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Quote from: Dreyth on November 21, 2012, 11:14:54 am

I love weighted chin ups. I don't know why more people don't do them.

IMO - you don't see results if you do them with sloppy form and partial ROM..

yep. dead hang, adams apple to bar level, and no swinging.

What the heck this makes it seem impossible to me. When I was 190lbs I was about 10% body fat. If I gained just a single pound of fat while going up to 200lbs, I would have been the same bf%?!?!

Well, I guess it makes it seem easier on the flip side. If I'm 200lbs and 12% bf, and when I go down to 190lbs but lose 4lbs of fat and 6lbs of muscle (think about it... losing more muscle than fat), I will have gone down to 10.5%.


So far in my cut I went from 200lbs to 195lbs without losing an ounce of strength. Actually, I've GAINED a tiny bit of strength but I feel the deficit is catching up to my recovery and will probably go back to baseline levels where I was at the start of my cut.

it just gives slow recovery and even if you actually are fully recovered, sub-optimal performance.

that is to say then you can increase your lifts with shitty recovery every day. just slower.

also, suck it up.

lol

THREE pounds in one week?!

of course your strength dropped! the idea is to lose ONE pound a week and that should do a pretty good job of retaining your strength.

also, this might be brosciency, but the more upright/vertical i can keep my torso during a pull-up, the more lat involvement. leaning back and bringing the hips forward, the way most people do it, engages my arms more. that's true at least by feel.

Not broscience imo. One way is more like a chin up, the other is closer to a row which has different muscle involvements.

I stopped deadlifting for 2-3 months now.  Would this be detrimental to my vertical?  My main exercises are full squat paused, leg curls, and 45 degree hyper-extensions with 30 lb dumbells.

The best thing I ever did for my vertical was to stop deadlifting and squat an extra day per week.


I don't do that anymore though because my hamstrings are LACKING and I want to prevent injury from muscle imbalances. And also, I kinda just want to have a big deadlift.


Now I do this:

Monday:
Squat 1x5
45 degree back extensions 3x10

Friday:
deadlift 1x5
45 degree back extensions 3x10

It will give my hamstrings time to catch up. Currently my atg squat and dead are equal at 315x5. I'd like deadlift to be about 15% higher than my atg squat though (just a ballpark figure).