What's necessary/optimal for doing first chin up?

[ColeTrain]

If you can't do one chin up and you have access to lat machine, is there any need to incorporate negatives/bands into your workouts or is a lat machine sufficient/optimal enough on its own?

[Mark Rippetoe]

Run an LP up to bodyweight. This will take fractional plates/magnets for the stack.

[ColeTrain]

Thanks Rip

[Jovan Dragisic]

I got to my first chin up by following the lat machine protocol. It took me about five or six weeks, I did it two to three times a week. My current AMRAP is 16 chins.

[CalebM]

My chins are stuck at two sets for 3 and one set of 2. Just won't move. Would a set or two banded chins after the first 3 sets achieve anything to nudge progress?

[Mark Rippetoe]

Banded chins make the bottom very easy. Does that sound like a way to improve your chins? How are your deadlifts coming along?

[CalebM]

Banded chins make the bottom very easy. Does that sound like a way to improve your chins? How are your deadlifts coming along?

Going up every workout but not heavy yet.

[Mark Rippetoe]

A big deadlift will unstick your chins, even as your bodyweight goes up.

[Jovan Dragisic]

My chins are stuck at two sets for 3 and one set of 2. Just won't move. Would a set or two banded chins after the first 3 sets achieve anything to nudge progress?

You need to exhale at the top, quickly inhale and do a mini Valsalva, so that you are tight when you get to the bottom. This will enable you to rebound off the bottom and will increase your volume. The breathing part is the most important to get down first.

[Mark Rippetoe]

You need to exhale at the top, quickly inhale and do a mini Valsalva, so that you are tight when you get to the bottom. This will enable you to rebound off the bottom and will increase your volume. The breathing part is the most important to get down first.

Absolutely necessary.