Dr. Bret Contreras
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But you'd be like, okay, I have this chin-up goal.
I want to get 20 chin-ups.
How am I going to get there best?
I'm going to start doing more chin-ups.
Maybe you don't like chin-ups all the time, so you do heavy supinated pull-downs.
I've realized they transfer.
There's like a one-to-one correlation.
I never realized that until the last couple of years.
supinated, treating it like a chin-up.
You can recover quickly from those.
So you can do chin-ups or pull-downs three times a week.
But what else will help your chin-ups?
Training more biceps.
When I have my female clients start doing barbell curls and easy bar curls, their chin-ups went up.
So it has its own rules.
When you focus on like the chin-up month, you can hit these movements frequently.
You can recover from them.
But what about deadlifts?
If I said you're going to focus on deadlifts this month, I don't know many lifters that can deadlift really hard twice a week.
They beat you up, especially when you get strong.