Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post

One (of the many!) frustrating things I find about chin-ups, is that unlike press-ups, where you can momentarily 'hover', when nearing failure, before that extra effort to complete the rep, with chin-ups I have to put my feet on the ground as locking my arms at the bottom, is too strength sapping. Once my feet hit the ground I feel it nullifies (cheats) the attempt on the next rep, as it makes it relatively too easy.
So if you are doing 2 chin-ups, do you rest your feet on the ground in-between them? Or do you only do this towards failure, so a brief rest but within the allowed time?

When doing press-ups I do rest with my chest on the floor, and those rests get longer and longer as time passes. Chin-ups - I do not put my feet down until I have done all that I am going to do in that set.