more of a pounding, always looking on the brightside!

[Guest]

I find that doing loads of bicep curls with a medium weight dumbell helps ALOT.


James

[bigbart]

Bicep curls will help your underhand grip, as this exercise works biceps. It won't help with overhand grip, though. Any excess fat will be lost as you keep training, and you'll start to find things like pull-ups and push-ups easier. (hope i'm not starting to sound like a know-it-all, it's just that you who are struggling with pull-ups, i've been there.)