One armed pull/chin ups?

If you talkin about straight up one handed pullups without supportin yourself with the other arm by grabbin your wrist, those are real damn hard cuz it's also an issue of balance.

 

Weights in a backpack, why didn't I think of that... Brilliant. I'm gonna look like a right knob heading to the local playground with a backpack

 

:rofl I just wore headphones to keep distractions at a minimum. However, the hot mom's seemed to appreciate the display

 

This is very impressive.[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOVJhXU5Q0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOVJhXU5Q0[/ame]

 

That's the video I thought of when I first seen this thread. It being one handed pull-ups makes it even more impressive for so many reps.

 

I have a problem at the bottom and at the top of the range of motion, I fell fine in the middle (real one handed ones, no wrist support or other hand involved).

I don't think the others count for much where you are really using two hands, the lower you grab your hand, the harder it is. (grab it at the wrist, its easy, hold it with your fingers at the elbow, a bit more work for the one hand).

I don't think I've ever gotten more than 2 legitimate one handed pull ups (only one hand) it is just a lot of strain in my tendons at the bottom of the motion. I always do them with my wrist facing me, like a bicep curl, its all that arm.

 

I'd rather be able to do muscle-ups than one-armed chin/pull ups. Actually, I'd be ****ing ecstatic if I managed to do either.

 

How do you think he should get started? I think probably doing negatives would be good. I would worry about all the strain on the joints at first, if youre not strong enough and try to drop down with one arm you may go very fast and hurt the joints. I think you could start at the top using both hands and loosen the grip with one so you use the other side more than the first and do just the lowering portion to try to isolate one side

 

My plan so far has been to use a mix of concentric, isometric and eccentric pull-ups. My main exercise, which seems to be the most effective so far is to use a step and jump to get my chin above the bar then hold for 10 seconds each at:

chin over bar
chin at bar
mouth
nose
eyes

then gradually ease down to the bottom over the next 10 seconds - making a total of 60 seconds hanging.

I try to do this x3, but haven't managed to do the full minute for the 2nd and 3rd attempt yet.

I mix this up with 5 sets of 3 normal pull-ups and 5 sets of 1 pull up with slow eccentric contraction on alternate sessions (although this will be changing next time as I feel stronger already).

As I said, my initial aim is 15 good normal pull-ups, then 15 weighted (probably with 30 kg). Once I've achieved this I'll see how I go with some controlled, eccentric 1 armed. If I can do those I'll use the same mix of isometric and eccentric to build up the one armed strength.

 

Hope this helps with the muscle up. :good

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QyyvJcySPQ[/ame]

 

I would start him off w staggered chins (using a rope to have one hand lower than the one on the bar) and incorporate static holds for 3-5 seconds and work up to a higher time.

 

Speaking of freakish bodyweight training, I work out at a playground, and around the same time as me, these two middle-aged Chinese guys with funny moustaches and flat caps come along and do the craziest ****, like over 20 one-armed pullups, handstand pushups, insane amounts of muscle-ups. They are pretty small, but how good can a bigger guy get at this sort of stuff? I'm around 100 kg (220 pounds) and am in decent shape right now. Is it even a realistic goal for me to work to to be half as good as them?

 

As with most things, to get good at them you must do them... a lot.

 

That's an excellent vid, cheers mate. Probably the first time I've seen a muscle-up done without swinging into the rep as well. I'll get practising on the lat-pulldown machine :good

 

Exellent video from the same guys as my last post. Very insightful.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lcpHtKmX1E[/ame]