A general for fellow anons across all disciplines of fitness to discuss plateaus and stalls in their work that may be ignored in their respective generals or ignored in their own threads.List what you're stuck on and other helpful anons who may have overcome a similar situation can share their experiences and methods to overcome it.I'm personably stuck on pull-ups. The end goal was to try and get to muscle up territory. I can easily rip get myself up to chest high from a full stretch hang.I can do 6 pull-ups, but it feels like it's 6 and then absolutely nothing. Not 7 with a bit of kipping, not 6 and a half.just 1-2-3-4-5-6 and nothing. It's been like this for what feels like a month.I've also lost bf% so I feel like i should be able to do more just based on that alone. OR... is that the issue? Im doing pullups with less weight than when i started?
Hard to say with pull ups bro because you lost bodyfat so you are lighter but you also probably lost a bit of strength when you did that but who knows if the trade off was worth. If u are doing everything else decently ur probs progressing imo. Especially if other back lifts are going up
>>75731043MIke Israetel said progressing by increaseing reps is way harder than with weightExample: if your bodyweight is 180 lbs, then adding one more rep on the pull up is like trying to get 180 lbs strongerBut if you just added 5 lbs to your weight belt, for 6 reps you only need to get 30 lbs strongeradding reps just takes a long long time.
>>75731341>>75731354the more i read, the more I'm thinking I'm not doing enoughlike i'll do sets, hit failure and move on. Not going back to squeeze out a few more reps, not doing enough to hold at the top or focusing on the negative I've just relied to much on up-down-up-down, 1, 2, 3, 4I'm going to hold a few more, decrease my decent speed at the expense of total reps. do more dead-hangs, be more explosive, grease the groove on other days.
>>75731365no, you need to do less
>>75731354Who give a fuck what that fat midget thinksI stalled on bench a few months ago so I gave up on it and decided to work on machines and arm isolations. I went back to 2pl8 and I got 12 which is the same a I got before I stalled, so with a couple of months of dedicated benching maybe I'd get that 3pl8
yeah pull up progression feels like grinding a wall kinda, but I'm in a deficit so idk how much it means (all my other shit could progress tho)i can do 3 sets of 9 reps with the last rep of the last set always requiring "cheating"there's a couple things to try like band-assist high rep one day and weighted low rep the other day. but i haven't had the motivation to, probably when i bulk I'll try it
