It was a chin not a pullup, so underhand. and it wasn’t from a deadhang- will be working on that and doing it overhand as well for the next 7wks or so before i put it on the backburner again.
I broke the chain on my dipping belt and i was able to get up to bw in my weighted chinup… but i still couldn’t do a 1 arm chin.
Negatives are better for training you’re 1 arm chin (along with some other tips and stuff you can learn from this 1 website i found, beastskills.com - excellent stuff).
Really, squeezing the shit out of the bar and clenching my other fist did it for me. It’s like keeping a ‘hollowbody’ in gymnastics. When EVERYTHING is tight you’re a lot “lighter”
When i was a lot younger and in gymnastics they’d make us lay on our backs make our entire bodies tight then grab us by our big toes and if you were properly tight the instructor should be able to lift you to the back of your head with no sag anywhere.
When i used that principle and made everything tight. It was a lot easier to pull off than i anticipated.
85# is probably enough. If you can get 85# for about 3reps then you can do it just start practicing your negatives. Hell you’ll probably be able to pull more after you’ve trained negatives for a while. As i’ve posted above, i liked to work negatives for no more than 1-3 reps of 3-5sets, then i do a couple sets of weighted pullups 3x3-5 or do some rep work
a lot of my training i just go by ‘feel’. I write down a general plan of what i should be working on, like tommorrow, i know im going to do:
deadlifts from a deficit (me)
front squats 3x3/2/1
gm 3x8
back extensions/1 leg back ext 3x5/15
abs
last time i ended up doing pullthrus and tricep pressdowns too… 2 more sets of gm’s for higher reps, and only 2 sets of front squats.
I had been training to do a 1 arm chin on and off for about 2yrs hahaha, its never been a goal that was like the forefront of my training I knew i wanted to do it but i didn’t have a timeline. I’m sure I could have accomplished it sooner, but it was really something like on the backburner of my training. I really owe it to my improved grip strength. (Thanks diesel crew! haha)
molarity or whatever- I don’t know why im even going to dignify this with a response but, i had established that my burpee thing was wrong, considering i didn’t even do a pushup wth them it ws more like sprawl w/o getting my hips down- pushup position, up, repeat. Which is pretty easy. U can look at previous posts for the evidence of that.
football i pretty much gave up on just cause i dont have the skill set- i might be strong enough but thats not everything. Mind you i made the team but at my physical it was discovered i had some stress fractures and somethin up with my metatarsals. But I might try out again just for you pookie…
i’ll be sure to save the clipping from the daily trojan that says “Congratulations to the following walk ons” and have someone scan it.
Just for you.
