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[Arboresque]

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If I get this job up at Newcastle I'm looking at changing some aspects of my training. One might be to implement lower intensity squats on Wednesday a la the 'advanced novice' in PP. The other will be to start chinning and using back raises as opposed to bent-over rows. I've already shaved my squat jumps down to 2kg (4.4lbs), bench jumps down to 1kg (2.2lbs), press jumps down to 0.5kg (1.1lbs) and deadlift jumps down to 2.5kg (5.5lbs).

One issue I see with the chinning option is that I can do about 1-2 full body-weight chins and I've got no chance of managing a pull up. Does anyone have any advice on what to do in this situation? I've tried to use the search function but I can't find any relevant threads. I have bands. Should I be doing band assisted reps? Negatives? Singles? Jumping/Kipping?

Arboresque.

I've found banded chins to be good, as well as doing singles (for example one single a minute for 10-15 minutes).

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[Yaums]

Hi Arboresque,

same feeling here. Two weeks without training and I get a hell of a time getting back to it.

I suck at chins, too, and here is the method I use:
- Every day, 4 to 6 times a day, I do a set of chins 1 or 2 reps short to failure (kind of Pavel's Greasing the Groove, or what John Shaeffer calls the Frequency Method).
- At the end of each workout, I do 6 sets of chins with 25s rest in between each set. These sets are not to failure. My goal is to reach a certain number of reps across. I don't try upping the reps on the first set before I get all 6 sets right with the target number of reps. I started with sets of 1 reps one month ago, and I'm trying to get sets of 4 reps right now.

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