20 Pullups? Possible?
One of my goals for this 12 week period is to be able to do 20 pull-ups or chin-ups without stopping.
This goal is definitely harder than I thought, but I am pretty sure I can get there. Right now I am at about 13 pull-ups. So I have a bit of a way to go. I am trying to figure out the best way to train for this. My current plan of attack is just to do pull-ups and chin-ups and often as possible. If I do a biceps workout in the morning, I always add chin-ups. If I do a back workout in the morning I always add chin-ups, and on my second work-out (cardio), I’ll do pull-ups or chin-ups for about 4 sets to failure, pretty close to every day. My thinking here is that the muscle will adapt, just like our legs do to walking and I should be able to do pull-ups like its nothing, eventually.
I did have another idea for increasing pull-ups, which I got from a benchpress tactic. I might try decreasing the amount of time between sets gradually, so that basically there is no time between sets and I can do 20 total. I better invest in a stopwatch if I am going to do this.
