Chin ups and dips

If you have had previous shoulder injuries I would be really careful with dips. I would go so far as to say dont do them at all. Chins and pullups should be a staple in my opinion.

In this same theme, be careful doing overhead pressing with quarterbacks and anybody who has had shoulder problems. I knew this instinctively for years, but the recent work of Coach X and 62 has solidified my thoughts on this.

those are good as are external rotations for high reps and thinks like chain pushups. But you have to be careful. I know this from experience.

I agree with comment about bringing up one's GPP, but I personally like to mix it up a little. I like the bodyweight GPP exercises, like the one's John Davies gives examples of. I also like to bring up GPP during the pre-work out and also during extra workouts. Louie Simmons gives several examples of extra workouts on his website.

If im doing it during a preworkout or extra workout, I might superset lat pulldowns, rows or some type of upper back or shoulder work, some ab work and some hamstring work, going at a light (50-60%) intensity, with very little or no breaks. I will do this anywhere from 15-25 minutes. Same thing with bodyweight exercises...little to no breaks going for about 15-30 mins.

I try to do a different extra or pre workout every session and I always include resisted torso work of some kind.

I THINK it was Dave Tate that said, "don't lift weights to get in shape, get in shape to lift weights." To put it in a nutshell, as gettin_stronger said, bringing up your GPP will make your workouts much more efficient.

We do alot of dips, chins, and pushups to supplement our strength training program. There are days where for auxilliary lifts we do a circuit of chins, dips, push-ups and body wt squats. Each station is 30 seconds in length. They compete for max reps. Sometimes we have them compete and add up the total number of reps they do between the 4 exercises and get a Gatorade for the top 2 etc. Not all the time but every once in a while. It is a nice =izer for the kdis b/c usually the big guys are stronger but those little wrestler types can do a boat load of dips and chin-ups.