I keep reading that when doing a speciality program one should just do maintenance for other body parts. I realize this may be a stupid question, but what’s maintenace? I understand the thoery, but what should I actually be doing in the weight room?
The program I want to do is Thib’s Keep Your Chin Up. I can only manage one chin at the moment, and that’s just not acceptable. All he says about other training is not to do additional upper back work.
If you’re a beginner, you don’t need to be doing any kind of specialization program. You’re most likely weak all over, not just in the chin-up. If you do chins in every session, as many as you can crank out rest-pause style, that should help. For instance, do a chin, rest for as long as you need to be able to do another, then do another…etc. If you can get two in a set, do two. Eventually you’ll be able to do multiple chins in a set.
What the above dude suggested is called ‘Grease the groove’. Basically, it’s 2 sets of 5 of an excersice every time you lift. Work up to two sets of five. I’d say do rest-pause to 5, then work up from there i.e. do two, rest pause and crank out more until you can do 2x5.
I was planning to do 10x3 for fat loss after I was comfortable with chins. Should I just stick chins (at this point a chin and negatives) before everything else, or should I try a different program? I’ve already done two rounds of TBT and enjoyed it, but I’d like to try something new.
[quote]OneEye wrote:
If you do chins in every session, as many as you can crank out rest-pause style, that should help. For instance, do a chin, rest for as long as you need to be able to do another, then do another…etc. If you can get two in a set, do two. Eventually you’ll be able to do multiple chins in a set.[/quote]
I ended up doing this and BBB, and it worked. I cranked out a set of 7 chins yesterday! Thanks!