Hey, have you been working out?

[Hauldren Collider]

This is true. 110 lbs.

[Asher]

Pull-ups are easier when you weigh nothing.

[Hauldren Collider]

Do them, Jon. I'm a huge fan of pullups although I kind of have to be since the Marine Corps tests you on pullups... if you're doing them assisted, don't bother. Try them unassisted.

I can do about 9 pull-ups.

[Asher]

Yes.

[Al B. Sure!]

I bet you secretly want Heresson to see it too...

Hey if the wymyn won't appreciate my body, at least the homos can get some enjoyment out of it

(VISUAL enjoyment. NOTHING MORE! )

[MOBIUS]

I bet you secretly want Heresson to see it too...

[Al B. Sure!]

Apparently he likes his men with a bit of puppy fat...

Just for you, MOBIUS, I'll post a new picture in a couple of months when I'm a lean 220lbs.

[MOBIUS]

Apparently he likes his men with a bit of puppy fat...

[Al B. Sure!]

Well I think he wants to have your pooey babies now

Yeah I wasn't aware that he was a homo but apparently he is.

[Provost Harrison]

Well I think he wants to have your pooey babies now

[Al B. Sure!]

It occurred to me...

your joindate shows as 1999, yet it seems as if you only joined a couple months ago.

Heresson, do you know who I am? What my login used to be?

[Provost Harrison]

I normally do a few chinups when I go to the gym. Although I do try and emphasise cardiovascular exercise over weight stuff (I am naturally stocky, the last thing I want is more damn muscle) and I also do a bit of swimming too in addition. I find that swimming can be both very strenuous yet soothing at the same time, which is quite nice.

[Al B. Sure!]

Pull ups are pronated grip (palms away), chin ups are supinated grip (palms facing you); they're the same thing really except chin ups involve your biceps more because your biceps can only go into full flexion from a supinated position.

There's things you have to consider, Jon. As with any movement, if you don't do it for a long time, you lose muscle memory so it becomes more difficult to do that movement, hence why you went from 8 pullups to 1 or 2. However, your basic muscular endurance might not have fallen so dramatically (yes, atrophy occurs, but not as rapidly as the loss of muscle memory). It wouldn't surprise me that if you started knocking out sets of 1 or 2, you very quickly returned back to 8 as your body 're-learned' how to do them efficiently.

There's also the matter of strength. Even if you don't care about your ability to do a pull up (ie- you're not climbing walls any time soon), you're still benefiting from the strengthened muscles gained by doing pullups which involve more muscles than curls or lat pull downs ever could. Even muscles you never would have thought were being worked.

It is anecdotal but check this out... There's a guy who had an EMG that could monitor that amount of activity that occurs in a muscle while working it... he wanted to see what was the ideal exercise for your abdominals (he also has a whole series called "Inside the Muscles" on t-nation.com where he looks at many different muscles). So what exercise got the EMG saying this is the exercise that uses the abs more than any other?

Chinups

http://www.t-nation.com/testosterone-magazine-627#627#best-ab-exercises

Probably the most shocking result of this entire experiment was the level of rectus abdominis activity elicited by a bodyweight chin-up! It beat out any other abdominal exercise, weighted exercises and all, in mean and peak rectus abdominis activity.

[Jon Miller]

Do them, Jon. I'm a huge fan of pullups although I kind of have to be since the Marine Corps tests you on pullups... if you're doing them assisted, don't bother. Try them unassisted.

I don't feel like I did a workout after them, but I just can't do mroe than a couple. Additionally, I don't get much improvement out of them.

Finally, it doesn't seem to improve my fitness, when I did go up to doing a few I dropped down to nothing really fast.

JM

[Jon Miller]

I think I have pullups and chinups confused.

JM