[PWR1982]

alright thanks for the tips, Im not joining corps, but I figured that I should always work on my weak spots. And if I compare the number of pullups I can do to pushups/jump squats/crunches ... its not very even.

[DeadMeat]

Hehe don't compare apples and oranges, I litterally can do ten times as many pushups as pullups.

[Cactot]

Hugely depends on your build, tall/heavy (or worse, both) people typically have a far harder time doing pull ups than short or light people.

Here are some other tricks if its hard for you to improve your pull ups:
1. Try using chalk, sounds weird but it helps 100% for me. Increased grip on what otherwise would be an oily/slippery bar (especially if your gym has chrome plated POS pull up bars) is a godsend.

2. Try weighted pull ups, if you can do sets of 5 with +2.5/5 lbs, then increase that by another +2.5/5lbs per week, pretty soon your body weight pull ups are going to go through the roof.

3. Lose weight, as stupidly obvious as this is, if you have extra body fat on your frame (anything over 8%), you are not at your optimum strength to weight ratio, and losing weight will make a big difference on pull ups.

[Dao Jones]

80 every second day sounds like overtraining to me. I do 3-4 sets to failure every other day. When I can't do any more pullups I drag my icechest over and use a leg assist to pop a few more. Might be worth a shot.

[tahoe]

Dude check out t-mag.com and put pullups in the search engine, there are tons of great articles.

[Blomy]

Train Pull ups 3 - 4 times a week but try different methods every day.

One day weighted pull ups do quality sets I mean go heavy but stop 1-2 reps before failure,this way you will improve your strength a lot faster.
One day 100 pull ups all day I mean do every half an hour 5 pull ups until you reach 100
One day do pyramids 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 or even more.here you do 1 rest for 10 sec or more then 2 and e.t.c. you do this until you achieve your maximum number and then go down.try to stop about 1 rep before failure,I mean if you find it difficult to complete 5 reps do not go to 6 do 4-3-2-1.
One day Ladders 1-2-3-4-5 1-2-3-4-5 1-2-3-4-5 same as pyramids but this time you only go up to your max for three or more times.
20 minute System do 5 pull ups every minute for 20 minute.This will become more and more difficult as you approach the 20 minute mark.

there are many ways to skin the cat.Follow my advice and you'll notice amazing improvement.

Be sure to get plenty of rest,good quality food,lots of greens and drink a lot of water.

Last by not least try to do pull ups every other day,if you feel sore you better rest.Be smart and creative I mean if today you do weighted pull ups the day after tomorrow do the 100 pull ups
over the course of the day.I mean train your self to improve not to wear him out.You have to feel energetic every day,not bored.

Hope this helped.I am sure within 1 month you'll notice amazing improvements.Please let me know I f you need to ask something.

[rEdShawks]

Originally Posted by Dao Jones

80 every second day sounds like overtraining to me. I do 3-4 sets to failure every other day. When I can't do any more pullups I drag my icechest over and use a leg assist to pop a few more. Might be worth a shot.

does anyone agree about the overtraining thing?

[Cactot]

Originally Posted by rEdShawks

does anyone agree about the overtraining thing?

It would depend on how many you can do initially. If you can do under 13 or so, you need to be working on strength development and this program would be a very bad idea (IMHO), if you can do more than that you will be working on muscular endurance, in which case your muscles could probably handle it and it might work for you. Let me try and use another example.

Imagine it was squats (just because everybody knows how obvious it is when you overdo it with squats) you were doing instead of pull ups, imagine how overworked (and frickin sore) your muscles would be if you did 80 reps of 90-95% of your 1rm (which would be your 2-3 rep max). (I would be willing to bet you couldn't even do that many in one day) You most likely would not even be able to walk for comfortably for 3-5 days. As you can imagine, this would be a terribly sub-optimal training method because of acute over training.

If you dropped that weight to 60-70% (which would be your 12-15 rep max) you would most likely be able to do it without any terrible repercussions, and you would likely develop some good muscular endurance relatively quickly with the program.

Make sense?