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Sounds good just don’t over think it. It’s just a high volume upper back specialization routine you are suggesting. Go for it. It works just cheeck out the upper backs on some of those freaks at Cirque de Solei. They do countless body wieght only pull up variations in the show and I would assume training. I was a corrections officer for a few years and all those guys did was push ups pull ups dips and chins day in and day out.
The ones that followed that kind of workout scheme were amazingly jacked and strong. I am doing something similar with pull ups and am working up to a goal of 250 dead hang pull ups each upperbody session. I keep the reps low and never hit failure. I repeat a 2-3-5 rep scheme until I hit my goal for the day and add the appropriate number of rounds to reach that goal each week.
upper body huh? well i culd suggest a complex that wont take that much time.
weighted p b dips , weighted chins , handstand pushups[these wont be difficult for an oly lifter]. i guess thats ab it. maybe gtg everyday so u dont exhaust ur cns,
one thing i am sure abt is that u must have a solid upper back already due to all those cleans[power and hang]
i noticed my upper back and traps became quite thick and beefy when i started doing hang cleans for 5-6 reps w decent weight. gosh i love oly lifting, it reminds me of an article somewhere abt it being the fountain of youth, those phasic and tonic muscles, oly lifting has sure put a spring in my step. sometimes feel like jumping a mountain. lol
You need recovery time
You’ve got two different goals there - doing 100 chinups in a session / day, and getting a bigger upper body. If you don’t do much heavy upper body now then the chins might help, but I can think of lots of better ways of putting on mass. Of course, you’re allowed to have two goals, but they conflict to some extent.
[quote]leezw88 wrote:
hmm any critique on this ? i want to start it soon as the majority gives approval.
My goal is to increase upper body mass(read:26inch thighs and 14inch arms, what a disparity) without affecting my olympic lifting schedule ( currently just learning how to snatch properly)
BTW I am squatting 352lbs for two so yeah i have some lifting experience under my belt.[/quote]
I refer to every such overhead pulling exercise as a pullup and work different grips. I easily do around 100/day.
No biggie… but …
High rep training means you are fundamentally working something other than bodybuilding. Your only goal with these is to control the angle between humerus and torso – much like in a squat where you are really just controlling putting your hips back then forth. Reason I say that is that you squat (without knee pain, right???) and the same sorts of issues people get with bad squatting form = load goes to knees or back have direct analogs in pullups, where the load ends up in the elbows with attendant pain (or kipping to have the abs do the work). Having your elbows cave medially (to the inside) during the exercise is pretty much the same as getting knee-cave during a squat.
A straight bar is the best where you can vary your grip width to match the geometry of your shoulders – and this is the real key to doing a lot of these. A lot of squat racks have grips on them at funny angle for people to do pullups and they can cause some real shoulder pain if you are going to do these everyday. And yes, you can vary these during the set, along with the width.
Can’t say it enough to change your hand position, so use different grips! For me pistol grip (= thumbs towards you) is the least taxing variation. Wide grip only would give me shoulder pain after a week or so. In point of fact, YMMV and part of doing pullups like this will be figuring out how your upper body is put together.
And don’t forget to do some complimentary pressing activity. On another thread I pointed out that pushups work fine, but I am also very partial to overhead presses. The dead-head workout (heavy deadlifts, then overheads) totally rocks too.
– jj
250 pullups in one workout is insane.
[quote]leezw88 wrote:
hmm any critique on this ? i want to start it soon as the majority gives approval.
My goal is to increase upper body mass(read:26inch thighs and 14inch arms, what a disparity) without affecting my olympic lifting schedule ( currently just learning how to snatch properly)
BTW I am squatting 352lbs for two so yeah i have some lifting experience under my belt.[/quote]
sounds like a sound routine.try doing that hundered reps in as few sets as possible.go for it!