Pull Ups

[Little76]

No, Im not sure you understand what I said correctly .
When I first started doing pullups, I wanted to get 1x15. So at the end of my work outs Id give it a go. It started off like 5,3,3. Then over the coming few months I reached my goal 15,12,10. Done.

After that I stopped going to failure, and started working towards reps and sets.
the first was 3 x 8 with just my body weight. I did that, so the next workout was 3 x 10.

Once I got that, I added weight.

bodyweight + 5kg 3x8. When I did that I moved to bodyweight +5kg 3 x 10

Once I got that, I added more weight.

Bodyweight +10kg 3x8. When I did that, I moved to +10kg 3x10

My new goal Is +25kg 3 x 12.

[oldnsedentary]

My new goal Is +25kg 3 x 12.

That is a lot of weight to hold between your knees. I took yesterday and today off of lifting weights because of a terrible head pain when I was lifting (posted a thread in workouts), but I wanted to try your suggestion out this morning, so I selected 6 reps (about half of my 13, like 8 was about half of your fifteen). I did 6, then 6, then on the third one went ahead and did 9 (failure). Felt weird to stop before failure on the first two, but at least my head was not hurting.

Should I try 8, 8, and 8 next time?

I wonder how many bodyweight pull ups you can do now after building up your strength by adding weight? Have you tried?

I am still not sure I understand the reason for not training to failure on every set.

[oldnsedentary]

No, Im not sure you understand what I said correctly .
When I first started doing pullups, I wanted to get 1x15. So at the end of my work outs Id give it a go. It started off like 5,3,3. Then over the coming few months I reached my goal 15,12,10. Done.

After that I stopped going to failure, and started working towards reps and sets.
the first was 3 x 8 with just my body weight. I did that, so the next workout was 3 x 10.

Once I got that, I added weight.

bodyweight + 5kg 3x8. When I did that I moved to bodyweight +5kg 3 x 10

Once I got that, I added more weight.

Bodyweight +10kg 3x8. When I did that, I moved to +10kg 3x10

My new goal Is +25kg 3 x 12.

Added a 5 pound dumbell for 10, 9, and 8 this morning.