Chin up frequency

[Arnnas]

Hello,
I want to ask if it's OK to do chin-ups 3 times a week, if you can't do any? Well I want to speed up my chin up progress until I will be able to make one. Currently I'm train with jump chin ups and negatives of 3 sets.
1.Would it be over-training/lack of time for recovery?
2.Or maybe doing 3 times instead of 2 will not make any difference?
Thanks

[Haggit]

I could be wrong here but I did it for a couple weeks and it didn't seem to be an issue. Best thing to do is just try and see. You have to remember to jump less each time and slow the descent more each time. You'll either get stronger at them or you'll regress and then you'll know! One thing I can say for certain is mix chins with pull ups. I made that mistake. So maybe chins twice a week and pull ups once and alternate them

[quagmire]

I would not recommend it. Once a week (till you can do 5 of them) should be good.
There is also the risk of injury.

Why not try DB rows?

[Haggit]

Why not try DB rows?

Or maybe inverted rows?

Thank you for correcting me BTW

[william jackson]

I say go for it. Rows may help but I would stick with negatives. Maybe one negative between every workset? (I don't know where your strength is at)

[Harry Flashman]

I got to being able to do chin-ups for sets by doing 2 sets of 5x negatives and a set of 5x chin-up grip pulldown on my A day (and the same for pull-ups, except doing a pull-up grip lat pulldown - still not able to do pull-ups for sets yet).

I don't know if it's the best approach scientifically, but it worked for me after about 5 weeks. I was helped in that I was on a TDEE calorie deficit and losing about 1kg of bodyweight a week.

[The Emancipated Freak]

I would not recommend it. Once a week (till you can do 5 of them) should be good.
There is also the risk of injury.

Why not try DB rows?

Is this a joke?

I used to be a big chinup dude and I did them to failure 2 or 3 times a day. I went from doing none to 22 relatively quickly. After putting on about 60 pounds I did 15 last week.

In general, your biceps will be able to recover very quickly, there is little risk of injury and they're cool to do. Do them a lot.

EDIT: I didn't bother with negatives or any of that bullshit. I just worked on being able to pull myself up. Unless you're a being of living shit, you probably can do a chin up, you just don't quite have the ability to will yourself to be pulled up.

[Harry Flashman]

Unless you're a being of living shit, you probably can do a chin up, you just don't quite have the ability to will yourself to be pulled up.

Right. Every untrained individual should be able to lift their own body mass from a dead hang else they're just lacking in 'will'...(!)

[The Emancipated Freak]

Right. Every untrained individual should be able to lift their own body mass from a dead hang else they're just lacking in 'will'...(!)

Yes. They have to get used to lifting their own weight. That's what I did, and I became very successful at chin ups.

[hamburgerfan]

Doing them too much didn't do anything but make my biceps hurt like hell. I was doing them every day though.