I was talking to a guy at the gym today, and we were talking about chin-ups..

I mentioned how I could do 10, but then my next ones were 5, then 3, basically doing it to exhaustion on each set (sometimes I feel like I could do 11 on my first one, but then my successive ones suffer).

I do this every workout where I'm doing chin-ups (other days I'll do barbell rows), same number of reps every time..

He was saying how it might be better to do more sets of lower reps, like 5 sets of 5, as that way I'm doing 50 instead of just 18..

He mentioned that it's recommended in Ahnuld's ABC's of Bodybuilding..

I'm plateauing on push-ups as well.. I'll do 26, then 10, then 8..

Thoughts?