Go to a playground, and you can do various style of pull-ups.

Hahaha, man you are SO right! I've gone out with friends and just hung at the playground smoking joints and swinging on the monkey bars. The next morning I felt like I had the hardest workout ever!


You guys have some pretty good advice here, it's always good to learn a little more about muscle training. On the whole reps vs. weight issue, I found the most success by utilizing both. Basically I'd start with some really heavy weights that make me push myself, and just do the little bit of reps that I can. Then as I get stronger I just stick to the weight and keep increasing the reps, till now where I'm at the point where I don't feel that original weight is really heavy, but I still push it as hard through reps.

The most important thing really is the "shock your body" theory, which I read on a fitness site. If you want to really increase your strength and stamina, you have to push it beyond your comfort zone, beyond your presuppositions of what you can do. This doesn't mean working out too often or pushing it too hard when you're sore as hell. It means pushing it about 20% beyond your percieved limits and dealing with those first few days of soreness, then letting your body adapt to the 120% effort till it becomes a 100% effort.


BTW, does anybody have some suggestions about getting stronger bicepts, ass, and legs? Those seem to be the 3 muscles I get the least success with, especially my bicepts. I currently just do arm curls for my bicepts (with mild-modest results), and I tried pullups for a while but found it was too hard on my upper-sides since I already work them hard with the pushups. Unfortunately I can't really go for runs since my back and neck are all messed up, it just results in raging sciatica and a really sore back. I'd also like to get more muscle on the insides of my legs to even things out.