Why I Stopped Doing Chin Ups This Week

Yesterday, I had my pull day workout which usually consists of weighted chin ups, barbell rows, barbell curls, and hammer curls…

But by the time I was done…

I only did barbell rows and hammer curls.

Here’s what happened:

Last week, I started doing morning workouts instead of training at night, and quickly realized I’m not able to go straight into my exercises quite the same way.

I need more warm up time to train at 5:15am…

Which makes sense considering my previous night time sessions would be after working, moving around, walking, and generally being awake all day.

But the unfortunate way I found out was during last week’s pull day…

During my second set of weighted chin ups, I started feeling a weird pain in my left elbow.

And even though it faded across the week…

It’s still not gone.

So instead of pushing through and injuring myself further, I decided to skip out because even bodyweight chin ups weren’t agreeing with me.

And knowing that barbell curls use the elbow in a similar way to chin ups, I skipped out on those too.