If you want to improve your chinups, should you practice doing chinups more often or should you do various exercises to improve overall upper body strength?I thought I could do chinups at one time in my life. Turns out my form and technique were terribly wrong. First of all I didn't start with a deadhang. Sadly, I discovered that at a deadhang start, I could hardly do a single chinup.
Over a period of time, I improved to a single measly chinup. Which was actually an achievement seeing that I failed to do chinups before. But then my focus went elsewhere and I spent my time doing overhead presses, bodyweight rows (using the TRX) and pushups. That's all I did.
And today out of curiosity I tried doing chinups. Bare in mind it's been a couple of months since I last did them. And surprisingly I managed to do 3 of 'em. Again, I am the first to admit the number is nothing to shout about. But I'm just curious how I managed to improve on the numbers (by 200%... hahaha...) without training for them directly.
Oh just in case you're curious. My weight is a healthy 48kilos. I'm happy with it, and I think this is my ideal weight.
2 comments:
Why cannot start at deadhang? So what is the starting position?
So you can still do 3 chinups. Great! What's the secret then, since you said it's been months since u last did them? Have you started using Pavel's technique?
Adeline: You should start at a deadhang (like the pic in my post). Maybe you misunderstood.
Previously My elbows were at an angle, so it's pretty much like cheating.
There is no secret. I myself don't know what happened. Maybe doing all those backrows, overhead presses and pushups helped strengthen my lats and biceps. Don't really know for sure.
And no I haven't used Pavel's technique yet. Must try doing that soon!
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