grubinski

My lifetime PR is 31 good dead hang pullups. At the time, I was 5'11", 154#. Lighter body weight is definitely a huge advantage.

sillyboybmxer

75 PUSH UPS strong after a retest, havent touched the pull up bar, been too cold

s2000Junky

75 in one shot?

Wow didn’t think that was possible. Eventually elastic acid just beats you, even if your strong enough. How much do you weigh out of curiosity?

sillyboybmxer

Im 5"10 155-160lbs

I messed up my last post,....75 PUSH UPS, not pull ups.

s2000Junky

Ahh ok, that makes more sense

Still, 75 push ups!

EricJT7

Dang, I'm only 170-175 and can do around 15 good pullups when fresh. 20-25 at 190+ is really good. But can you do any one armed pull ups, I've seen guys at the gym doing that before I think..pretty sure I can't.

s2000Junky

yeah... don't thin so on the one arm pull up lol I haven't tried in recent memory, but id be surprised if i could manage a solid one. I think you got to be one strong lanky mofo to pull that off. I don't think your going to see any 200lb dudes doing those, just to put it that way.

vader1

I did P90x for my 40th birthday and that is a pullup heavy workout program. You do pullups a couple times a week in two different workouts and you have to do many sets of different types of grip. I had been doing lat pulldowns for a while so I could do sets of 10 right off the bat and you'd have to do eight sets in the most pullup intensive workout. By the end of the 90 days I was doing eight sets of 20-25 pullups per set, depending on the grip. At that rate, about 200 pullups in an hour workout.

You can go up significantly in a short amount of time, but with that said 50 pullups is EXTREME to say the least and I can't even imagine how much time it would have taken me to get there. The "pros" they had in the P90x workouts might pull off a 35 rep set, but that was about the most I saw any of their ringers do.

Oh and I range about a flyweight 150-160 lbs depending on fitness level. I think 30 in one set was the most I was able to do trying to show off, but that was maxed out and struggling. Now I am 46 and taking another whack at it, back to 10 per set.

s2000Junky

That's pretty impressive I have to say. I'm a weight lifter, have been constantly for the last 15 years, I fluctuate 5-10lb depending on the season, but average clothed I'm 197-205lb and I can do a max rep set of 18-20, but my rep sets go down dramatically after that, from 10 to 6 to 3. I don't think I would be very effective in doing 8 working sets of these as is, without waiting 5 min between sets literally. Different kind of muscle conditioning I guess. I don't know how many body builder type guys do pull up sets like this. Who knows, maybe ive been missing out lol

vader1

That's pretty impressive I have to say. I'm a weight lifter, have been constantly for the last 15 years, I fluctuate 5-10lb depending on the season, but average clothed I'm 197-205lb and I can do a max rep set of 18-20, but my rep sets go down dramatically after that, from 10 to 6 to 3. I don't think I would be very effective in doing 8 working sets of these as is, without waiting 5 min between sets literally. Different kind of muscle conditioning I guess. I don't know how many body builder type guys do pull up sets like this. Who knows, maybe ive been missing out lol
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Sounds pretty good to me. I do think being lighter helps for some reason even if the bigger guy has more muscle mass. Pullups are just a weird exercise.

I also HATE pullups the way I hate certain types of curls. I will do bench press or other things all day, but pullups just suck for some reason. I am starting to try to work out regularly again and thinking I need to start doing more pullups to work my way back to where I was, but then I think, "Ah who are you kidding, you hate pullups, just do more bench and be done with it."