Hey guys,
I’m really happy because I just did a weighted chin for the first time, and I was able to do one with 80 lbs at about 210 lb bwt. It really makes me happy because it show’s that losing the weight wasn’t the only reason for my increase in chin performance. I want to work my way up to a wide-grip one arm pullup.
Neil
Awesome!!!
How did you go about doing this?
What type of program did you follow?
How many times a week did you train your back?
I can only do about 8 clean chins at a time with a good negative.
Throughout an entire workout I may do as many as 50-60 total reps.
JA
This may be a dumb, or obvious, question, but how the hell do you do a WIDE-GRIP 1 arm pullup? Whenever I do a 1 arm pullup, I grab my pulling wrist with my off hand.
How exactly do you do a “wide grip ONE ARM pullup”?
In faith,
Matt
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has no fucking clue what a wide-grip one arm pullup is.
Good I thought I was a dumb ass with the wide grip one arm thing. Good job with the weight dude.
Jackass,
“What type of program did you follow?
How many times a week did you train your back?”
I started off a while back doing a 5x5 method for pullups once a week. At first I couldn’t complete it, but I eventually did. After doing this for a few months, I pretty much stopped altogether for several weeks because of a busy track schedule. After that, I started doing 10x10 once a week of assisted pullups for about three weeks. Then I took some time to do a 5x5 again for a couple weeks while trying to lose fat, and then I discovered the meltdown training and that has taken over now. But I always changed the grips around a lot…wide grip, normal, neutral, chin, and sometimes narrow or those chins where you lean back.
You guys don’t know what I wide-grip one arm pullup is? It’s easy to visualize…you just put one hand on the bar in your normal wide-grip position, and then you do a pullup with just the one arm, keeping your body in place like it would be in a wide grip pullup. It’s really tough, but I’ll work up to doing one. 
Neil
Good luck with that “one arm wide grip” pull up.LMAO!
uhh, im no scientist but wouldnt that defy the laws of gravity?
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The physics of this description are impossible.
JackAss,
You might also want to try Wave loading (3/2/1, 3/2/1) and 1/6 training for chins. They worked super-well for me, got me to +90lbs for 3 reps in about 10 weeks.
So who showed you how to do these one arm wide grip pullups?
In my high school, we had three main halls - A, B, and C. (We stopped there as few in our redneck town got further than that in the alphabet.) A and B both had a second floor, but C did not. The stupid joke that we always told underclassmen was that there was a pool in upper C hall. The dumbasses would then go looking for access to upper C. Between this and cow-tipping, we entertained ourselves.
Anyway, the one arm wide grip pull up is the weightlifter’s version of our upper C hall.
I imagine that “wide grip one-arm” to look like a dumbell bent-over row, but with the arm rotated outward (and the entire position rotated around an overhead bar). I think I get it. Tough indeed.
You cannot preform a 1 arm wide grip pullup, once you begin to hang from the bar with the wide grip you would just swing into a poistion with the arm directly overhead. Well I should not say it is impossible, maybe some individual out there can balance in that position but i doubt it. I think some gymnasts and rock climbers can preform 1 arm pullups which i think is freaky.
Roger That…your body would swing down unless you posessed superhuman strength (ie. If your grip strength was able to resist the several thousand pounds of torque that this would exert upon it, which I doubt is going to happen in this lifetime)
The grip-width is relative to how far your hands are spaced apart when performing a chin. If using only one hand, it is impossible to alter the grip-width. In fact, there is no such thing as grip-width with a 1 arm pullup; it does not exist to even alter.
Joel
Nice chin up with that extra weight. I’m too wimpy for that yet.
And about that wide grip one handed deal, I think i’m gonna have a stab at the physics of it… Unless you are truly joking then it really doesnt matter.
It all breaks down to how you define wide grip… Are the grips far enough apart to make your arms go past vertical or not. If they are, then doing a wide grip in that state without any help would require that little tiny muscle/tendon/ligament combo you have from the thumb to the wrist to be absurdly strong, since that spot would be required to hold your body weight at the angle required to keep the wide grip “stance”. Me thinks not possible, not at least under normal gravity and without drastic measures like cutting off your legs…
Now, if you are talking wide grip=vertical arms, and just keeping your body to the side of the hand and not below it, that would at least bring more lower arm muscles into the mix. Still would be a b*tch, but maybe possible through some freak of nature.
I think he means that he keeps both hands on the bar, to center himself, but only pulls with one arm.
If not, I’d love to see what he means.