Anyone else really really shit at pullups?

6'2 ~186 skinnyfat dyel
14 good form medium grip pullups max, usually do 12-13/9-10/7/7/5-6
with 2:30 rest
i wish i could do weighted :s

Been using Justa type programming for them, but with no maxing out. They always fucked up my elbows & upper back if I went to failure, and nothing else seemed to work.

Started at 1 rep (quite easy, if I wasn't doing this at the end of a workout), using a neutral grip since it felt the best. Add 1 set of a single rep each day that week. Really short rests, as little as 20s. Add 5lbs each week until I complete 4 weeks, then switch to doubles. & so on. After working up to sets of 5, I swapped over to regular pullups, and then to wide grip some months later.

I can probably do 100+ for about 5-6 reps now, but it feels better overall to just slap a plate on and crank out 30-50 total reps with lower rep sets

How wide is your grip? I can do 3-4 with medium width grip on a good day, same height/weight. I do a lot of banded pull-ups and negatives though.

for me pic related helped me get my first 2 pull ups without doing any negatives

how wide is your lat spread?

also, that pulldown machine is fantastic for extra volume on back day. That bitch made me wide

Question, do you guys actually really feel your back muscles when you train them? I never do.

No one can be "shit" at pullups, they're one of the most basic exercises around

Youre either weak, or fat. Your thread should be "anyone really weak or fat"

Haven't measured but I'm wide AF, technically my lat spread is more than double the width of my torso

For a month, add in a isolation exercise for something you don't "feel" Don't make it about the weight, just the sensataion of just that muscle/group.

After about a month, start keeping that sensation in your head when you hit something that includes that muscle/group; use the isolation before/between sets just to remember it.

Like tension, once learned it's a lot less effort