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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Nope, other variety of exercises as well.

Don't worry, everyone started from zero.