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CaraBeth · 06-08-2009, 10:38 AM

I admit that I really wanted to be able to do a chin-up after stage 6. I did my fourth workout A on Saturday, so I'll be done with the remaining 3 workouts (B-A-B) by the end of this week. Sadly, I can't do a chin-up. I can do the negative chin-ups for 20+ seconds, but I confess that I never actually added weight because my gym doesn't have a belt I can use and I didn't look into buying one. For the underhand grip pull downs, I used 105lbs in workout 4 (with the 15second rests), but that's still almost 30lbs from my body weight. (I had managed to bump up the weight for the last few reps to 110 and even 115 in the workouts with longer rest periods, but the with 15 second rest I was all set with 105!)

Did anyone repeat stage 6 in order to be able to do a chin-up? Do you have any suggestions for exercises to add that might help? Or should I just move on to stage 7 and come back to this at some point?

06-08-2009, 10:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
CaraBeth Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 92	Almost done with stage 6, and no chin-up I admit that I really wanted to be able to do a chin-up after stage 6. I did my fourth workout A on Saturday, so I'll be done with the remaining 3 workouts (B-A-B) by the end of this week. Sadly, I can't do a chin-up. I can do the negative chin-ups for 20+ seconds, but I confess that I never actually added weight because my gym doesn't have a belt I can use and I didn't look into buying one. For the underhand grip pull downs, I used 105lbs in workout 4 (with the 15second rests), but that's still almost 30lbs from my body weight. (I had managed to bump up the weight for the last few reps to 110 and even 115 in the workouts with longer rest periods, but the with 15 second rest I was all set with 105!) Did anyone repeat stage 6 in order to be able to do a chin-up? Do you have any suggestions for exercises to add that might help? Or should I just move on to stage 7 and come back to this at some point?