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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Chicago
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Frequency of Pullups
I was curious how many days a week can someone do pullups and still be beneficial....Avoid overtrainging I guess you could say....How offten do people in the service do them? Every other day..Every three days?
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Earth
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I do chins every back workout
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Just a regular guy.
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Fueled by Testosterone
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Silver Spring, MD
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That is going to depend on how hard they are for you (The intensity), how close to failure you go, the rest of your training program, rest and nutrition, etc.
I go through some weeks where I do pullups like 5 days during the week. However, several of those sessions include doing them as part of a circuit and not going anywhere near failure. |
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Thats Dr. Keke to you!
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The reason I ask is because I can only do 5 honest pullups before my form goes to shit, and I haven't been making any progress lately. I was thinking about going for 3x3, 3 times a week. I would like to hear what you have to say about that. |
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It seems reasonable enough to do pullups that frequently. I would at least change up your grip often though. You may also consider throwing pulldowns in there on occasion. |
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Patrick
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: AZ
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i will often do pullups every time I train.
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Chicago
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Just going back through some posts I made and came across this one. Pullups are one of the best lifts for the back yes? Can doing pullups with various grips make up the majority of back workout? Throw some rows in at the end or something.
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Stay puffed, baby.
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along with deadlifts, yeah, they are great. go with weighted pullups to progress
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Japan
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I do pullups 4 days in six days. (Push/Pull splits, two day on one day off cycle)
Once you'd be able to do weighted pullups with a certain weight then you could train in a wide rep range. In my case, I superset light-midium-rep(8-10) pullups with my benchpresses in my chest day, then I do heavy-low-rep(3-5) pullups as the main exercise in my back day(next day). But then I always train not to failure. |
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You couls do push ups with different stances almost everyday I think it would be hard to overtrain.
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Defense
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: USA
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Same here. I see pullups/chinups the same way I see pushups, something you can do 5-6 days a week easily.
Do training sets though, like Kel was talking about earlier. Pick a number that is slightly over 50% max effort, and do a few sets of that everytime you hit the gym. Maxing out on pullups once a week would work, and this would only make sense if it fell on your back day. |
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Chicago
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So you all think that the main difference between pullups every day or once a week depends on if your "maxing out" on pullups or basically going to failure with multiple sets?
I did pullups yesterday and I had a mad pump after (it was my back day) Did them to failure then did them with the assist. I probably should wait a couple days before doing that again yea? |
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I am Rollo Tomassee..
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I wouldnt do them right away again "to failure."
To those of you that include pullups close to every time you train, are you actually doing dedicated sets? Or are you just throwing them in between sets (like abs or calfs)? |
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do work son
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I think people are mistaking chin-ups/pull-ups you'd perform in a back/pull day to doing them in a circuit, or doing them to warm-up, etc.
I do weighted chin-ups on my back days, but throughout the week I'll perform pull-ups to warm-up whether it be a leg day, an arm day, a chest day, a shoulder day, a push day, a pull day.. whatever. |
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Young & Dumb User
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i do pullups every other day
i just do them to failure one set of about 20 sometimes less, sometimes more my personal best is 27 without dismounting but i dont normally approach that number unless i have taken a few days to rest the world record is 57 in one minute last time i checked... |
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fiendish thingy
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Shit, I haven't done these in a long time.
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Succinct
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Young & Dumb User
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yeah... judjing by my photo??
when i was 8 in PE i failed misurably in front of my intire class to do a single pullup my dad and i built a pullup bar, and for the past 11 years ive been doing calisthenics just because i dont have 20 inch bi's doesnt mean i cant pull my own body weight repeatadly.. lets remember size doesnt equal indurance and indurance doesnt equal size strap 10 pounds to each of my ankles and i probably reach failure at 8 pullups marines out of bootcamp often do 25 pullups... and not all of them weight 200+ pounds maybe i can do more pullups than you because you weight more... ever thought of that? anyways its very hard to overtrain on pullups unless your doing them as a set workout like 4 sets of 12 pullups you would want to rest for a few days befor doing them again |
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Succinct
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Regardless of how much you weigh, a 27RM doesn't become a 8RM if you add 20 pounds.
You could be doing 27 high-speed plyometric power pullups, but if you're talking about controlled perfect form dead hang pulls, you're talking about different numbers. And those will lead to overtraining just as fast as bentover rows, deadlifts, or bench presses. It all amounts to the recovery you get. Anyway, I'm not going into a 'yes' 'no' discussion here. |
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Chicago
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Damn can you all feel the testosterone flowing up in here?!
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