I'm sorry but I don't see how lat pulldowns or bb rows are good progressions to pull-ups. Maybe in the case of capn 400lbs it would be way easier to do lat pulldowns instead of chins but I don't see the point in changing the entire routine for 1% of the population who can't do a controlled negative
I can only speak from my own experience, and I was able to progress from lat pulldowns to pullups. I couldn't do a single pullup (or dip for that matter) when I got my power rack. I had one or two sessions of trying negatives for those exercises. It felt weird and a bit like a waste of time, so did pulldowns for a couple of months....one day tried the pullups and was surprised to see I could do a few. Then I moved to doing them 2-3 times a week.
At one point I forgot that I was training a chick and called inverted rows the fatman chinups. She never tried it again.
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Fuck rows, chins for the wins.
I tried to get a chick to do inverted rows once, because she told me her life goal is to be able to do chins, so I wanted her to work the inverted rows up to real chins. At one point I forgot that I was training a chick and called inverted rows the fatman chinups. She never tried it again.
LOL. Did she come back at all?
5x5 allow you to do a greater volume of work with higher weight than you would with 3x10 2x15 etc. allows you to target fast twitch fibers almost exclusively. whereas anything above 5x5 would get into your slow twitch increasing fatigue and adaption time. but adaption would obviously be greater IF you could do the same weight 3x10 ...but then recovery and adaption / growth would take longer.
summary from my fleck / kraemer book thing
What about 10x3, that's even more volume at a higher weight
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