Biggest mistakes people make when lifting weights

[dswithers]

that's interesting. Would it be okay if you could do more pullups than benching your weight? I can see how that might be bad the other way around.

First, I don't think you could ever do too many pullups or that doing nothing but pullups would cause a problem, since you are only using your body weight and pullups, like any exercise that moves the torso through space, require a lot of support from almost every other muscle in your body. That is why pullups are more taxing than pulldowns.

Second, if you are doing 12+ reps on either pullups or bodyweight bench presses (and you should if you are a reasonably fit male), it becomes largely an endurance exercise and not a strength movement, so the chance of muscle imbalance and/or joint/connective tissue damage is pretty low.

 

[illiniphase4]

First, I don't think you could ever do too many pullups or that doing nothing but pullups would cause a problem, since you are only using your body weight and pullups, like any exercise that moves the torso through space, require a lot of support from almost every other muscle in your body. That is why pullups are more taxing than pulldowns.

Second, if you are doing 12+ reps on either pullups or bodyweight bench presses (and you should if you are a reasonably fit male), it becomes largely an endurance exercise and not a strength movement, so the chance of muscle imbalance and/or joint/connective tissue damage is pretty low.

True, though I've seen a lot of people out there that only do a couple sets of 12 pull-ups at their own body weight and then go crazy with weights on the bench press, which essentially maintains the shoulders and back and lets the chest get a stronger, creating the imbalance.

 

[Danger_Dave]

definitely can't rep my body weigh 12 times on bench...

 

[theGOOCH]

I guess I'm dead on
I'm 190 and I currently work out on bench with 205 (I think my reps were 12,12,11,11 today) and I hang 15 from my belt for pullups (12,10,9,8 last time)