The Recon Ron Pullup Program - GUARANTEED to have you doing 20 pullups
The Armstrong Pullup Program is definitely more popular than the Recon Ron Pullup Program, however I have experienced VERY significant and very dramatic gains and improvements on the Recon Ron program, more than I ever did when I was doing the Armstrong pullup program.
I know it's been posted in the past, but the information is scattered about, so I thought I would make this thread. If you follow the Recon Ron program exactly, it doesn't matter if you're a fat body, you will be at 20 pullups within 5 months if you follow the program.
Here is a website with the chart you need to follow, print this out and stick it on your wall: http://webpages.charter.net/bert/reconron.html
The website doesn't list the directions or specifically what you need to do however. At the top you'll notice it says WEEK 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. During each week you will perform 5 sets of the number of reps listed in the column, for example in week 1 you will do 6 reps on the first set, 5 on the second set, etc. You do this Monday through Saturday and on Sunday you take the day off and do nothing to allow yourself to recover from the previous week. Then you'll move on to week 2, however in MY personal experience I found that it moved a little too quickly, so I spent 2 weeks on week 1 before moving to week 2 where I spent another 2 weeks before moving on to week 3. If you're stuck on a certain week and you've been stuck there for more than 2 weeks without being able to improve to what's required on the next step, then take 5 days off and don't do a single pullup.
I hope everything above made sense. As a prerequisite to the program you must be able to do at least 6 pullups, but if you can't it should be fairly easy to get to that point on your own. I'm currently at 11 pullups right now and I don't think there is any way I would be at that point had it not been for the Recon Ron program.
If you have at least 5 months remaining in DEP, there is no excuse for not shipping to boot camp being able to do 20 pullups if you follow this program, and if you're already able to do more than what's required in the early weeks of the Recon Ron program you're already ahead of the game.