How many pull-ups can you do?

SpeedFreak · 26 Nov 2010 at 21:03

Mini revival here. I purchased a bar just under two months ago in an attempt to improve my strength while bouldering. I'm up to 20 chins (palms facing me), 23 pistol grip pulls, 14 pull ups (palms facing away) and 9 wide grip pulls. These are all dead hangs and it's actually incredible the level of improvement I've seen in this time. It's also helped my climbing a lot. Is anyone else making progress?

e36Adz · 26 Nov 2010 at 23:58

I can do about 25-30 press-ups, about 10 dips, about 8 pull-ups but ZERO wide arm pull ups. I joined a gym about a month ago and from all the 'natural' exercises (using your own body weight) I find wide arm pull-ups by far the most difficult. What do I need to work on to improve them, is it shoulders?

My aim is to be able to do 1 arm pull-ups and 1 arm press-ups, hell of a long way to go...

Infact, I'd be happy if I could do some of this:

G-MAN2004 · 27 Nov 2010 at 12:18

Ah yeah, I remember that. Crazy. :cool:

Apok · 27 Nov 2010 at 13:30

hope thats a pistol in his pocket otherwise he certainly seems to be happy being filmed.

Begbie · 27 Nov 2010 at 15:08

About 4 wide arms and not sure how many pull ups.

Normally do 3-4 sets every time I go to the gym.

psd99 · 27 Nov 2010 at 18:27

Freefaller said:
Target is to get to 10 with 50kg around my waist.... one day!

woah!

96kg body weight + 50kg = 146kg

You'd be lifting 0.5 more of yourself against mavity! Good target.

psd99 · 27 Nov 2010 at 18:28

I can do around 8 pull ups myself

then I seem to get tired and just can't get squeeze any more out!

thedude23 · 27 Nov 2010 at 21:43

I can barely do one

skippy2421 · 27 Nov 2010 at 21:48

With full ROM, nice and slow etc. probably looking at about 15-20 pull ups, I'll have a try tomorrow. Don't really do chins often as the only place I can do them in my gym is on the power cage and that's always busy.

coltpython3 · 27 Nov 2010 at 21:51

only 7

Zip · 28 Nov 2010 at 10:34

Zip · 28 Nov 2010 at 10:40

Russinating said:
I don't think doing one then hanging there for a minute in between is really a fair representation of your ability .

You try hang for a minute then go back up. Its 10 times harder

platypus · 28 Nov 2010 at 10:44

Not nearly enough. Just about scrape 8 out.

shifty_uk · 28 Nov 2010 at 11:17

10-15. I'm only 11.5st, though.

Freefaller · 28 Nov 2010 at 17:36

psd99 said:
woah!

96kg body weight + 50kg = 146kg

You'd be lifting 0.5 more of yourself against mavity! Good target.

I can do a good 6 with 40kg at the moment - so I'm getting there! I'm closer to 100kg at the moment.

psd99 · 28 Nov 2010 at 18:40

Freefaller said:
I can do a good 6 with 40kg at the moment - so I'm getting there! I'm closer to 100kg at the moment.

you're a BEASTTTTTTTTT

chips n gravy beast?

Freefaller · 28 Nov 2010 at 19:02

haha - not a huge fan of gravy

Robert1986 · 28 Nov 2010 at 20:43

16 chin ups.
10 wide grip pull ups.

I've never really cared how many I can do. Slow focused reps is what you should be going for.

psd99 · 29 Nov 2010 at 08:18

Freefaller said:
haha - not a huge fan of gravy

so you're a southerner lol

sort me out with your full body routine plz

The IPB · 29 Nov 2010 at 10:16

I'm currently working towards doing a one arm chin up, is going to take me a long time to reach the target though!

Can do 25 pullups currently.