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First of all - be careful to not wreck your elbows.
That said, there are a handful of things to try: add weight - fairly straightforward.
Train different grip positions/width etc. Palms facing/facing away, narrow grip and wide grip.
Do offsets (one hand higher than the other). One of the easiest ways to do it is by hanging a towel over the bar and using that as the lower grip. Good work on your grip too. You can also swap the towel for a resistance band, but it’s a lot harder than with a towel as it’s basically a one arm chin-up minus whatever assistance the band can provide (which often isn’t much).
Do negatives - jumping to the top position and doing a controlled lowering, do these when you can no longer complete a rep normally. You can also do them with 1 arm for a particularly savage workout, NB doing one arm negatives is fairly traumatic so do it as the main part of the workout rather than at the end.
Superset bicep curls before doing chins so that your back is having to do more of the work.
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pull ups - be careful to not wreck your elbows
Yup... This was me
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Some really good pointers here, thank you. Also thanks @zooeyzooey for the link to that program.
Plenty of rest between sessions should hopefully keep me from blowing up my elbows, fingers crossed.
I have been mixing up between under and neutral grip, need to throw in more overhand ones but I REALLY struggle with wide overhand, my shoulders really don't like that.
The towel offsets sound properly hardcore so look forward to trying those out. Will do a progress (or not!) report in 6 weeks or so. Thanks again!
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ElGonzo
Any tips for overcoming plateaus doing chin ups? I've been stuck at 18 for some time now.
Time for some weighted ones at lower reps?