Ask Rip #49
Starting Strength Radio
Mark Rippetoe
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Even if I do three or four pull-ups or chin-ups, I get the elbow pain that lasts for several days that prevents me from doing them more often than maybe once a week. |
| 0:23.0 | Is there any workaround or? |
| 0:24.8 | Well, I don't know. |
| 0:26.1 | I can't answer that because I don't know what you mean by a pull-up. |
| 0:30.3 | Okay. |
| 0:32.1 | Overhand or either. |
| 0:33.8 | This is a pull-up. |
| 0:34.9 | This is a chin-up. |
| 0:35.8 | Right. |
| 0:36.2 | Do you do them dead hang? Yes straight elbows to chest in contact with the bar? |
| 0:43.3 | Not quite chest, no, just chin over the bar. |
| 0:47.3 | Well, then my first suggestion would be to reduce the number of attempt it, because you're doing one or two decent chin-ups and then two |
| 0:58.5 | shitty ones right right and you're doing that how many sets three well why don't you do like 10 |
| 1:05.8 | singles with good form okay and see what happens to that okay and you get 10 singles with good form. Okay. And see what happens to that. |
| 1:11.8 | Okay. |
| 1:12.2 | And you get 10 singles with good form. |
| 1:14.1 | The next time you do chin-ups, do a double and nine singles with good form. |
| 1:20.1 | And then two doubles and eight singles with good form. |
| 1:23.6 | And pretty soon you're doing 10 doubles with good form. |
| 1:26.9 | Okay. |
| 1:30.0 | Sounds good. Thank you. All right. Try that. I don't know what else it could be. Nobody else usually gets trouble just with a few chin-ups. |
| 1:37.3 | You're talking about golfers elbow, right? Are you doing about golfers elbow? Point at it again elbow point at it again is that's not the right |
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