#424: Do Pull Ups Suck, Is 1 Set to Failure the Best Way to Train, Is Stress Killing Your Gains?
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Pull ups are on every top 10 exercise list out there. But does that mean they're really that great? Are they building your back or destroying your shoulders, elbows and wrists? Is there a better option?
What about doing 1 set to failure versus a bunch of lower intensity sets? Are you wasting your time in the gym by doing too much and killing your gains in the process? Or is there a happy medium?
Discover the shocking truth about these subjects and more in today's episode.
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| 1:15.0 | today. My man Leonard is back on the show. Let's kick it off. All right. So first up, we |
| 1:21.5 | got my man. Big germ got insta. He has our pull ups and necessary exercise. I suck at |
| 1:28.7 | them. So pull ups are not a necessary exercise. You know, people say they are, they're always |
| 1:33.9 | on every top 10 exercise list, right? They're basic. They're functional. They're primal |
| 1:38.4 | cavemen. We're doing them all the things. I've even said that I've written that. I get |
| 1:42.9 | it. It's a cool message. It's way cooler than doing pull downs. Hard to argue with that. |
| 1:48.6 | You know, people get behind all those primal basic. But here's the reality. Most people |
| 1:53.6 | don't have the mobility to do the meaning. They can't get both arms simultaneously overhead |
| 1:59.0 | without really arching their back, lifting up the ribcage. And what that does is that just |
| 2:03.9 | causes some issues for a lot of people in terms of, you're going to lead to, especially |
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