Congradulations Yough!!!!!

**Tough Old Man** · 07-03-2005, 02:40 PM

I'm 52 years old. I've aways been heavy all my life. During the past year of working hard on cable pulldowns and lots of rows I again decided to try what I've never been able to do. That's a wide grip overhand PULLUP with chin going above the bar. I know this doesn't seem much to a lot of you but I was able to do 3 sets of three reps of those pullups. This a something that will now become part of my weekly training. So congratulations Tough.

PT

**TJ Cline** · 07-03-2005, 02:48 PM

**min0 lee** · 07-03-2005, 03:07 PM

Great job dude, keep it up and add some more reps as you get stronger. Hopefully you'll be able to use a chain with weights on your pull ups in the future.

**Tough Old Man** · 07-03-2005, 03:22 PM

Thanks "O"

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Great job dude, keep it up and add some more reps as you get stronger. Hopefully you'll be able to use a chain with weights on your pull ups in the future.

**WATTS** · 07-03-2005, 03:22 PM

great job...overcoming barriers that you havent been able to do in the past! Keep up the training and once again. CONGRATS!

**ABLQ2** · 07-03-2005, 03:59 PM

those are a challange for me, too due to my build. i know the pride youre feeling, it was a big deal for me to do my first pullup too, a few years ago. great job, old man. keep it up!

**P-funk** · 07-03-2005, 07:32 PM

awesome man! 3x3 is not bad at all.

**Tough Old Man** · 07-03-2005, 08:13 PM

Thanks Patrick. No kidding 6 months ago I couldn't get my chin within 6" of the bar. It is my best accomplishment to date. I'm not sure if this is bad and maybe you can rebut it, but i plan everytime i walk into my weight room which is on the way to my bedroom to stop and do how ever many pullups I can do. What do you think Patrick. Good or bad?

Originally Posted by P-funk

awesome man! 3x3 is not bad at all.

**P-funk** · 07-04-2005, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by Tough Old Man

Thanks Patrick. No kidding 6 months ago I couldn't get my chin within 6" of the bar. It is my best accomplishment to date. I'm not sure if this is bad and maybe you can rebut it, but i plan everytime i walk into my weight room which is on the way to my bedroom to stop and do how ever many pullups I can do. What do you think Patrick. Good or bad?

I don't know if it is bad or good. LOL. You would be doing a ton of pull ups everyday that way. Why not figure out different things you can do instead of straigh sets of pull ups to get your pull up number higher. For example:

goal reps- pick a number (say 25) and do as many sets of pull ups as you need to do to get to 25. Even if that means 25 sets of 1. rest as long as you need.

ladders- each set and a rep. Like week 1 would the reps for each sets would be 1-2-3-2-1. Week 3 might then be 1-2-3-4-3-2-1.

Ladders (a different way)- another way I like to do ladders is to pick a rep number to start at and then increase the rest interval for each rep that you do. when you think that you can't go any higher, start working your way down. Here are examples:

Begginers ladder:
set 1- 1 pull up
RI= 10sec
set 2- 2 pull ups
RI= 20sec
set 3- 3 pull ups
RI= 30sec
set 4- 4 pull ups
RI= 40sec
lets say here you feel like you wont get 5 on the next set. Take your 40sec rest and begin down
set 5- 3 pull ups
RI= 30sec
set 6- 2 rull up
RI= 20sec
set 7- 1 pull up

done.

advanced ladder:
set 1- 5 pull ups
RI= 5 sec
set 2- 7 pull ups
RI= 10sec
set 3- 9 pull ups
RI= 15 sec
set 4- 11 pull up
RI= 20sec
set 6- 13 pull up
RI= 25 sec
set 7- 15 pull up
RI= 30sec
then you can work back down etc...

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