Why am I so bad to pull ups?

[Mad Dog162]

Stats: 6'1. 200lbs, 14-16% body fat.

Finished playing college football last February, took a few months to focus on finishing my degree and do well at my internship.

Finally got back in the gym the past week, and been doing Chad Waterbury's "Anti Body Building Hypertrophy I".

I've always been weak at chin-ups and pull-ups, my personal best is 8 reps. Today, I was due to 10 sets of 4 reps with 5kg plate attached, and I couldn't get anywhere close to it, I had to switch to negatives after two sets.

Anyone know what's up? Any suggestions for exercises that I should do to improve? I work out at home, so I'm limited to exercises you can do with a squat rack, dipping station and dumb bells.

[canuckinfuts]

They're hard man. Body weight exercises are underrated and very effective. Just keep at it.

[Starless]

Stats: 6'1. 200lbs, 14-16% body fat.

Finished playing college football last February, took a few months to focus on finishing my degree and do well at my internship.

Finally got back in the gym the past week, and been doing Chad Waterbury's "Anti Body Building Hypertrophy I".

I've always been weak at chin-ups and pull-ups, my personal best is 8 reps. Today, I was due to 10 sets of 4 reps with 5kg plate attached, and I couldn't get anywhere close to it, I had to switch to negatives after two sets.

Anyone know what's up? Any suggestions for exercises that I should do to improve? I work out at home, so I'm limited to exercises you can do with a squat rack, dipping station and dumb bells.

Try this, my post. http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=127469833

[AdamDTX]

lat pull downs. do them.

[jake1224]

if you're 6'1 200 @ 15%, and you can't do pull-ups, something is wrong or you're not 15%. The best solution to getting good at pull-ups is doing pull-ups, though.

[john197030]

Stats: 6'1. 200lbs, 14-16% body fat.

Finished playing college football last February, took a few months to focus on finishing my degree and do well at my internship.

Finally got back in the gym the past week, and been doing Chad Waterbury's "Anti Body Building Hypertrophy I".

I've always been weak at chin-ups and pull-ups, my personal best is 8 reps. Today, I was due to 10 sets of 4 reps with 5kg plate attached, and I couldn't get anywhere close to it, I had to switch to negatives after two sets.

Anyone know what's up? Any suggestions for exercises that I should do to improve? I work out at home, so I'm limited to exercises you can do with a squat rack, dipping station and dumb bells.

I suck at them too. I've been getting better by adding weight when I do them. Then take the extra weight off for the last set and watch how much easier they are. Add weight!

[kwhitte]

You have a weak back for you size. Chinup and pull ups rely on a lot of back strength mainly lats, and upper back muscles. I suggest doing pyramids rather then sets. Pyramid up, and pyramid down. Do this everyday two times. I promise you will see results in 3-4 weeks. I used to do 35 - 40 pulls up. Right now I can do around 30 because I havent been hitting them. Pull ups also gave me massive lats for my build.

[guest89]

Here's what I would do.


If you can do 8 pullups as a max, on day one do 4 sets of 4 pullups. Day 2 do 4 sets of 5 pull ups. Day 3 do 4 sets of 6 pullups. Day 4 do 4 sets of 7 pullups, etc.


And just do them every other day.


I have no idea if this will work for you, but this sort of thing definitely works with me on BW exercises.