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#8001142 - 12/10/14 12:54 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: johnso2.6]
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 Originally Posted By: Johnso26
 Originally Posted By: Arma
Shoulder width is the basic pull up that most people can do unless you are severely out of shape.


And here we go again.

Most humans likely can't even do one pullup. Bank it.


Wishful thinking on my part I guess...
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#8001143 - 12/10/14 12:54 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: HX_Guy]
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any of you guys ever try hanging rings at a gymnastics place? impossibru. for me lol
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#8001147 - 12/10/14 12:55 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: johnso2.6]
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 Originally Posted By: Johnso26
I've gone wide of late. It is harder than shoulder width-ish.


wide makes my marginal left rotator cuff pissed. I go about six inches overall wider than my shoulders.
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#8001150 - 12/10/14 12:57 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: ErikB]
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Time for Iron Cross brags.

No TBE, not that kind.
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#8001151 - 12/10/14 12:58 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: Sir Ironpool]
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 Originally Posted By: Mrs. Ironmom
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 Originally Posted By: Mrs. Ironmom
Wait, a pull-up has to have your hands a certain distance apart?


Shoulder width is the basic pull up that most people can do unless you are severely out of shape. The wider your grip the harder the pull up.


So how are people over-estimating based on that. OP didn't ask how many wide arm pullups we could do. Ask a million people to do a pull-up and 99% of them are going to go with whatever feels natural, which Id imagine is somewhere around shoulder width.


The photo OP posted is bit more than shoulder width. I am willing to bet that 80% of the people here will not be able to do a single pull up at that grip. Then again this is clubsi and everyone has wings like Arnold.
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#8001155 - 12/10/14 01:00 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: norcal skim]
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 Originally Posted By: norcal skim #tbt
Time for Iron Cross brags.

No TBE, not that kind.


Another skill I could never get. Starting at the top position I could lower myself about 3/4 of the way down and then just lose it. Look at the backs and shoulders of male gymnasts. Do yours look like that? No? Mine neither.



edit: at this being moved to the fitness forum. Got to make room on the first page for posts that haven't been updated for over an hour.

Edited by lunchbox (12/10/14 01:03 PM)
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#8001192 - 12/10/14 01:28 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: lunchbox]
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Some illegal mod who can't do pullups hid this thread over here. It certainly has nothing to do with fitness!
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#8001225 - 12/10/14 01:50 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: norcal skim]
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I go super wide, all the way down and all the way up and keep the legs straight and I can do about 15 on the first set.

There's no way some of the people in this thread get anywhere close to what they are claiming if they follow proper form.

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#8001248 - 12/10/14 01:57 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: Arma]
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 Originally Posted By: Arma
 Originally Posted By: Mrs. Ironmom
 Originally Posted By: Arma
 Originally Posted By: Mrs. Ironmom
Wait, a pull-up has to have your hands a certain distance apart?


Shoulder width is the basic pull up that most people can do unless you are severely out of shape. The wider your grip the harder the pull up.


So how are people over-estimating based on that. OP didn't ask how many wide arm pullups we could do. Ask a million people to do a pull-up and 99% of them are going to go with whatever feels natural, which Id imagine is somewhere around shoulder width.


The photo OP posted is bit more than shoulder width. I am willing to bet that 80% of the people here will not be able to do a single pull up at that grip. Then again this is clubsi and everyone has wings like Arnold.

I don't think anybody was suggesting that picture represented anything other than a generic pullup.
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#8001290 - 12/10/14 02:09 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: Lewis]
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 Originally Posted By: Lewis
I go super wide, all the way down and all the way up and keep the legs straight and I can do about 15 on the first set.

There's no way some of the people in this thread get anywhere close to what they are claiming if they follow proper form.



50 bro or UB*.




*until boredom.
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#8001303 - 12/10/14 02:11 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: johnso2.6]
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Lol.
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#8001313 - 12/10/14 02:15 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: johnso2.6]
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 Originally Posted By: Johnso26
 Originally Posted By: Lewis
I go super wide, all the way down and all the way up and keep the legs straight and I can do about 15 on the first set.

There's no way some of the people in this thread get anywhere close to what they are claiming if they follow proper form.



50 bro or UB*.




*until boredom.

That's why I strap a smaller bro to my back while I rep out... don't want to be there all day brochato.
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#8001387 - 12/10/14 02:43 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: Lewis]
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I can do 20, just actually had a comp at my gym, dead hang each time.

I'm also a midget, 5'6 145 so I know they're not as hard for me as bigger guys.
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#8001394 - 12/10/14 02:46 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: ItsTheAussie]
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I have no idea. If I had a guess, I'd say 15 chins.....?
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#8001397 - 12/10/14 02:48 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: ItsTheAussie]
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Exactly 20! Not 19? 21?

Everyone's round numbers are intrdasting.
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#8001403 - 12/10/14 02:51 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: johnso2.6]
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I did 20, it was quite difficult. I tried for 21 and couldn't do it, sorry for disappointing you johnso, you're the reason I do pull ups
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#8001429 - 12/10/14 03:07 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: ItsTheAussie]
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It must have been crazy existing in a world of round numbers like that.
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#8001430 - 12/10/14 03:07 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: johnso2.6]
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We've had a 50.

And a 30 I think.

Crazy I tell you.
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#8001433 - 12/10/14 03:09 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: johnso2.6]
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 Originally Posted By: Johnso26
 Originally Posted By: Lewis
I go super wide, all the way down and all the way up and keep the legs straight and I can do about 15 on the first set.

There's no way some of the people in this thread get anywhere close to what they are claiming if they follow proper form.



50 bro or UB*.




*until boredom.



I assume only a few people in here actually have a clue what they're talking about.


Here's 50...and hes doing them wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QXqWWWwVPE

78 and still not right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7L7XcDArs

Not that they aren't strong or jacked.




Bottom line...I SERIOUSLY question anyone saying 50.
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#8001452 - 12/10/14 03:18 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: johnso2.6]
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 Originally Posted By: Johnso26
Exactly 20! Not 19? 21?

Everyone's round numbers are intrdasting.


at the crossfit games 2011 i went to, the marines had a booth where you could walk up and do pullups. if you got 30 you got some decent prize, if you got 20 you got a pen. i got the pen. i'm not sure anyone that day got 30
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#8001454 - 12/10/14 03:20 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: ]
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The black guy isn't that bad....at first.


About a year ago I tried "hollow" pullups.
http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/better-pullups

They are a bitch, but awesome.


I fucked up years ago. I would do pullups with straps. That was a mistake. My grip is still weak, but improving.
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#8001455 - 12/10/14 03:21 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: 98V-TeC]
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i forgot about L pullups, those are great
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#8001817 - 12/10/14 07:42 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: ElementBabe]
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Lolz at this thread.

Anyone claiming 15+ pull-ups needs to come with undeniable proof @ 1012.org
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#8001850 - 12/10/14 08:09 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: The Mighty BellRacer]
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for one set i could probably squeeze out 12-13, but my ass is weighing 237 now... lol

and that's more of a neutral grip... with my shoulder injury, wide grip pulls ain't happening...
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#8001972 - 12/10/14 10:22 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: DieZel]
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I can do 20, but only with a neutral grip.

With a wide grip, I can only get 12-15. I don't do wide grip anymore, though... hurts the fuck out of my elbows.
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#8002000 - 12/10/14 10:56 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: Silock]
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73 shoulder width
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#8002054 - 12/11/14 12:35 AM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: It's Art]
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Good, this thread made its way out of OT so now I can add my input.

21 wide-grip pull-ups is my best at 5'8" 165lbs. Just did this yesterday actually.

Under-grip and shoulder width I can pop off 25-ish? I haven't done them in months though.
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#8002061 - 12/11/14 12:44 AM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: Moof]
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#8002114 - 12/11/14 04:20 AM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: johnso2.6]
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 Originally Posted By: Johnso26
 Originally Posted By: HX_Guy
 Originally Posted By: I am Legend
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 Originally Posted By: Mrs. Ironmom
I call BS.


On what?


On 15 chins.


ALL THE WAY DOWN AND BACK ABOVE THE BAR.


I'll give it a shot on Friday at the gym. \:\)

That's what I think I can do, so we'll see. I have still been lifting all year, since January, 4x per week. I think I've missed maybe 6 workouts all year?


That's super. Have you actually been doing pullups?

If no, you will be sub-10. Bank it.


just did a max set, palms away grip, got 10x. rested for about a second at the bottom of each hang, feet off ground. ive done pullups probably 4 or 5 times in the past 2 years. gonna hurt tomorrow..
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#8002178 - 12/11/14 07:00 AM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: ElementBabe]
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Wait, your feet can't be on the ground?!
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#8002243 - 12/11/14 08:22 AM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: johnso2.6]
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gotta make sure all the facts are known
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#8002863 - 12/11/14 02:24 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: It's Art]
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 Originally Posted By: Art Show
73 shoulder width


11 sets of 6, and 1 set of 7...
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#8004123 - 12/12/14 11:20 AM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: DieZel]
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So I was wrong...I did 10 chin-ups this morning.

Used to be easier when I weighed like 165lbs...not I'm 193.
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#8004846 - 12/12/14 09:30 PM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: HX_Guy]
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I can do at least... 4.
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#8006701 - 12/15/14 09:34 AM Re: How many pull-ups and/or chin-ups can you do? [Re: HX_Guy]
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 Originally Posted By: HX_Guy
So I was wrong...I did 10 chin-ups this morning.

Used to be easier when I weighed like 165lbs...not I'm 193.
I still wonder if you're doing proper chins.

Not hating too much here, but you've never seemed very strong. More skinny fat and weak. Unless something has changed.
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