Why do people hardly do pullups or dips

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Yea you gotta be able to do bodyweight exercises

Yea the vast majority of people can't do ther body weight on most exercises

Brehs that want to start being able to do body pull ups and dips that can't should start doing machine pull downs, bend over rows to build those lats and upper back muscles for pull ups and flat / decline bench with barbell and Dumbbells to build those Chest and tris.

Work Accessory muscles like biceps and triceps to help build yourself up as well.
 
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Yea the vast majority of people can't do ther body weight on most exercises

Brehs that want to start being able to do body pull ups and dips that can't should start doing machine pull downs, bend over rows to build those lats and upper back muscles for pull ups and flat / decline bench with barbell and Dumbbells to build those Chest and tris.

Work Accessory muscles like biceps and triceps to help build yourself up as well.

Great advice
 

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I might throw pullups back into the rotation because lats are one of my weak points.

Do dips and pullups add mass or just make you look more cut/defined?
 

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And that's a damn shame,see guys in there benching 315,but can do 2 pullups:francis::mjlol:
shyt still impressive than most gym goers no need to discredit them cats for not being able to do more. Its something you have to work on and if you don't well that's how you get what you see mentioned.
 
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shyt still impressive than most gym goers no need to discredit them cats for not being able to do more. Its something you have to work on and if you don't well that's how you get what you see mentioned.

Im not discrediting it at all,but why would you want a strong bench and not strong body weight lifts? Bench is very overrated and really correlates to very little if anything outside of the gym:yeshrug:
 

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Im not discrediting it at all,but why would you want a strong bench and not strong body weight lifts? Bench is very overrated and really correlates to very little if anything outside of the gym:yeshrug:
The obvious reason unless you one of these YouTube barbell crews who the fukk (as in most regular people) cares about body weight lifts. When you see the nfl combine isn't a pull up test its a benching test. People maybe because of lack pull ups strength more than dips ask whats your bench not how many pull-ups you can do. That's why that's its the more popular thing.
 
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