<p>Does anyone know any good lat exercises to help with pull-up endurance?</p>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p>Pull-ups.</p>
<p>I recommend just doing the lat machine at the gym. Ive been doin that for the past few weeks (I have a weight training class block 1) and Im trying to work up to lifting my body weight like 10 reps, 3 sets. Its def. helping with the pull-ups. When I started 2 weeks ago I could do two pull ups, and today I was up to 8 (Im a girl). Sorry, I had to share cuz I was really excited, doing as many pull ups as possible is a goal of mine.</p>
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<p>Dear Lord, why did You not grant me whatever gene this young man has when it was my turn? :(</p>
<p>I'm at 6 right now. I started at 3 about 5 days or so ago. My short term goal is ten.</p>
<p>Another question, what muscle group do chin-ups work?</p>
<p>And thanks for your answers.</p>
<p>gene?</p>
<p>I think you meant chromosome? </p>
<p>that "young man" is a girl</p>
<p>Well, THAT makes me feel even better! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>obviously (or at least i hope so), the best training for increasing your amount of pull ups is doing pull ups themselves. </p>
<p>Doing a lat pull down machine is not nearly as effective as doing pull ups. One thing you might consider is doing pull ups until you cannot do anymore and then do what are called negatives.</p>
<p>Negatives are when you use assistance to get to the top of the pull up position and use slow, deliberate control on the way down. After you do as many pull ups as possible without cheating, I recommend putting a bench on the ground, using the bench to get to the "up" position and then, over the course of about 5 seconds, ease yourself to the "down" position. Repeat until you cannot do any more.</p>
<p>chin ups (where your palms are facing inward) primarily work your biceps whereas pull ups (palms facing outward) primarily work your back. The wider your pull up grip, the more of your lats you incorporate. Because that is significantly harder (you are not drawing on as much strength from your arms), I observed that most mids/cadets keep their grip pretty narrow.</p>
<p>Thanks alot. I've been doing at least five sets a day to my max, but i'll try the negatives you suggested as well.</p>
<p>Sorry. I assumed you already knew about negatives.</p>
<p>From what I've heard, negatives are actually MORE effective at building the strength required to do pullups than the pullups themselves. I wish I could offer you a better reference than "I've heard", but I've heard it a lot.</p>
<p>Should I continue to do them every day or should I follow a weekly schedule to allow the muscles to recuperate?</p>
<p>definitely have some rest time. overtraining can significantly slow your progress.</p>
<p>Should I do them every other day or so or something like 4-5 times per week depending on how the muscles feel?
What type of Schedule do you follow?</p>
<p>everyother day might work</p>
<p>one day do them, one day of recovery, one day do them, etc</p>
<p>Alright
Thanks i'll do that
I figured I needed rest. i've been doing them every day for almost a week now and i was getting a little bit more than sore. Especially since i never realy worked my back too much.</p>
<p>An incredibly great pullup regimen. Helped me a ton.</p>
<p>Thanks Archie44
I'll try it out. Hopefully it'll be just as successful for me as it was for you.</p>
<p>When I do pull ups, numbers 1 to 10 pump out fairly easily, but then number 11 is REALLY difficult, and I can't even get close to twelve. Do any of you know why I don't feel fatigued on 1 through 10, and then feel it so quickly on 11? It happens every time.</p>
<p>One exercise that helped me increase my number was to just go and do a few pull ups whenever I thought about it (I have a pull up bar in my garage.) It was random, but still effective.</p>
<p>maybe lactic acid buildup?</p>