Hi guys, I'm currently on level 4 and I I realised I've been doing the dips and pull ups wrongly. But for the leg exercises, I can do all. But only my arms are weaker than my legs. I can do pistol squats but I can't proceed to level 5 because my arms are so weak that I can't even handstand on the wall. (Most likely I'm just scared of falling down on my head) I've seen Chris tutorial video on pull ups in this website and the video says that when I pull myself up and go down, my elbows no need to be extended fully straight, just a bit bent and then pull myself up again. But I've seen other tutorials and I realised I should extend my elbows all the way and engage my shoulder blades. For the dips, I've been crossing my legs and I think that I'm doing it wrongly, I should have kept my legs straight and body tight. So guys, should I sub the squats to pistol squats and lower down the reps for dips and pull ups? I want to increase my reps for pull ups quickly to achieve muscle up and gain strength, should I do pull ups everyday?
1. Forget the level and use the exercises according to your ability
2. You can keep your arms bent on pull-ups to create an occlusion effect and increase the pump but you should also get a muscle fully contracted and fully stretch so find a balance between those 2
3. Keeping your legs straight up and down with knees together will engage your core but some people have to build up to that, bend your legs if you have to
4. Don't do pull-ups everyday, looks like Chris's program has you workout every other day so you could max out on pull-ups every other day (3-4 days per week) but I hit each muscle group twice a week, if you're trying to learn a muscle up work on push movements (dips in particular) just as much, I'd also recommend working on your wrist flexibility and high pull-ups, don't attempt the muscle up if you have bad shoulders