Functional Weights

[ono]

A question on pull ups. Now i know alot of bodyweight exercises you can perform everyday without decimating your muscles. Does this go for pull ups also?

Also, i know this is a real noob question, but i might as well ask it. I know pull ups are mostly for lats and back, Chin ups mainly work...*fill in the blank* thanks.

You can do Pullups every day... if you have a good post workout nutrition. Also chinups works forearms, biceps and shoulder.

Depends on the intensity and number of sets etc.....


For the purpose of building muscle, if he's working to failure every day then it's a bad idea. He's not allowing his muscles to rest. Without rest they won't grow.


For endurance purposes, providing he isn't going anywhere near failure (i.e working between 50%-65% of his max rep range) then it's ok......but even then he would require a rest every now and again.

[Salty]

Yeah mate that's common sense, you shouldn't go 100% on a muscle group every day, but for boxer's targeting the muscle groups every day with varying levels of intensly can be very benificial as we need much more conditioning than your run of the mill body builder. After all we don't want to gain mass (most of us) but just increase strength, power and endurance of the muscle, aka make them as efficient as possible.