250 Chinups in an Hour

[SamuraiGuy]

So I did the thread title today, and i was wandering what everyone thinks of doing big things like this, it was just to change it up a bit from my usual back/ biceps (more so back) workout. Usually my back workout consists of weighted chinups/pullups, (all different variations) and rows...

Anyone have any thoughts or reasearch on doing things like this, im thinking of trying to get a ton of dips in about an hour, (length of a period).... any thoughts would be cool.

[EmptyneSs]

i dont think things like that are good for you. working out is good, but working out too much wears your body and makes u prone to injury. u want to give your muscles a good workout, u dont want to completely destroy them. also, shorter periods of exercises with higher intensity are much more beneficial than long hours of exercise.

[Broadsword2004]

I think it depends. If you can do 12-15 pullups, you've got pretty much all the strength you'll get from them, so it then becomes a matter of developing muscular endurance.

If you can do a LOT of pullups in one set, then maybe 250 in an hour is okay. Stew Smith, in his workouts for preparation for enlisting in the Navy SEAL BUD/s training or Army Special Forces training, recommends doing 200-300 pushups in sets of 20, 200-300 situps in sets of 50 - 100, 200-300 4-count flutter kicks in sets of @ least 100, and 200-300 pullups, in sets of 10. He recommends doing this 3 days a week (Mon/Wed/Fri).

So I mean, if you do 10 pullups and your back is fried, I wouldn't do 250 in an hour, because then you're "destroying" your muscles 3 times a week; but if you can do 20-30 straight pullups, I'd try doing 20-30 sets of 10 or something like that. But I'd only do it 3 times a week, like he says.

He says the day may come that you have to do 1000 flutter kicks, which he says, if done in the 4-count way, can take 45 minutes. That is one hell of a killer on the abs and hip flexors!!

[SamuraiGuy]

Well your talking about 3 times a week... and this would only be about every other friday, or every 3 fridays... something like that... im not talking about doing it all the time just a way to switch it up. Well I woke up and my arms and back are fried... well not really fried, but I can feel the effects of the workout. I know about all the weight training principles, high intensity, low weight high reps for endurance, high weight low reps for strength, compound movements, endurance, body weight exercises and all that, I was just asking if anybody had done this and what they thought about it, or done something like it, or had thought about it.

And I can do about 20 full dead hang, palms away pullups.... so we were doing sets of about ten until we got to like... 100 or something, then it was 8 , etc.

[HtTKar]

I think its good for you. For better effect you should try to mix up your exercises. If you just do chinups, you will be great at chinups but might lose function somehwere else. Muscles adapt to repetive exercises for that specific exercise. Also if you mix them up you muscles will continue to grow. So instead of doing 500 situps, do 20 different types of situps/crunches in sets of 25.
Instead of doing 250 chinups, you could do 10 arm exercises in sets of 25. Maybe 10 chinups, 10 pullups, 10 pulldowns, 10 pushups, etc. Just mix it up.

With routines like this it gets pretty boring unless you really mix it up and find a way to keep it fun. You also need some motivation...make it a game for those days when you dont really feel like doing it anymore. Thats why I use playing cards. You know, red could be abs, black is arms, jokers and aces are burpess. I've even gotten friends that aren't very fit to go through all these exercises by making it a game. Knowing that there is an end is site makes it all that much easier.

[SamuraiGuy]

Its not that im just doing chinups... I did a wide variety of chinups during this particular workout, whenever I do chinups, every friday... I do a variety and throughout the week I do a variety of other weight lifting type things.... like bench press, deadlifts, farmers walk, shoulders... tricep works... and core strength (far more then just crunches)... soo its not that all Im doing is chinups... oh well, I think I may just do it every 3 weeks or something.