Originally Posted by
burritos
Band exercises were just eccentric internal and external rotation. Not much adding of weight. The multiple sets is something that was unchanged before and after the spike in biking.
But you have kept up with the multiple daily sets of pull-ups, even with adding bicycling. That specific strength training what is giving you improvement in that specific strength. The general fitness might have a little impact, but hardly meaningful compared to your diligent specific strength training.
If you'd seen weight loss fun bicycling, that would definitely have an impact on pull-ups. But you haven't seen that- probably me likely stable weight with some replacement of body fat for lower buddy muscle (maybe some core), but that can't really be recruited for pull-ups.