I moved to new gym and it has very odd pullup bar with very wide handles. normally i can do +40lbs x 10 reps. i tried today at new gym and i did barely 40 x 5 and i didnt feel almost anything in my lats, but i felt pulling sensation in my biceps and shoulders. so i stopped exercise. has anyone encountered sth like this?
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wide grip pullups pulling my biceps apart
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No wider grip wider than shoulder width for me. Done too much damage in my early years to risk getting hurt now by doing that kind of stuff.
x2...I was on the wide grip train for about a year and it added to unneeded strain. Back's gotten stronger with the shoulder width pullup (and biceps as well).
I think the name "wide" grip pullups makes people think it will make your back "wider." Could not be further from the truth (alot of 70s bb'ing literature reference this as the king of lat exercises but I think that's been pretty well disproven).
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Never use an exaggerated grip on any exercise unless you start super light and work into it. But with chins/pullups your just asking for an injury with such a grip even if you go light. I'd stay away from it.
Wow... is there really any benefit to doing wide-grips then? Any potential pluses?
They look cool?...
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I've read a couple articles that say optimal recruitment comes from 1.5x the acromial distance.
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I think there are so many other safer movements that can hit the same target areas that there's no real reason to do wide grip anything.
I see allot of young guys in the gym doing them but only to set themselves up for wrecked shoulders later in life. Wish I knew then what I know now.
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Hmm...after reading a lot of these posts I may take a look at my wide grip routine as I've been noticing a lot more muscle soreness the day after lifting than usual.
the wider you go also cuts down the range of motion which in my opinion is pretty damn important...pointless
Zero...as far as I'm concerned. I've seen a few "pros" and super strong folks doing them, but I don't think it would matter, they are so jacked up I'm like seriously?
same with the behind the neck presses.. in the 50's - 60's -70's it was the thing to do to build traps they said.. how wrong they were.. ("they" sure are bad coaches)its an abnormal movement they say now days.. how can pushing develope the traps? and a pushing movement that far back behind your head is bad from what "the experts" say now days..
cant go wrong with the typical standing military press. deadlift. bench press. squat.
dips, pullups, pushups..
that old t-bar row was another fangled exercise. you lay on a bench on a 45 degree angle, reach way over to the side and unrack the bar, do the exercise, then when you're exhausted, you have to put it back way over to the side to rack it.. another goofy exercise..wonder how many injuries folks got doing that exercise..
cant go wrong with the typical standing military press. deadlift. bench press. squat.
dips, pullups, pushups..
that old t-bar row was another fangled exercise. you lay on a bench on a 45 degree angle, reach way over to the side and unrack the bar, do the exercise, then when you're exhausted, you have to put it back way over to the side to rack it.. another goofy exercise..wonder how many injuries folks got doing that exercise..
Interesting to see that a lot of people with good delts nowadays still have the behind-the-neck presses as a staple in their routine!
