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@jabba1495 Your form looks great. I think maybe your form, speed and ROM improved (i.e. got harder) and that’s why you don’t see as much improvement in your number of repetitions as you’d expect?

@forscher As someone who struggles with biceps tendonitis and cubital tunnel syndrome I recommend to better hold in the 90° position (i.e. biceps horizontal) or even lower. Much safer position and it’s still time under tension.

@glossdot Can’t you just go for a run or ride a bike or something? In any case I kind of doubt you’ll see much benefit from only 10 minutes of “cardio”. Which system is this supposed to train? What do you want to achieve?

@joelburntout +1, the nice thing about rows is that they are also far less injury prone. For some reason I also always felt that deadlifts and overhead press had a small but positive impact on my pull-up progression.

@staygold Maybe I’m extrapolating too much from my own experience. I always had lower leg issues with running. Achilles tendonitis, shin splints, inflamed ankle ligaments. Never managed to run more than 70km/week for years. Visited several doctors, physiotherapists, running trainers. I was...

@daydreamerr Never worked for me, nor for my sisters or my girlfriend.

@resemblethatremark I know a lot of people who struggle to run more than 60km or 70km per week without injuries. Shin splints, metatarsal bone stress fractures, achilles tendonitis, ITBS, patella tendonits … all that shit. Running is a beautiful sport, but unfortunately it puts a lot of stress...

@action238 There is no way a 82kg, fully grown man is surviving on ≤1600kcal/day while being physically active and generally moving around. You must be counting too few calories. Or you are actually on a deficit and losing weight. If you were lying in bed all day and had low muscle mass it might...

@mordinsky He didn’t say that but what you are saying makes sense. Kind of sucks though because that kind of experimentation is really difficult. If I do 5 sets of 5 reps for 10 weeks and don’t see a lot of improvement in strength and then I switch to 10 sets of 8 reps and after 3 more weeks I...

@deezynah I’m surprised I had to scroll down this far.

@action238 Those numbers sound way too low. I’m 66kg, eating about 2500kcal per day and not gaining weight. On off days I only do about 30 minutes of bicycle commute (~300kcal) and half an hour of walking. Every other day or so I go climbing (doesn’t burn much since you spend so much time...

@tresmantra Ultra marathon runners are genetic freaks with an unnatural resistance against overuse injuries. When I was still able to run I would have been soooo happy just to run 70km per week without injuries.

@keziahnz OP is asking why the recommendations differ. Understanding why (and the purpose of training sessions) can lead to greater understanding you won’t get by just trying random things. Besides, running tests on a sample size of one over weeks and months is damn difficult and time consuming...

@keziahnz Lol, what kind of advice is that? Taken literally you’d throw decades of sport science into the garbage bin and just “do your thing”, whatever that means. Of course you don’t have to listen to random people on the internet or even people who wrote their PhD about the topic. They are...

@bobgunn Legumes are your best friend. Lentils, chickpeas, peanuts, soy (tofu), beans … Just replace all the rice and grains in your life with legumes.

@jw552 This. I’d also like to know how close to failure they are at the end of a “set” and how quickly and how complete they can recover. For example I could probably do 10 sets of pull-ups, each close to failure. But the last set would maybe have 2 or 3 bad repetitions while the first one has...

@khohanguc The 90 90 stretch and splits.

@dawn16 Let’s say reasonably fit people who regularly do abdominal/core muscle training and have a normal body weight. Of course with planks the form and muscle engagement makes a huge difference.

@kaylen500 Get one of those cantilever pull-up bars: https://djd1xqjx2kdnv.cloudfront.net/photos/33/91/460628_29311_XXL.jpg Much less likely to damage the doorframe and much more secure than the extending pole design.

@landon13 Same here. I’ve been doing 3 sets of 20 push-ups (full ROM all the way to the floor, nice and slow) several times per week for months and it hardly gets easier. On a good day I might be able to do 23 or even 25 reps but it feels kind of risky for the triceps.