Chin ups everyday?

[cg123]

I am starting a 4 day split. Chest. Back. Legs/shoulders. Arms. Some people say doing chinups/pull ups twice everyday is good. I though it might be counterproductive because of overtraining back and bis possibly. Any thoughts?

[demolition]

Personally I rotate abs and chinups every other day. So I will do abs Monday with my workout then Tuesday I add pullups and rotate between the two, that way I am giving some rest time for those groups.

[Resolve]

If you wanna improve your chins, doing them frequently would help. Just cut the set before failure each time - i.e. when rep slows down, that's your last rep for that set.

You could even just setup a chinning bar in a doorway and do a set whenever you pass through that door. As long as your diet is in order and you don't take the sets to failure, you won't 'overtrain' (a term I really dislike, but whatever)

[ludbg]

I do 4 sets for warnup and stretch. On cardio days i do 5x12
Its a great cuz it gets ur HR up really fast

[votum]

Overtraining is not a real thing. Unless you can move objects with your mind your body will ALWAYS outlast your mind.

Abs and pullups/chinups/pushups are something everyone should do every day. If chins/pulls aren't incorportated into my workout for the day I will do them at the end. The end of every workout for me is:

some abs - HIIT - 1 ab set / 1 pushup set until I'm tired - as many pullups I can do until failure with alternating grips.

Also, I don't kip.

[Resolve]

Unless you can move objects with your mind your body will ALWAYS outlast your mind.

What?

[votum]

What?

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Our body is stronger than our mind. I don't know anyone who can actually overtrain their body. I personally rest as little as possible, and can always make it to the gym the next day. Might not be able to bench 315 every day but I don't consider that overtraining either.

Just saying I don't believe in overtraining because your mind is the bottleneck in the equation, not your body. Unless you are a jedi o.0

[Resolve]

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Our body is stronger than our mind. I don't know anyone who can actually overtrain their body. I personally rest as little as possible, and can always make it to the gym the next day. Might not be able to bench 315 every day but I don't consider that overtraining either.

Just saying I don't believe in overtraining because your mind is the bottleneck in the equation, not your body. Unless you are a jedi o.0

While I agree that overtraining is merely insufficient recovery modalities, the mind is not always the 'bottleneck.' Ever fail a lift? Mind was stronger. People whose legs give out running a marathon? Mind was stronger. Rectal Prolapse? Mind was stronger.

[votum]

While I agree that overtraining is merely insufficient recovery modalities, the mind is not always the 'bottleneck.' Ever fail a lift? Mind was stronger. People whose legs give out running a marathon? Mind was stronger. Rectal Prolapse? Mind was stronger.

True but those are extremes, and that doesn't make my statement completely right or wrong.

I think more often the case is our brains tell us to stop and we go with it, its pretty rare you say suck it and hurt yourself.

I remember a few months ago my IFBB buddy would always say, "why arent you lifting 315" when I benched 275, and my asnwer was always, I'm too little dude. Well one day he spotted me and I got 2.5 reps on my own, failed the third but I wasn't even expecting to make 1.

I don't even want to think about rectal prolapse...

[Resolve]

Far be it from me to correct you if you feel your brain is weak.

[votum]

Far be it from me to correct you if you feel your brain is weak.

Ahaha

+rep, Also, how the heck have you been man, its been a long time!

No doubt about my mind being weak, I went from 230 benching 315 and squating 400 minimum to 200 and can barely bench 225. Got married too, all sorts of weakness!

[Resolve]

I'm right there with ya on the weakness part. Seems everytime I start to get close to where I used to be, some new health issue pops up.