Well I am a small guy which gives me an advantage when doing bodyweight exercises. I doubt in the last 4 years there has been a period longer than a couple of weeks where I have not done pullups at least once per week. I also train for strength not size, heavy weights low reps. I would suggest weighted pull ups I noted a big difference and improvement in my overall max once I started adding resisatnce. The problem I have now when doing weighted pullups is I can't add more weight because the grip on my left hand goes on the last set, I could do more reps but my grip isn't strong enough, need to work on that.
There's a muscle-up tutorial on beastskills.com - http://beastskills.com/MuscleUp.htm Here's a one arm muscle-up, it's not too pretty but still ****ing impressive [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj48SlxgU1Q[/ame]
I have far more respect for people who can do **** like that than I do for bodybuilders and powerlifters. That's not saying much, but those muscle ups look insane
Damn thats impressive, I thought muscle ups were tough but 1 arm! That along with planche pushups is something I'd love to be able to do.
Yep clearly it takes a lot of dedication. I once started a training to do planche pushups I got to the 2nd stage where I could quite easily support my bodyweight with legs tucked up to my chest ended up ****ing wrist up for about 2 months. Will probably try again sometime but take it more slowly.
yeh I gave progressions towards a planche a go a couple of yrs ago myself and was typically immature and impatient with it, if I give it a go again gonna be sure to take it really slowly.
What do you use for the weighted pullups? I've tried putting weights in a backpack before but it's really uncomfortable. I was looking at weighted vests but they're about a hundred quid, so **** that.
I use a back pack it was very uncomfortable at first but I got used to it. I then got a dipping belt to go with it once I could not fit anymore weights in the back pack. I would love to buy a weighted vest but can't really justify the cost.
i can manage 10 proper form pull ups, getting too 30 would be a huge achievment, will probably start doing towel pull ups that should help with building strength up
:good I read about it and struggled to understand what the **** the bloke was on about. That's a great picture, cheers.
