How many pull-ups can you do?

True that patient keeper doesn't know his audience and in sports arena there's a higher chance of people doing them right, but your average joe on the street does only do 1/4 or 1/2 reps.
 
Patient Keeper said:
Most of you arent doing proper pull ups, the average man would be lucky to do 5 full pull ups.
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This is in sports arena though, so it will gain responses from people who have an interest in it mostly. I expect that most the public can't do many or any properly, but I believe what has been posted in this thread.

Some impressive feats here, particularly those like FF who are comparatively heavy. I haven't done an unweighted set to failure in quite a while, may try it later, my 16 I posted earlier was from the last time I did it.
 
Dr.EM said:
This is in sports arena though, so it will gain responses from people who have an interest in it mostly. I expect that most the public can't do many or any properly, but I believe what has been posted in this thread.

Some impressive feats here, particularly those like FF who are comparatively heavy. I haven't done an unweighted set to failure in quite a while, may try it later, my 16 I posted earlier was from the last time I did it.
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But surely its all relative i mean when i started out at the gym i could do 8 at a push (cant remember if they were fully extended) where as now with an extra 10kg of bodyweight i can push out like i said 15.

and before you say i work all muscle groups
 
Well, yes that's true. I'm probably about the lightest here at about 65kg, but am confident that in order to do more (or more to the point, heavier weighted and eventually one armed) I would need to weigh more, to simply carry enough muscle mass on my frame to achieve it. I would also expect a point of diminishing and perhaps negative return to occur where your bodyweight is too high to move itself effectively in this type of excersise, but of course that may not be strictly true and the fact of the matter is perhaps more that those who do weight a 'lot' generally carry a lot of fat. This won't be the case for FF etc.
 
That's a very high number regardless.


I went for a 'new record' and I did 18. Strangely disappointing, it's higher than my 16 but I wanted to break 20! I guess training with added weight doesn't necessarily increase your max reps that much.
 
ok guys whats the diff
pull up

chin

now i take it the chins are to get your chin above the bar duh

but pull up is that not the same or is it fully down and chin above the bar sort off
 
Out of interest, do most of you do pull ups as part of a weights routine or do you do them seperately on a regular basis?

I was thinking about doing some daily sets of things like press ups/pull ups along with my normal split routine but not sure whether it would be of much benefit?
 
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