Hello,

Have been doing pull ups for almost 5 months now and I am stuck at 12-13 max pull ups. I have been doing weighted pull ups for a while. I am 72 kg and I use 6 - 10 kg weights thinking that implementing weighted pull ups will help me break this disturbing plateau and help me move on my way. But it does not look like it helps. What do you think? Is this the right way to pass the plateau? Or what is the right way?

I do not know if this is a stupid question but, what is the difference between strenght, endurance and power. I read those terms alot but what makes them different?

For instance which one, one needs to improve in order to achieve a muscle up?

Thank you.

You can try to increase the number of sets. Also density training sounds good, although I haven't tried it yet. You can get more info in this threads:

http://bar-barians.forumotions.net/t3951-calisthenics-exercises-from-beginner-to-advanced

http://twentypullups.com/

Hope it helps

Hi thanks for all the replies.

I will try everything to hit 20 pull ups in a couple of months.

Well , I do a total of 55-60 pull ups on each workout. After a one day rest after my last workout, today, for the first time, I did a total of 81 pull ups 31 of this was with 5 kg weight and 19 was with 10kg of weight, the rest was without any weight and also did other things like hanging leg raises, push ups etc..I keep a notebook and try to watch my improvement. I will do the other workout after one day passes. So I work out everyother day for the pull ups and push ups, dips, negatives etc...I workout on the other days and so on. So I try to balance it self styled. I mostly listen my body and I think this is the bast method. yea?

I feel like I started to do first 7-8 pull ups much more easily and smoothly than before but after I pass 8 it starts to be harder and 12-13 is my max for now. But I think if I started to do the first few pull ups easier I think this shows that something is happening and better days will come

I also am trying to train for the muscle up. Doing lots of negatives. Do you think that this would help me on my feature improvement in terms of getting a muscle up? Like if I train for the negatives and get stronger at that, when I am more strong at the pull up stage, will I be more easily go up over the bar? What is your oppinion about this?

I am too determined to achieve a level that I can fulfill the bar-barians requirements. But the question is, how and when? Hehe

Doing the 1st pull ups easier means that ur power increased from weighted pull ups so u feel the unweighted easier and of course ur endurance is a bit better than before.

If u continue with pull ups and add some more weight in ur weighted pull ups it will help u for sure to achieve muscle up. Also one good way to train for muscle up is explosive pull ups. Juts try to pull as high as possible, this will help u pull high so the transition to dip will be easier in the muscle up.
Negatives helps for sure to understand the movement also jumping muscle ups (find a bar that u can touch without jumping and then try to muscle up but helping also with ur legs).

Hope it helps

i realised that 12 pullups are a plateau for many people i've came across including myself. how i broke dis plateau is simply doing fatigue cycling ( 5 clapping pushups, 10 diamond pushups, 15 elevated feet pushups, 20 standard pushups was what i did) three or more times a day. Basically its just increasing the reps while decreasing the difficulty of the exercise( u can alter the reps and difficulty of the exercise if what i did was too simple for you). Do this for about 2 weeks and see how it goes, i took about 3 weeks and simply increased my max rep from 12-15 without doing much pullups. You dont have to worry about overtraining or not letting ur body have sufficient time to recover cuz ure doing this 3 times over a period of 24hrs (note* this is not considered as a daily workout just an addition to ur workout).

Also work on your dips for the muscle-up. This is what will help the top half of the movement. The generally accepted rule is the 20/20 rule. Basically if you can do twenty pullups and twenty dips you should be able to do a muscle-up.
Keep it up, man!

No worries mate we're all a community here together facing the same bar.

For the most part i'm the same as you & train alone, (though occasionally I do get to meet up with the UK Barbarians Lee and Jay) and you're right, it can be a real struggle at times, but persevere and you'll get to be like zef one day

Like Zef? Maybe in 5 years I can get close...