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Originally Posted by marcmmclellan
I tend to lose strength easily in pull-ups unless I keep it up. 5 sets of 5 reps weighted for pull-ups is the best for me to improve strength and endurance.
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For me, wieghted pullups vs. body weight for reps has always produced different results. When in a strength/mass program lower reps with a dumbell slung between my legs has produced good results, but my endurance has always suffered. Seems like when I train to do less than 10 pullups, wieghted or not thats where my muscles fatigue.
A good friend of mine (razor may recall Johny G), sold me on a program of simple sets of 10 for pullups. Over the course of 10 sets you'll do up to 100 reps. Normally you'll hit 10 easily in your first few sets, then experience some fatigue over the middle sets. Toward the end, you'll be surprised at how your body recovers and are doing reps up to 10 again, kind of weird. Replace your normal pull up workout with this, or your back workout and you'll see great improvement on your pullups.
A similar workout with pushups is to do 10 sets of 25. I do this 3x a week, and place them in such a way that I do them the morning after I bench or work shoulders. Not only does it work well for developing muscular endurance for that particular exercise, but it acts as a good recovery exercise after a heavy lift day.
anyway, just my .02
mp