I'm currently doing the Twenty Pull-ups program, which seems to be a website sponsored by a pull-up bar manufacturer and has ripped off the plan from the principles of the various "[X number] of [Y exercise]" plans, but it's a decent plan and seems to be boosting my numbers (though not as sharply as the plan thinks they should, so I'm going to be re-doing some weeks at a different level).
There's also the fighter pull-up program, which I might try at some future point (though not every day, because I know that would work badly for me).
I can always use the extra upper body strength for climbing (I am weak relative to most people I climb with), so wanted to see if I can give it a bit of a boost, especially as I'm going on a climbing trip at the end of the month.
Oh, side-note: some people (I am one of them) find they get elbow tendonitis from doing lots of pull-ups.
This is actually incredibly fixable -- there's a set of specific rehab/prehab exercises which have a magical effect (Sekrit Climber Knowledge! okay, just stuff that doesn't seem to be so widely known outside the elbow-tendonitis-prone climbing field). I knew doing a pull-up program would make my elbows stressed, so I just spend a few extra minutes doing said exercises to keep my tendons happy.
If you get any elbow twinges (hopefully you won't), let me know and I'll start throwing links at you. *g*
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I'm currently doing the Twenty Pull-ups program, which seems to be a website sponsored by a pull-up bar manufacturer and has ripped off the plan from the principles of the various "[X number] of [Y exercise]" plans, but it's a decent plan and seems to be boosting my numbers (though not as sharply as the plan thinks they should, so I'm going to be re-doing some weeks at a different level).
There's also the fighter pull-up program, which I might try at some future point (though not every day, because I know that would work badly for me).
I can always use the extra upper body strength for climbing (I am weak relative to most people I climb with), so wanted to see if I can give it a bit of a boost, especially as I'm going on a climbing trip at the end of the month.
Oh, side-note: some people (I am one of them) find they get elbow tendonitis from doing lots of pull-ups.
This is actually incredibly fixable -- there's a set of specific rehab/prehab exercises which have a magical effect (Sekrit Climber Knowledge! okay, just stuff that doesn't seem to be so widely known outside the elbow-tendonitis-prone climbing field). I knew doing a pull-up program would make my elbows stressed, so I just spend a few extra minutes doing said exercises to keep my tendons happy.
If you get any elbow twinges (hopefully you won't), let me know and I'll start throwing links at you. *g*