Pull ups - positive or negative?

In the past i have always been bad at pull ups and if i trained just straight positive pullups i never really saw much improvement or if i did it was really slow and didn't seem to hit the parts of my lats i was after, but for the last 3 weeks i have been doing negative hammer pullups 5x5 once a week where i will hold for as long as i can at the top and when i start to fail i resist the downwards motion as slowly as i can and the results have been great. After the first time doing them i could feel i had worked the lat from top to bottom which i never got from any upper back workout. So this morning i had a quick go on normal pullups and had doubled my previous best amount of reps in a set and this is just 2 days after practice at Swindon! This is definitly gonna be my main non table training for my upper back and biceps. I wondered if anyone else had had similair good results from negative pullups?

i only do a few pull up i do a lot of holding ....your training with julien cini & co

ye been back down couple of weeks now

who's training there now

the same guys as last year, plus some new faces, and Robert came in on friday and he's a lot stronger than last year!

Ive usd that style of pullup with good effect but i had baz swinging on the legs pound for pound Andy Barker best ive ever seen

paul maiden wrote:

Ive usd that style of pullup with good effect but i had baz swinging on the legs pound for pound Andy Barker best ive ever seen

Was.


-getting back into them soon...


SteRoid - now he's one solid chinning MACHINE!!!

I've never had problems with pull-ups until recently dew to tendonitis. I've found that bent over rows are a fantastic way of building lat power but there not suitable for those who are getting on a bit....eh Nick. Serious strain on the low back.