Someone I know that was in the army rangers told me how he increased his pullup strength. He did handstand pushups, against the wall, then he hang upside down from a bar holding on to it until your arms get tired, then rest a bit and do pullups until you can't do anymore. Really, I have no idea why handstand pushups would help, but he says it'll push your 'wings' (lats im guessing [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) out so they'll expand easier on the upside down hangs.
A method of mine I'm currently experimenting is I'm doing 2 sets of negatives, I do the negatives until I have 1 or 2 left in me, then on the last set of pullups, I do as many regular pullup reps as I can.
Another way is do a kind of straigt-arm pullover, using 1 dumbbell making a triangle with your hands holding the dumbbell weight, lay on the bench with your shoulders on it (sideways on the bench, not laying the long way), and your head hanging off. Start with 30lbs, see if you can do 15, if you can easily, up the pounds on the dumbbell, keep upping it until you get tired on the 15th rep.
I haven't done 4 sets of whatever reps to test myself out, but I tell ya my pullup speed has increased a lot in just a week and half doing that. I haven't done my friend's method yet. I'm currently trying to break a pullup and B-O row plateau. I'd just thought I'd share this with you guys. I wanna see what you think.
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