U.S. Marine - 5 tips for easier pull-ups

[pierinifitness]

[MBS]

I like the tip of doing pull-ups and not crossing legs. Can’t do that with a doorway bar though. 

Also, the tip about gripping the bar as wide as possible to shorten rom I wonder about. Isn’t that super wide grip harder on the shoulder cap?

Edit to add: just tried doing one wide group pull-up. My shoulder protested. 

In general, since I’m not chasing numbers, I’d rather do less reps and do them slower, especially the eccentric movement. 

[Michael]

I think they're pretty good tips for pull-up performance. I personally want to feel the muscle working without causing injury. I never had to worry about the hand or grip thing. I always felt from my personal experience that wide grip pullups felt harder to do. They never bothered my shoulders.

[pierinifitness]

I haven't experienced unpleasant feelings doing wide-grip pull-ups or chin-ups. I don't do them often but maybe I'll play around with them. Years ago, I discovered wide-grip chin-ups and took an immediate liking to them.

Currently, I do a pull-ups workout once a week, performing 5 rep rounds and alternating between pull-ups and chin-ups, starting a new round every 2:30 to 3:00 for 20 rounds. This gives me the best of both worlds: some decent volume and quality reps because of ample recovery between rounds. I generally walk during that recovery period. It's working for me.

I thought the tips in the video were excellent. I'm going to play around with the last tip and evaluate.

[MBS]

I’m doing my pullups in the 5-8 rep range, focusing a little more on the eccentric, gtg style, And with less volume than you.

Returning from a 6 week hiatus, where all I did was hike/ scramble. 

Feels good to be back. Hiking less in red rock canyon. Just too damn hot. 

[Michael]

That's pretty much what I'm doing also MBS.

[stuke]

I don't really agree with his do not cross the legs tip. His reasoning seems to moatly be because it is more functional to do it with legs uncrossed - ie better for helping yiu replicate getting over a wall etc which may be uswful for a marine, but ia irrelevant for most of us.
After over 30 years'training with a lot of consistent focus on pull ups and chin ups, I went from 20 years of pull ups, to preferring an underhand grip (ie chin ups). I also found crossed legs allows me to create a sort of stable base that doesn't move, it also really helps when I am using additional weight, I can lock the plates into position better and feel tight and better able to focua on pulling.
That is not to say I haven't done them uncrossed, I have, but my preference is crossed.
Also, not a fan of wide grip. Many bosybuilders sing their praise, but for me, they feel worse, in the same way I always benched with a relatively narrow grip, ut juat feels right for me.