Ask Rip 40: Worse than usual.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Ask Rip #40 | Starting Strength Channel

[Mugaaz]

Follow up to the pull up question. If you can do crappy pull ups where chin can barely clear the bar. Is progressing in the amount of reps over time also going to get you to the point you can do a chest to bar pullup?

[Mark Rippetoe]

Sure, if you're close. You just have to work on finishing the reps.

[laughter95]

welp. i sent a copy of the barbell prescription to my friend's 65 y/o dad who spent new year's eve weekend in the ICU for an emergency gallbladder surgery. he lives a half hour from greysteel. hope he decides to make a change.

[BenM]

I almost crashed the car listening to that, I was laughing so hard. My first thought was I wonder if 3 times a day man was Carni.

Very entertaining and also very serious by the end too. Top stuff!

[George Christiansen]

Three a day is nothing.

I was a on a four a day routine for about a week while my wife visited family in WI as a sort of preemptive treatment for "wandering eyes".

Made for a fun reunion, but a sore next day.

[Chris Lippke]

Question regarding chin-ups and Austin's recommendation for 4-6 sets of negative/eccentric singles (around 11:30 in the video):
How long to rest between sets? Still at least 5 minutes?

[Mark Rippetoe]

Experiment.

[quad]

Sure, if you're close. You just have to work on finishing the reps.

Isn't a "chest to bar pullup" just a byproduct of a combination of momentum, wrist flexion and shoulder protraction?

[Mark Rippetoe]

I don't know, quad.