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Old 12-24-2014, 10:32 AM  
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
Maybe some guys do that...but the BIG guys like Dorian Yates, Ronnie Coleman, etc, say differently in their articles that I've read when I was learning to work out correctly.
It's about exhausting a muscle. And doing pullups just doesn't require that kind of rest period.

Yeah...maybe doing super heavy squats or massively heavy bench. But doing pullups? No way you would rest 3 minutes. You might as well just go home.

Except its not about exhausting the muscle on every single set. High rep work with little rest also induces sarcoplasmic hypertrophy (pump/volumizing effect of the muscle and is temporary), not myofibrillar hypertrophy. Myofibrillar is what grows the muscle.

A pull up is a compound movement not a concentration movement, they are very different. You would want to rest a minimum of 30 seconds between pull up sets especially if you're going to failure each time. Weighted pull ups are a whole nother ball game
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