I've recently started my exercise regime and have installed a chin up bar at home. At first I was hitting 4 sets of 10 then the total number rose to 80, 100, 120 etc over the months, today I've hit 200 within 2 hours, I was aiming below 1 1/2 hour but it's kinda hard as my forearm starts to cramp thus have to stretch my resting time.

I don't do this often, maybe once a week while rest of the days I'm training on other parts of the body. Is it alright to hit this amount or a waste of time? I'm not adding more weights because I'm afraid the excess weight will bring down the bar.

I'm standing at 1.72 and weigh 69 KG.

This post has been edited by Xccess: Sep 12 2014, 07:35 PM

when u push up, does your chest reach the bar?

Pull ups to be exact and not push ups. Wow this is interesting, why I never thought of that, that few inches of chest hitting bar can drastically bring down my numbers while making it more effective.

I usually bring my chin above bar. I'm hitting 40 next year so a bit old school. Appreciate your kind enlightenment.

This post has been edited by Xccess: Sep 11 2014, 04:45 PM

Pull Up....is something i havnt try on b4 ....It looks drastically hard to me. Any entry level advice?

It's not that difficult, just make sure you have a chin up bar to start with. It's a good exercise to train your upper body. It helps if you have strong gripping power and arm strength, it may pose some difficulty for those with heavy body. For those with weak arms and gripping power, you may want to start training those area first. There's many such video in youtube as your guide.

This post has been edited by Xccess: Sep 11 2014, 06:11 PM

Do you go all the way down?

I don't go all the way down till ears are touching my arms, that's not the correct form. I do standard pull ups without swinging and kicks. Wide grips with arm straighten when I'm in dead hang position.

This post has been edited by Xccess: Sep 11 2014, 06:02 PM

Are you trying to build endurance? If not, I'm not sure why one would do one particular exercise so much. And if you can do so much, it's too light for you already.

What's your goal?

Wanna build my lats and back muscle, also to test my limit (Pull ups happened to be my favourite exercise). It's been donkey years since I last hit the gym, now wanna start training back. If it's too excessive and won't help effectively in building back muscle then I will do some adjustment to it. As mentioned I don't wanna add weight to my body because the bar may not be able to take it.

I'm building my foundation using body weight for now until I sign up gym. You know la, don't wanna look like weakling walking into big gym.....embarrassing u noe.

This post has been edited by Xccess: Sep 13 2014, 12:41 AM

if u really wanna improve your strength and hypertrophy then gym is your best place. from there build ur foundation.

maybe do it in a playground or somewhere else with a solid bar? what's the width of your bar? And 200 reps in 2 hours, how do you program the sets/reps?

Is your form like this?



when I do mine, I just wear a backpack to add resistance...

[quote=Xccess,Sep 13 2014, 12:22 AM]
don't wanna look like weakling walking into big gym.....embarrassing u noe.


wut, everyone gotta start somewhere.. y do you care so much about everyone else

Lol....just self-conscious la. Yes, that's how I do my Pull ups (Palm facing away from me), wide grip and arms straighten on dead hang or down position. The width of my bar is close to 3 feet, just 2 inches short. Maybe I'll just dump in 5 - 10 KG of my weight into backpack and give it a shot, hopefully the bar can tahan.

I split it into numerous sets, sumthing like 12 - 15 - 12 - 10 - 10 - 9 etc. (rest of the sets I press on till failure until the numbers add up to 200)

I can do 20 at a go but for training I don't start with this number.




This post has been edited by Xccess: Sep 13 2014, 12:39 PM

Muscle gains are stimulated by lifting a weight that you can lift 20 or fewer times. More than that and it's almost useless to build muscle. Basic bodybuilding knowledge.

Don't be the idiot Malaysian who does 100~200 pushups to build a big chest.

Tie a weight plate to your leg while doing pull ups, or go to the gym and do barbell rows or lat pull downs. Keep it under 12 reps

This post has been edited by Armesh: Sep 13 2014, 01:23 PM

Heavy weights will wait for the gym. Thanks for all information given guys.

i cant even do 20 pull ups at a time

If you have the bar installed at home, I'm sure you can hit numbers beyond your limit.

This post has been edited by Xccess: Sep 16 2014, 07:29 PM

I can't even do 6 consecutive pullups with strict form lol.

200 pull ups sounds like 200 abs crunch that goes no where :/

From now will tweak my pull ups exercise, gonna load weight plates into backpack. Since 2 hours of pull ups is time consuming and also ineffective, I'll need to up the scale as suggested. Thanks!

But is that all you do?