I want to be able to do more pullups. They are already in my routine.
I can do 5 in the first set afterwards it goes down slowly. I am adding reps every week.
Should I keep doing as many as I can or should I stop before failure?
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I want to be able to do more pullups. They are already in my routine.
I can do 5 in the first set afterwards it goes down slowly. I am adding reps every week.
Should I keep doing as many as I can or should I stop before failure?
[QUOTE=sjambo;1010721303]I want to be able to do more pullups. They are already in my routine.
I can do 5 in the first set afterwards it goes down slowly. I am adding reps every week.
Should I keep doing as many as I can or should I stop before failure?[/QUOTE]
if your primary goal is pullup strength over mass gain, then i reccomend lowering the reps to maybe 3 ( still bw ) and smashing out more sets than usual, despite what some people think, volume > intensity for me, might help you aswell, also you can do pullups everyday if it really is #1 priority, but i wouldnt reccommend it. but usually is you want to get better at something, do it more. works for everything
Never train pullups (or any bodyweight lift) to failure if you're doing more than one set.
[QUOTE=sjambo;1010721303]I want to be able to do more pullups. They are already in my routine.
I can do 5 in the first set afterwards it goes down slowly. I am adding reps every week.
Should I keep doing as many as I can or should I stop before failure?[/QUOTE]
if your primary goal is pullup strength over mass gain, then i reccomend lowering the reps to maybe 3 ( still bw ) and smashing out more sets than usual, despite what some people think, volume > intensity for me, might help you aswell, also you can do pullups everyday if it really is #1 priority, but i wouldnt reccommend it. but usually is you want to get better at something, do it more. works for everything
Doing any exercise to failure is a useful tool if not abused. Doing every set you're going to completely zap your muscles and your central nervous system will be like what the **** are you doing man?
Throw in some sets to failure every few workouts I would say and you will see gains.
Would like to know this too. Just started doing pullups today, I did 1 set to failure then just did the negative portion really slowly for 2 sets of 12 afterwards. No idea how I should actually go about it though in order to be able to do more reps.