CHIN UPS

[jaypatience]

My body type is Endomorph, I am 7months into it I notice the change. But I am not satisfied. My brother and others fom this site  has been saying that i need to incorporate chin ups as a must. I have now kicked into a whole other gear. Now I am not afraid to train heavy now. I tired doing chin ups and I was only able to do 1 1/2 now I need to get stronger on that. My question is do I lift more weights that geared to the upper body or do I just keep at it. Any suggestions. PLUS I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU GUYS WHO HAS HELPED ME BY SUGGESTION AND COMMENTS, I LOOKING BETTER AND FEELING BETTER. NOTE*** EVERY PLEASE LISTEN AND FOLLOW THE SUGGESTION THEY DO WORK.

[Bad Bob]

Jay.... just hit it hard. Upper body - lower body.. all of it. Don't just focus on the chins. Incorparate then into your routine, if you can do them.
And do them as long as you can..... I haven't been able to do them in 20 years!

[p.s.]

Jay.... just hit it hard. Upper body - lower body.. all of it. Don't just focus on the chins. Incorparate then into your routine, if you can do them.
And do them as long as you can..... I haven't been able to do them in 20 years!

I totally agree with Bob here, and on back day what I suggest is that you do as many reps of chins as you can and once you fail (it doesn't matter if it's 1 rep or 15) try incorporating negatives for as many reps as you can. So set up some type of platform so you can start the negative at the top of the chin and then s-l-o-w-l-y lower yourself down (3-5 count) and keep at it until you just can't lower yourself under control for another rep. Rest for 90 seconds and then go at 'er again, 3-4 sets of these should do the trick and in a few weeks your chin up strength will increase to where you'll be able to get quite a number of full reps.

DO NOT USE THOSE PUSSY ANTI-GRAV CHIN MACINES!!!

Who knows maybe in a few months you'll be the chin up king of your gym!

[Bad Bob]

Negatives..... great idea p.s.. I'm gonna do that next back day!

[muscle_n_blood]

DO NOT USE THOSE PUSSY ANTI-GRAV CHIN MACINES!!!

Absolutely not. Nobody ever makes the transiton from those dumbass thngs to real bodyweight chins. Dips neither.

If you can do one, do a few sets of one, then negatives. You'll be able to do 2 or more in a couple of workouts. They come pretty quickly after that.

[HARDCORE]

Pat hit this one on the head, DO your chins. And negatives are a GREAT way to bring up your strength and endurance. I agree that you need to do as many pullups as you can, and try to improve each workout.

One method I use with my clients is to do as many pullups as you can and then rest for 30 seconds and do as many more as you can, wait another 30 seconds and do it again. Rest 2-3 minutes and get your partner to hold your legs (cross them and bend as you do your pullup) and help you do as many as your partner can help you with. This works when you can do a decent amount to start with though.