Oh, that made my WEEK!!! I’ve I’ve been helpful in anyway, then I’m so glad.
Just awesome, @ChickenLittle. Lookin’ good. WHOOT!!!
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Progression for weighted chins seems to slow quite a bit, at least for me. Also, nothing has brought elbow tendonitis more quickly than chasing pounds on chins. Finally, I once gave myself an inguinal hernia doing weighted chins, due to the weight belt pulling down and not actively keeping my trunk and glutes engaged.
Not to be a worrywart, just proceed with caution.
I’ve done somewhere between 3-5 with 135, and still feel nowhere near 185.
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Damn. I’ll definitely be careful. Thanks for the word of caution. I guess like everything in lifting, the gains slow down really fast
Anyone in here a fan of towel pullups?
I tried them for the first time today and got 5. I’d like to at least triple that number before i considered it half decent. What do you guys think is a respectable towel chins number?
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I have never tried them but I will give them a go next time I train. Done something similar before as assistance for learning a 1 armed chin up where you have one hand on pull up bar and the other hand lower down holding either towel or rope.
I can imagine my forearms and grip would give out before anything else. I don’t love having my hands around as much CoC as you do.
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They’re actually surprisingly good on the back, i got a better back pump then i do on regular pullups. Fat gripz pullups i really like as well.
Hahaha piss off mate 
On a side note, you ever done a one arm chin up?
Couldn’t resist sorry!
No I’ve never actually managed it, came pretty close a while back when I was lighter and doing a lot of calisthenics stuff, wouldn’t even come close now.
Would still love to do a muscle up but every time I try and learn the move I get shoulder pain and it just feels impossible. I think I will still try and attain one though at some point.
I’ve changed from posting “CoC” to gripper training or grip training haha.
Nice! how long did you train before you came close?
A muscle up would be awesome
Not long, a few months maybe. It’s one of them exercises that requires a lot of technique, very much like the muscle up. Brute strength will not do it if you don’t get the transitions or body positions right, plus you need great wrist strength.
I’ve had a gymnast teach me how to do a muscle up on the rings, it was so frustrating. You have to have a funny monkey like wrist position in order to transition from the pull up to the dip. For the life of me I could just not maintain the wrist position.
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Since I’m working out at home, I do towel pull-ups almost exclusively. To help my grip, I wear a pair of leather work gloves, which helps me get more reps and more back exercise.
It’s definitely an exercise you don’t see much people doing.
Are muscle ups on a regular pullup bar easier?
Nice. Whats your best towel chinups set?
I’ve only done them for volume then messed up my shoulder so had a 10-month layoff. I was doing 10 supersets of 5 deficit deadlifts at 235 followed by jumping rope and 5-6 towel pull-ups (my goal was 60 total, then I’d add weight via a backpack. Then I got hurt.) If I had to guess, I reasonably could’ve done 11 or 12. I’m now planning to reintroduce them, but will start at 4 or 5 reps.
How about you, what are your max reps?
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damn, sorry to hear about the shoulder! glad it’s alright now. Also 11-12 is pretty good.
i tried them out for the first time on saturday, i got 5.
No worries, it’s m3nded well, and thanks!
I began doing 5 sets of 3 reps and added 1 rep to as many sets as I could each week. Increase slowly but consistently, and you’ll be surprised how soon you’re knocking out sets of 8-10 or doing them with weights.
Hopefully when i progress to weighted the towel doesn’t snap haha
The risk is real, lol. The first towel I used did tear apart eventually, but it was in degrees and foreseeable (I survived.) I’m now using a long, thick beach towel, and it appears to be unfazed.
Muscle Ups on a bar & on rings are very different exercises IMO. I got up to 12 bar MUs at bodyweight & 5 reps with 10kg added last year but I’m pretty sure this gave me golfer’s elbow so I had a year off doing them & now I reckon I’d struggle to get much over 6 at bodyweight as psychologically I can feel myself holding back because I’m worried about my elbows…
I much prefer doing MUs on rings as this has never given me any injury issues, even when adding weight, although learning the false grip (aka the funny monkey like wrist position!) is extremely tough & will tear your wrists to shreds! Doing MUs on rings also lends itself far better to using paused/tempo reps which I find best for size/strength gains.
On a similar note I got very caught up in the past with chasing rep maxes with added weight on chins/pull ups which lead to me using crappy form & putting too much stress on my joints. Nowadays I do all reps with some sort of pause/tempo pattern (often: 3 second hang at the start of each rep + 3 sec hold at the top + 3 sec eccentric) so I use far less weight but still get an excellent workout.
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Filmed some of my sets last night, concentrated on some nice slow eccentrics.
Shirt off because it’s very hot in the uk at the minute, maybe I should have put some trousers on though so I’m not embarrassed by the 2 twigs that are my lower legs!
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