[quote]buddaboy wrote:
The best way I have ever encountered to improve pul ups is Pavel’s ‘ladders’ method.[/quote]
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10 pull up and hold challenge could also help…
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
[quote]GreatAjax wrote:
only go to failure once in a long while. dont do it every set, every last set, every workout, or even every week. trust me. it might be okay at first when you can’t do many pullups but after a while it’ll get you no where fast.[/quote]
this is vaguely worded general advice that is misleading, IMO. granted, a natty lifter should not go to failure very often compared to a geared lifter for recovery reasons, but to say that you shouldn’t even try to go to failure of any sort every session or every week is bad advice.[/quote]
I’ve had some questions about training to failure myself and it seems to me that the advice to not do so is exaggerated.
Check out this article: Training to Failure.
The author seems to be saying there are many times when you are lifting and feel like you can’t bang out another rep. Though many of us see this as failure, there is a distinction between this and a physiological inability to bang out another rep. That is to say, sometimes you feel like you can’t do it, but physiologically your body has not been taxed to the point of can’t do it.
The takeaway for me is that, especially as a beginner, the biggest concern should be not training hard enough. I hit “failure” on at least one set of every exercise I do and rarely am sore for more than two days.
On a side, I do make sure to use the “ramping up” method. I feel it’s important to hit “failure” on the last set.