How many ______ can you do?

Last PFT I think I got 27 dead hang pull ups. Palms out, wide monkey grip, dead hang, chin over bar.

3 years ago, I could only do like 2... now it's my favorite exercise :) I have a friend who before he left for bootcamp, was getting like 60 something. Absolute freak.
 
adams-usmc said:
Last PFT I think I got 27 dead hang pull ups. Palms out, wide monkey grip, dead hang, chin over bar.

3 years ago, I could only do like 2... now it's my favorite exercise :) I have a friend who before he left for bootcamp, was getting like 60 something. Absolute freak.
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Well, I don't think I'll be doing 27 anytime soon. That's great.
I will however, do my best to get to 20.

Anyone else want to try and do a few with us?
:D:D
 
OOOOO Chin ups????? :eek: I have never been able to do those. . . I have the upper body strength of an infant. Actually they may have more, they can lift themselves up from laying down LOL I've started going to the gym as well, I figured it's the best time to get back into the routine. That gives me all winter to actually make results happen this time. Even though Christmas. . . . . Oh wait, Thanksgiving. . . .New Year. Ahhhh dang, I guess I will just have to run an extra mile. :D
 
Some where I had heard this... " You know the best way to get good at doing pull ups... do more pull ups." I used to love doing them in highschool, and got pretty good at them. Fast forward a couple decades, and I couldn't hardly do 5 in a row. I started working out again like 5 years ago, but I still could not do them very well. I started doing the p90x videos with the wife, in addition to my regular workouts. Needless to day I have gotten allot better at them. The dude that instructs the video males you sick how easy he makes it look though. He is like 49 years old and bust them out like it's nothing.
 
You mean pulling my chin up off the bar?

At 61, I can (probably) do 10 chin up's if forced to. Pull up's? Perhaps five. But its been awhile. I once won a one-armed push up contest with 25. But that was thirty years ago...;-)
 
Im in!!! I can do 11 full extened "pull ups" wrist out. I am an visit the gym often and have been working on my pull ups. I would like to get to 20 too.
 
I can do 20-21 palms out and 20-21 palms in. I only do 1 set of each a week and have hit a plateau, can't get past 21.
 
I tore/broke my bicep tendon in my left arm. I heard a pop then my whole arm instantly turned blue. Went to the Dr. and he said there wasn't much I could do about it. Now I have what they call a Popeye muscle. After some of my own detective work I found it could have be reattached. It just didn't mean that much to him as it did to me.
 
Now just to keep people honest here...
I propose "video clip or it didn't happen"
If you boast you can do 10 pull ups, post a video of you doing your 10 pull ups with a busse of your choice strapped on. We can make it contest. Busse and feet must be visible so no cheating, head is optional. You can be a wimp and do them with a skeleton key, but bonus points will be awarded for heavier knives.

Boss Jack weight class adds 1 bonus pull up credit
nmsfno class = 2 credits
nmfbm class = 3 credits
moab class = 4 credits
glaius/sword class = 5 pull up credits

one month to train
Boss man should chip in some shop credit for the winner :rolleyes:
 
Pokey1 said:
OOOOO Chin ups????? :eek: I have never been able to do those. . . I have the upper body strength of an infant. Actually they may have more, they can lift themselves up from laying down LOL I've started going to the gym as well, I figured it's the best time to get back into the routine. That gives me all winter to actually make results happen this time. Even though Christmas. . . . . Oh wait, Thanksgiving. . . .New Year. Ahhhh dang, I guess I will just have to run an extra mile. :D
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The lat. pulldown machine is your friend. Seriously, tack on a plate every few days and before you know it, you'll have pull-ups mastered.
Also try out the seated cable row.
 
If you can't do one yet start at the top and slowly lower yourself. Do multiple reps that way every other day for a couple weeks and when you try to pull up, you'll find you can crank out at least one or two
 
Hey Eric, this sounds fun. Speaking of that weight loss thing, I failed :o did not get to my goal. Last 7 pounds have been really really tough. Where do I pay up? :p

Anywhere, here's another program that might be able to help out: the Recon Ron program. I've heard of better results from it compared to the Armstrong one, although it's less popular.

Here's the chart: http://webpages.charter.net/bert/reconron.html
Here are the instructions:
  • Each day Monday-Saturday, do the workout for the week you're on. Take Sunday off.
  • The workout is 5 sets. The number of reps in each set is on the rows in the weeks column.

For example, if you're starting on week one, you'll do 6 pull-ups for the first set, take a short rest, then 5, rest, 5, rest, 4, rest, 3. Do that each day Monday to Saturday. Next week, your workout will be sets of 7, 6, 5, 4, 4, and so on.

Here are some inspiration and ideas to keep things interesting for you folks. Some are more about pull ups, but the basic skills they go over should carry over into chin ups.

These two are for rings (the part 2 video is very rings-oriented, so I left it out), but they got the basic ideas down for pull ups: activate your lats and pull down your shoulders first, and if you're having trouble getting in those last few reps, it's okay to use momentum to get to the top and slowly lower yourself. It's not cheating--it'll still help you progress.
[video=youtube;V3HuyF27MCs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HuyF27MCs[/video]
[video=youtube;wV5oNX4vYDU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV5oNX4vYDU[/video]

Here are some videos on free hanging, not even doing pull ups or chin ups. Of course the skills are related though and if you work on these, they'll also help you progress.
[video=youtube;iIVg_KK_Uzs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIVg_KK_Uzs[/video]
(have to link to the rest since we can only embed three videos max)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoE-C85ZlCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C995b3KLXS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNT51BMAR-Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekZmL4LVkvA

Finally, once you're able to get your chin ups, you can start a workout based around them. Here's one created by some cool calisthenics guys on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBssYUOH3x0

Some personal tips from me:
  • Keeps your legs and core engaged rather than flailing them around. For chin ups, I like to tuck my knees into my chest; pull ups, arch back and try to kick my own butt. Reason being that the muscles throughout our whole bodies are meant to work together, and I like to get that chain going. Chin ups have a very closed, global flexion feeling, while pull ups go the opposite way.
  • Keep your shoulders externally rotated, i.e., rotate at the shoulder so that your elbows face each other. Don't force them beyond what's comfortable, but just in general, a really big posture problem modern life gives us is internally rotated shoulders. You can see it very clearly on this guy and how his thumbs point toward each other instead of pointing forward when he stands naturally
    1-InternalRotation-UpperBody-3.jpg
  • Loosen up your shoulder blades. Here are two good videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Wo095zPnc abd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzozw2Aso3M

Also, since the title of the thread doesn't specify chin ups and we're on the topic of bars, I'd like to also propose dips and pull ups :D
 
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doing negatives works wonders. Step up to the bar, step off the chair or stool or whatever and then fight them down. Controlled decent will make you very sore. Muscle fiber tearing occurrs on the eccentric contraction (lengthening of the muscle). Those micro tears are make you sore.
 
Riz2530 said:
doing negatives works wonders. Step up to the bar, step off the chair or stool or whatever and then fight them down. Controlled decent will make you very sore. Muscle fiber tearing occurrs on the eccentric contraction (lengthening of the muscle). Those micro tears are make you sore.
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When I first read this I read it as "step up to the bar, step off the chair, walk off".
I thought I can do this workout. I'm in ;)

Still working on this. I did 11 last Friday, maybe not the best 11 I've ever done but I did do 11.
Also remembered how much I don't like doing chin-ups ;)
 
I think I want to get myself to a point where I can preform a "muscle up" on a set of hanging rings. We'll see if I can actually get there.
 
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