Wide Chin ups

[Ectoman]

Sorry fellars that I'm posting another post here but this the creme de la creme of my life body building. My question is.........Starting a back exercise with chins, how is the best way to start? Do I need to do some light pulldowns for my lats before I do chin ups? Because I can only just chin up my body weight I do my chins in this way as follows.............

1 set 5 reps
3 sets 4 reps

It's a tricky one knowing the right formula for your back to get it to respond and know how to make it grow but by heck, I would love some suggestions please. Plus I always use good form. Thanks :

[pseudonym]

yup I'd go with some light lat pulldowns or bent over rows follow something like the warmup the Max-OT program advocates ad I rekon you can't go too far wrong (not sold on the whole workout just yet but the warmups are the bomb )

here's a basic idea (lat pulldown ... assume your max is 100lbs - for ease of figures )

12 reps @ 20lbs
10 reps @ 30lbs
6 reps @ 40lbs
3 reps @ 50lbs
1 rep @ 60 or 70 lbs

then have at it using your max weight (for me, having used the good old 'set of 15 at c.65%max weight' as a warmup I have noticed my working max weights rise noticeably). As a warmup for chins I don't see why it should be different, just do some chins afterwards instead of max weight pulldowns

hope this was helpful.