How many bodyweight pull ups can you do?
What's your one rep max?
If you're not regularly training the king of upper body exercises, what's your excuse?
Pull ups
How many bodyweight pull ups can you do?
What's your one rep max?
If you're not regularly training the king of upper body exercises, what's your excuse?
3 pullups or 4 chinups
Chinups are the superior exercise btw
>Chinups are the superior exercise btw
I find them incredibly uncomfortable on a straight bar so I don't bother
>3 pullups or 4 chinups
Why should anyone take the word of a literal DYEL
That's more than the worlds strongest man m8
They literally work different groups. Chin ups are more bicep focused, pull ups are more back focused. But pull ups are by far superior and your opinion is wrong.
If chinups are more bicep focused and pullups are more lat focused why does literally everyone find chinups easier? Lats are bigger than biceps, why would activating the smaller muscle rather than the bigger one make it easier? Mull it over and get back to me. Looking forward to your response.
they find chin-ups easier because they cope and think chin-ups count as a pull up
>t.
>t. fat latlet
post back
post braincase measurements
>no argument
They are the same exercise except chins incorporate the biceps. Which is why you can do more. They use more total muscle mass.
>If chinups are more bicep focused and pullups are more lat focused
It is literally impossible to be this fricking stupid and obnoxious. You are literally the fricking epitome of dunning kruger effect. You are wrong and it's not up for a debate. Literally every single fact is against you.
Why is "dead hang" desirable
You don't pause at the bottom of squats. Making things harder for no reason isn't useful.
because most only manage pathetic amount of pullups so they circlejerk about form to make it sound more impressive
It's desirable to accurately measure progressive overload. Sure if you are not lying to yourself then you don' HAVE TO deadhang but it is clear cut measurement for when one rep is performed. Like I said, a lot of people think that they progressive overloaded when they did 1 more rep than last week but in reality they just did shorter ROM. If your ROM stays the same whether it's short or long then i dont care as long as you dont lie to yourself.
>Chin ups are more bicep focused, pull ups are more back focused
Chin ups indeed use biceps as a dynamic stabilizer as opposed to Pull ups who use it as a synergist, but they are both still a mainly back(lats) focused exercise you absolute moron
I started doing them a couple of months ago, finding it very hard to progress.
>How many bodyweight pull ups can you do?
On a good day around 12 if I'm starting fresh.
>What's your one rep max?
No idea, but I try to do neutral grip weighted ones (+10kg) at least once a week, can manage about 6~8 of those. My gym doesn't have a dip belt though, so I end up having to use ankle weights instead.
I can do 10 wide grip pull ups (got a pull up + dip station in my garden), controlled, none of that flailing up and down, swinging monkey shit
25 wide grip in one sitting but I weigh 135 lbs so it’s not that great
How can I increase reps in my 3/week workouts? I can't grease the groove bc nowhere in my apartment can support a pullup bar.
Train them like any other lift and do 3*5 twice a week (or whatever your max is). That is what I do and went from 1 to 7 in a month
It used to be 15 chin-ups but then I got super depressed and stopped lifting for two years and gained like 20 pounds and now I can only do 2. Gonna get back to 15 if it kills me.
Most I did was 16 reps with BW I think, at 180lbs.
My 1RM weighted is +90lbs, at a BW of around 185lbs at the time.
Getting into weighted with low reps gave me brachialis tendonitis, so nowadays I just do BW pullups or chins for high reps milking the eccentrics twice a week, antagonistically superset with dips, OHP or front raises. More focused on horizontal pulling at the moment because I've neglected it.
i like em. only stuck at around 8 of each.
anyway
how the frick do you prevent your legs from swinging away with every rep.
>how the frick do you prevent your legs from swinging away with every rep
stop being a core-let
your legs should be straight, slightly in front of you
your core is weak, do l sit pullups, try to keep your legs straight and in front of your body at least
slow down. i had the same problem. make sure youre using your lats.
what made them click for me was realizing youre not necessarily trying to pull your chin over the bar, but your trying to pull your chest to almost touch the bar. if youre doing that youll naturally get your chin past the bar.
also your body wont be perfectly perpendicular to the ground, you will be slightly "leaning back" most of the time other than during dead hang
My best set was 15 strict pullups but now I could probably do more, I've just been doing harder variations since then.
As for weighted, I did 6 reps with 30kg added
6'2 90kg
same exact numbers and height/weight as me. nice work pullbro
I can't even do one yet
how many assisted ones and how much assistance do you need?
Do inverted rows for a while to build up to a pull up.
You guys use talc or something to fix your grip on the bar? The b***h is slippery. Or is it just that I'm not strong enough yet
chalk + overgrip (hands are more parallel with floor)
this also promotes pulling in a curve to your chest/clavicles rather than trying to pull yourself up in a straight line
overgrip? Wtf you mean more parallel to the floor
I was able to do 5 chin ups with a 25kg plate. probably only 2 reps with pull ups on a 25kg plate but haven't tested it. I could do up to 12 pull-ups in a row BW.
Pull ups and all its variations are the best for back.
I've gotten thickness and width gains from just pull ups, are rows a meme?
I still do rows at least twice a week. One arm bent over rows and incline rows. Not sure if they're a meme but figured it wouldn't hurt to still keep a row or two in your program.
The most I can do is 70.
My first set is 9 pullups and 12 chinups with no weight. The other sets I can only do 7 pullups and 8 chinups. Can I add weight or is it still too early?
if your form is really strict and you aren't kipping or anything, then you can start adding weight
maybe see if you can do three or four sets of five with a 25 pound plate, and go from there
Back pull ups, I imagine I can get 8
Weighted, I can do 20kg on neutral grip without an arch
8 pull ups, goal is 12 by december so I can start working on getting that muscle up
>muscle up
Don't bother with it. It's a meme exercise which will frick up your shoulder joints long term.
>don't do risky thing that thousands of people have harmlessly done before!
thanks mom
Stop being fat and weak. Do you also tell people not to squat and deadlift so they wont frick up their knees and back?
16 strict from a dead hang, but I only weight 170.
I can do +-18 depending on how strict the form is. but they fricked up my elbow I now have pain every time I fully extend my arm and try to pull something
9 or 10 on a good day is my max, and it's pretty much only because I've cut down.
20, I'm 190lbs
Depends heavily on how I'm feeling. 16 is my best at 178 lbs 6'0. But some days I can only do 10.
So far 15 is my omr. On most days I am aiming for 4x10-12 depending on grip. Yesterday did 4x6 with plus 10kg, but it's just shoving weigh in a back pack so not sure if I would be better or worse with it off a belt. Currently 185lbs, higher BF than I would like.
Really slacking last couple of weeks with travel and life shit. Going to hit it hard now.
i weigh roughly 225 lbs and a jacked. but I've hit my plateau of 4-5 body weight pull-ups for a year now (i usually do pull-ups 1s or twice a week). Can any ISTbro hit me with a plan to increase my count.
Just do them all the time and to failure, back off if you start to feel sore or any unusual pain. I'd have a goal in mind, say 30 or 40 reps, and take as many sets as necessary to get there but putting in max effort each time.
Do pullups every other day. It takes time to increase pullup counts. Pullups are like the one exercise that you can't cheese.
8 fresh and that’s to failure. I'm 206 so i think ill start adding weight when i reach 12.
Chinups & Pullups
Not sure about everyones opions but i feel like I get a better back workout with pullups because i can do everyone to the chest versus doing chinups.
I can do 8 perfect form pull ups. Not bad after getting my tfcc and broken scaphoid fixed in my hand. It is still really painful though. My goal is to get to 15 body weight pull ups. Before injury I could do 20+ easy with weight added so I’m so far behind now
Is neutral grip easier or is it equivalent? It feels easier.
it's easier, but usually also the variant that is least aggrieving for joins
do whatever version you enjoy
I'll give it a shot
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I'll give it a shot
>How many bodyweight pull ups can you do?
12/13
>What's your one rep max?
Dunno, but I should try at least once. Some months ago, before summer, I made some weighted pull ups, +7 kg, and I did around 4, can't remember, but at that time I did 11 reps max with bodyweight.
>t. Dyel
4 sets of 5. Really slowly and going all the way up and down. Hands at shoulder width.
If just focusing on sheer numbers and not about proper form or motion? Two sets of 20 would be pretty doable.
I can do about 18 unweighted, but I am quite thin so idk if that makes it easier for me. Usually I do around 15kg weighted and I can do like 8-9 of that.
10-12 at 170lb bw
How do I engage my back with pull ups? I keep feeling it in my arms.
That probably just means you have relatively weak arms. You should't have to focus on engaging specific muscles in a compound lift, if you want more focus on those muscles do a different exercise.
like 5 from a dad hang, my upper is small and weak baka
20 wide grip pull-ups at 260lbs BW
28, shooting for 40.
t. 5'9" 145lbs
17 at 190lbs. Never do weighted ones.
>Plateud at 9/10 bodyweight pullups
>decide frick it i need to improve
>slap an 8kg dumbbell in between my feet because no weighted belt
>do the same amount of reps still
bros???
shitty endurance
yeah im the same as that anon i think i have shit endurance because im stuck on 8 pull ups for weeks and weeks but the number of reps dont go down every set
do your 8 pullups then do as many negatives as you can
most people who claim to do 10+ pull ups half rep.
its not a pull up if you dont dead hang at the bottom a solid second
This. I could do 25+ pull-ups and 6 reps +40kg weighted and then I watched NH's video of people's illusion of what progressive overload is and I did strict ones with dead hang at the bottom and I could only do 12. So more or less halved my reps.
Now, it's the only way to do them imo. Many think that they progressive overload but in reality they subconsiously just compromised their form/speed/whatever to get more reps.
Are you me? I was at 28 reps but didn't fully lock out at the bottom. Now back to deadhangs and I'm around 13-14 reps
>Cutting the range of motion makes lifts easier
woah
same. I deluded myself into believing I could do 18 reps. Once I started doing real dead hang paused rep pull ups I struggled doing 10.
But you can feel your lats much better this way.
>its not a pull up if you dont dead hang at the bottom a solid second
You need to complete the full range of motion yeah, but there's no rule that you have to hand there for a second or else it's not a proper rep. What sort of bullshit is that? Go all the way down, chin over the bar properly, don't use momentum or swing. That's it.
I'm stuck at 7 for like half a year now. I tried emom. I tried doing a few every time I pass by the pull up bar at home. Bands. But everything only works in the beginning, then I just hit this wall. I hate it and I hate myself for it. I'd be so happy with 12.
You probably need a more smarter and systematic approach, just like in any other lift, maybe periodize from assisted high rep stuff to heavy weighted triples to singles.
25 chin ups at my best (10 years ago)
170/70
>How many bodyweight pull ups can you do?
15-20 depending on the day
>What's your one rep max?
3pl8s
15 at 80kg(176lbs) bodyweight, I gas hard if i try for a second set, would probably only get 6 lol
>How many bodyweight pull ups can you do?
pr is 23
>What's your one rep max?
I only do orm on chinups, it's +155lbs
I don't train them regularly but last week I did 9 wide grip, and with as perfect and controlled form as a I could manage. I surprised myself with that because I'm 200 pounds
Are one armed pullups mainly about technique? I can do 14-15 clean, chest to bar pullups but I struggle to even one arm deadhang for more than a few seconds. I'm 88kg/194lbs, am I just too heavy?
>am I just too heavy?
no
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/VT7rMWBH2z4
If your goal is a one arm pullup, you need to be adding weight and working in lower rep ranges. There is technique to it, but you shouldn't worry about that until you can do a pullup with AT LEAST +65% bw
Thanks my man. At my bodyweight that's nearly 3pl8s, but I'll try. It's one of those feats I'd like to be able to do before I get too old.
It's amazing how out of shape weight lifters are. Lmao. All that mass and no core strength.
what the frick are you talking about idiot, weightlifting is all core strength. God damn dyel
>I'm soooo strong because I can do pullups, people who actually lift are weak
Get over this. I could do them when I was completely dyel. A 405 deadlift is harder and more useful than any amount of pullups
The heavier you are the harder it is to do pull ups as you have to build stronger muscles which takes longer to develop.
Best way to do more pulls is to train as a fatty and then cut.
Someone doing pullups for reps at 100kg is far more impressive than doing pullups for reps at 60kg.
60kg twinks, try adding 40kg to your pull up, and see how long it takes you to do 100kg (2 years at minimum).
I'm about 91kg and can do 17 standard bodyweight pull-ups with proper form. I usually just do sets of 10 or 12 though
Yeah that's pretty advanced
Know what your lat pull down is?
I honestly never use the lat pulldown machine. I can do 8-9 good reps of pull ups with 20kg attached, but I don't go kuch higher than that usually
Aren't lat pull downs completely redundant once you can do 5+ pullups? Like what are they doing that pullups aren't
Yes
But if he can pull 90kg he can probably lat pull down a whole stack of 100kg for reps
60kg twinks couldn't do this
>Aren't lat pull downs completely redundant
yes
>once you can do 5+ pullups
not really
there isnt a universal standard for this. I know ppl who can do 5 pull-ups but they do 40kg on the lat pulldown machine. So obviously lat pulldowns arent redundant for them yet. I personally switched from lat pulldown to exclusively pull-ups when I could do +20 pull-ups and I lat pulldowned 100-120kg. 100kg was already struggle but that was the breakpoint where at my bodyweight the lat pulldown machine just didn't give me the correct stimulus anymore. If I used lower weight, it was cardio for me and again at my bodyweight putting more weight than that became really awkward simply due to physics. So right now weighted pull-ups are the way to progress.
Pull-ups have this odd effect that some days I wake the frick up and can bang tens, and some days I struggle with 4-6
Sometimes they feel extremely difficult to the point where rep by rep, I feel like dying. Like I do 1 rep, then the next rep I can only barely pull it, then by the next rep I can't even hang in there or do a negative.
I did one with a 23kg ruck on the other day. Body weight(95kg) I can only do around 10 with no pause and 5 or so pausing 1sec top and bottom.
They are a meme. I train them maybe once a month and can do 5 with a 45 plate. They're overrated on here for some reason
>They're overrated on here for some reason
>hits almost entire upper body
>good for grip strength
>good for abs
>gives you aesthetic v taper
>can do them almost anywhere
moronic take
13, 14 on a good day. I weigh 186lbs. Can do about 2 reps with 45lb plate.
I can do 5-6 from deadhang position in a single go but my veins and shit feels tight af around pits and lower chest area so i don't do it for next 3-4 days.
This thread is fricking stupid without people posting their weight.
I can max 12 reps and I weigh around 203 lbs. Usually I aim for sets of 10 during my workouts. I'm a 36 year old natty amateur who has only been lifting for 4 months so stop wasting your time lifting if you can't do better than me.
i can do one with intense pain.
my max was 47kg tho
Starting my fitness journey: Should I do pushups to improve first? I can only do 1 pull up with body weight.
Just hit 5x10 full dead hang to sternum touch pullups at 89kg BW. I'm very proud of myself. Need to buy a weight belt now.
Max pullups 16
Max chinups 20
1RM pullup +33kg, 110kg total. Did it yesterday