How many pull-ups can you do?

MoNkeE · 22 Mar 2011 at 15:07

5 or 6 at bodyweight, not tried chins but I'm guessing a few more judging by other peoples responses!

Sutters · 22 Mar 2011 at 19:22

I started at 8 some months ago but can now do 15 off the back of a wooden staircase, just using the fingers, kinda painful. I'm 85kg. Thinking about attaching some weight now perhaps after reading the thread. How much harder are muscle ups & one-arms?

atpbx · 22 Mar 2011 at 19:33

I can only do the ones where you hang by one hand, wrap your other hand around the hanging hands wrist and do it that way.

I can do about ten of those.

I can only do a couple any other way.

dannycivic02 · 22 Mar 2011 at 19:45

About 10s my limit requires too much energy.

regulus · 22 Mar 2011 at 20:19

Done 12 earlier tonight. My best would be around the 20 mark but I haven't seen the inside of a gym for a good while. Currently weigh a solid 107kg and want to drop down to 104kg. Should be able to squeeze out 15+ then.

smyth · 22 Mar 2011 at 21:02

Sutters said:
I started at 8 some months ago but can now do 15 off the back of a wooden staircase, just using the fingers, kinda painful. I'm 85kg. Thinking about attaching some weight now perhaps after reading the thread. How much harder are muscle ups & one-arms?

I have problem with muscle up, seems like a tendon in my elbow clicks when I go I try to do a very low dip, gets really sore after one or 2 low dips

One arm chin/pull ups are very hard! You'd think they'd only be twice as hard as 2 arms but it's a crazy step up!

Gamefreak501 · 22 Mar 2011 at 21:03

Well I did my 10 today, those were narrow. As soon as I went wide, I managed a mere 4!

Skillmister · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:12

Sutters said:
How much harder are muscle ups & one-arms?

I imagine very. If push ups are anything to go by i can do 30 normal ones and no 1 arm ones

Djdom56 · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:58

You are correct sir

, muscle ups are incredibly hard. I can do a lot of pullups but muscle ups require a great deal of explosive power and strength. They have defeated me

fire_munki · 22 Mar 2011 at 23:13

I'm trying one arm ones, did 3 three finger pull ups on a finger board at the local wall. Fingers go in about to the middle knuckle.

Freefaller · 24 Mar 2011 at 12:02

I've done muscle ups not for specific training, but for climbing up and over things - it's about momentum really more than anything else. When doing pull ups it's easy to get the chest to bar level, if you explode on the way up you can translate that into a muscle up.

T1Cybernetic · 24 Mar 2011 at 12:07

Currently can't do muscle ups because my bar is in a doorway

but as soon as I find a place then I'll give them a blast.
Only recently been able to do pull and chin ups again

but I'm getting back on track with 4-5 pull and 10 chins (Previous Post)

Green ARMY!!!

burtie · 24 Mar 2011 at 12:29

I managed 6 chin ups on monday, why I put them in my HST routine I'll never know, as there is no way I can do 15.