I Can’t Do a Chin-Up after 6 Months

Narrow your grip up and train your forearms more. I guarantee your chinups look like total shit too. The mechanics for your lats aren't that different and they should be able to generate enough power to get you through at least a few pullups in spite of your pathetic girl forearms. In the mean time, stop sucking at chinups and do them right, and do some overhand elbow flexion.

Here is now (a week ago)

I’ve been doing Phraks GSLP the whole time

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I weigh around 170 (although I'm 6'2") and started lifting without being able to do a single chin-up. Now, after about roughly 3 months, I'm doing sets of 3x5+ (I'm gonna try 3x10 soon) and can do normal pull-ups 3x5.

The assisted thing helped but the majority of it was building my lats, chest, and core. Negatives helped a lot more than the assisted in my opinion. I would recommend doing dumbbell exercises and push-ups every single day, at least that's what I did.

Also you look fat, what is your routine? You should probably start doing some fucking cardio.

Never mind just saw your routine. If you like how you look and your performance so far then stick with it, if I were you I'd ditch it right fucking now.

That's why dumbass. Youre smoking yourself on bench and curls and youre trying to lift something 30lbs heavier than when you started.

Not trying to be rude but ya getting a little chubby there. What's your other lifts looking like? How exactly are you training your chins?
phraks is bretty good lp. I'd put in some accs but it's a great base

My chin-up form is not bad. My head goes perfectly above the bar

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> Using machines
There is your problem friend, the assisted machine doesn't train half the muscles you actually use whilst doing chin ups/pull ups.
Listen to these faggots and do negatives (jump up, grab the bar, lower yourself all the way down with full control, repeat) until you can do at least one, and grease the groove your way to doing proper pull ups for reps.

>Not trying to be rude but ya getting a little chubby there
Nah, you’re totally right. That’s why I’m cutting right now
>what are your other lifts like?
OHP 3x5 75 pounds (started at 30)
Bench 3x5 110 pounds (started at 45)
Barbell Rows 3x5 110 pounds (started at 45)
Deadlift 1x5 250 pounds (started at 145)

As you can probably tell from my starting lifts, I have really poor strength genetics

Yeah but if you're unable to do pullups, it tells me you aren't properly using your lats. Don't try to be a know it all when you suck at what you're doing.

Good idea with cutting for a while. As you say yourself your lifts aren't fantastic for 6 month but it's great you kept going even if you started a rough place. You might have poor strenght genetics, I can't say, but I'd be curious about how your progression schreme and deload looks. With stats like that you have either deloaded a ton of times or are afraid to fail reps. I'd recommend you look into the deloading scheme of SS since gslp is a bit aggresive with it iirc

how much time have you been lifting? 6 months?

>be a manlet
>5’05” and 150lbs
>can do over 25 strict pullups
>feels good man

are you eating enough protein? drinking a lot of water? sleeping enough? I don't want to demotivate you but your progress has been slow for 6 months. If you are doing everything right, you should maybe consider getting your T levels checked.

I eat 135-150g per day every day
I get 8 hours of sleep minimum

I can’t even grow beard hair yet so maybe you’re right about the T levels

I don’t reload really, I just stall a lot of the time

It’s kind of discouraging, so I’m looking for a new program

I've been at this for 3 weeks and I can still only do 1.5 chin ups.

Coming up on 6 months in a week

>progress is poor for 6 months

Really? I thought I was doing OK. Damn.

What should my lifts look like? Should I change my program?

60 seconds total static hold. Hold it at the top, not from a hang.

Can you do that everyday?

no, not normal

run the SS program as written, if you're doing everything it tells you to do and linear progress is not happening move to intermediate programming

yes, your lifts are low for a move to intermediate programming to be necessary, but you may just have poor genetics for strength or be a really small guy or something

Why couldn't you? You're trying to adapt your muscles to properly engage, and the key with adaptation is you need to do it a lot to really get your body in tune with doing it. Based on OP's pictures, simply not being fat means he should be capable of doing pullups, he just hasn't built on that mind muscle connection enough to do so, which would be solved by doing a shitload of isometics and dead hangs day after day, multiple times a day.

I think I have to work on my back. My latissimus dorsi on my right side hurts after barely doing 1 and half chin ups.

that bench is atrocious even for 6 months

If u want you can do chin-Ups every day. They are not so hard on the nervous system overall and using high reps is something that i found out worked.

Few years back when I lived at parents my father chopped an old rusty curl bar and welded it to garage ceiling. When i started doing chin-ups i could only get 4 but i started doing them 3-5 times to failure every day and after a month I managed to do 18.

I was able to hit:
OHP 3x5 80 pounds
Bench 3x5 120 pounds
Barbell rows 3x5 135 pounds
Deadlift 1x5 180 pounds
Pullups 3
Chinups 8

after 1 month of gspl and I was recovering from a broken collarbone. You are doing something wrong.

Man I'm not sure how you're going wrong. I actually just did my first chin up a few days ago after about a couple months of Jow Forumsbodyweightfitness' recommended routine and one month of using a pull up bar. What I did was one set of five negative chin ups, one set of five negative hammer pull ups, and one set of five negative pull ups three times per week.

got my new pr yesterday
12 dead hang pullups

not gonna stop until I get to 20

I do a 100 pulls/day. My longest streak being 26. In December I could only do about about 5-10. Just do negatives til faliure and then just hang straight from the bar til faliure. DONT do the assisted ones. It not gonna be able to control the arch in Ur back the correct way. Instead hang under the bar in push-up form and pulls half your weight (pic related)

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Do you feel yourself failing in any area in particular? Like grip strength, biceps, lats.
Train the area that is failing you
If not just do lat pulldowns 5x5 until you near you get to within 20 pounds of your weight

I can do more pull ups than chin ups.
Whats wrong with me?

This is overkill, also if you do 26 of them you don’t do them with good form so stop being delusional. You’re like that dudes that brag about doing 100 push ups in a row.

how are you that weak. i was able to do 13 proper form chin ups @ 5'9 142, totally DYEL. I can do even more now at 163

>in jail
>having pushup contests
>Cape Verdean named Benny claims he can do 1000 pushups in an hour
>this dude is LITERALLY retarded
>like a 60iq at best, stutters constantly, has made gains in a year that others have made in a month, brags about stealing bikes (not motorbikes, just bikes)
>literally fucked his own sister on Cape Verde (somehow by accident?) and brags about it too
>everybody is constantly telling Benny to shut up
>he says he'll prove it to us
>basically does 3 actual pushups with good form and then does an extremely jerky series of planks for about 15 minutes
>50 year old Army Ranger with a rap sheet a mile long, there for another dui named Hollywood
>Hollywood is built like a tank, but has some severe shoulder problems
>muscles through the entire hour, manages to complete the challenge in just under the time limit with perfect form
>one corner of the yard erupts in laughter at Benny
>Benny comes back, tries to challenge him to more things, like lifting the exercise bike, lifting other people, and pullups
>loses at every single one

Last I saw, he was still being held on a $500 bail because his family had basically disowned him.

Do this

50pullups.com/

It's just sets of negatives, but it worked for me.

Three days a week, 2 minutes rest between sets, every two weeks you test yourself and see how many you can do.

It might take you a few more weeks/months but you'll get there.

it means you have weak brachioradialis. do hammer curls
t. actually knows what they are talking abouit

>hurrr I'm too fat and weak to do it properly so that means nobody can

He didn't say he did then in 10 seconds flat you autistic faggot.

Even with weak forearms, he should be able to muscle through a pullup if he's doing 9 proper form chinups. He's just a dumbass who thinks the only important part of a chin up is getting your chin over the bar, not actually using his lats properly.

You're gaining way too much weight. Slow down.

Tfw couldn't do a chin up month ago and today did 3 and I'm a girl on a cut
Do negatives slowly, do quarter and half reps, bands help with learning movement but help too much at the bottom so I stopped using them after a while

Try harder, you're probably psyching yourself out. Don't be a bitch.

Low iq can't into lifting
Who would have guessed?
Be more specific about what you want to do.