Kipping on chinups#506

Is it fine to do this at the end of the set when i cant do any more proper chinups and is there any benefit to this and do you recommend adding a dropset to chinups as well

It’s unlikely to cause you any troubles but I wouldn’t really advise you to, for a couple of reasons:

1) By kipping/swinging you’re not really putting more stress on the muscles you wanna target anyway since you’re just helping yourself out with momentum - so it’s not all too productive (You could force a few more eccentrics this way - but I’ll get to why we don’t need that)

2) You can set all the necessary stimulus you need without losing proper form and without dropsetting really, you just gotta push yourself within your set

3) Keeping proper form all throughout also makes your training very consistent and comparable, with kipping you’d have variance in how much you’re assisting yourself and you also just cause yourself to get more fatigued (also because you’re probably gonna be yanking on your joints more than you otherwise would if you’re kipping)

So TLDR:
Just keep good form and train with intensity - you shouldn’t need to dropset or kip to feel you’ve pushed yourself enough, at least not for the majority of your training sessions

I personally do not recommend kipping or drop sets for chin-ups. Progressive overload will build over time as you keep practising your chin-ups/pull-ups. Once you feel that you have reached failure with reps, a resistance band can be a better option to do more work rather than kipping.

As Lars as signed off, keep good form and train with intensity.