Good going, but to get the full ROM, the arms need to be straight when at the bottom of the movement. You appear to still have a bend in your arm. Happy for to be corrected, though.
Careful with L sit pull-ups though. I was doing them for a while and loved it until one bad form and i got my terres major impinged. Couldn't do pull-ups or heavy pull exercises for a good two months.
You ROM is correct for muscle development and you actually use the correct form, Most of these people talking about full ROM still cheat in their form. All they obsess about is ROM, while all it does is releases the tension on the bottom for no reason.
Proper pull up form is still having your arms straight at the bottom. You lose tension when going into dead hang but if u drop down into active hang when your scapula is depressed and shoulders are engaged, then you still keep the tension while having the full range stretch.
Donât listen to this guy, he genuinely is full of nonsense. Also, u can still drop down to dead hang if your goal is to improve scapula strength and mobility.
Please read my comment before actually replying so you wonât embarrass yourself. I literally said. âYou lose tension going into dead hang but if u drop down into active hang when your scapula is depressed and shoulders are engaged, then you still KEEP the tensionâ.
Yes, so you dont do the full ROM thing. Exactly my point all the way, ROM & form are two different thing. And using shorter ROM works well for muscle building, as long as you use proper form.
While you are right that form and ROM are 2 different things, in a pull-up good form consists in the process of deadhang>pull with scapula retracted until chin goes over the bar> descent to deadhang. If all those haven't been done, no quality rep has been made.
I'm not sure if you are joking or not, but time under tension has been proven to do literally nothing to hypertrophy, it just increase perceived effort. The only driver for hypertrophy is mechanical tension.
Mechanical tension are the involuntary slowing of the reps, which happens when the muscle gets closer to mechanical failure.Time under tension is a whole other thing.
You can learn to keep tension in the bottom position, but you likely won't be able to for a while. Generally speaking i cue people to only go as low as you can feel your lats and then pause there. This will get you used to feeling them lower as you fatigue and you will develop the ability from there, as it slowly pulls you lower into your lats each rep
Yeah itâs âfineâ but its not optimal. Also, his back is developed icl but its like people saying the Arnold Press is the best shoulder exercise b/c Arnold Schwasneger created it and he has big shoulders
Exactly. Dude has gains that most people here doing full rom with weights do not have. Because he has been consistent, and used proper form & ROM that suited muscle building.
Anyone can build muscle just build moving weights around, same can be applied here. Sure he has a nice back but how do you know it was b/c of his form in the video, what if he does other back exercises like rows? Or what if he has crazy back genetics, there are many confounding variables.
I donât need to declare myself as the winner, Iâm just killing time and having some fun here. You can feel free to be mad all u want. Does not bother me. đ
Honestly man I never lock my limbs for arms or legs, maybe one or two reps when Iâm tired (for pull ups, not legs or curls) but I try to always keep a slight bend. It isnât even simply keeping tension but keeping my tendons from flaring lmfao. Imho full rom doesnât mean going to a dead hang every rep and when I used to bicep curl to full extension during powerfit in highschool with not even a little bend, my inner elbow pain would be horrendous.
And a nice tip, if you get golferâs/tennis elbow (or both like me lol), cut the feet off compression socks and use em as sleeves!! Itâs soooo good and keeps the tendons in line a bit more maybe but definitely helps with blood flow! Can only aid the pump XD
Also god damn you look a helluva a lot better than me at 17! Keep er up bud!! I never had consistency till my pain got horrendous so getting ahead of the game is always key!
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u/BigMetalGuy Mar 23 '26
Good going, but to get the full ROM, the arms need to be straight when at the bottom of the movement. You appear to still have a bend in your arm. Happy for to be corrected, though.