How many pull ups can you do at one time?

[Glenzig]

1/2. Maybe. If I fart real hard.

[Jfertal]

Originally Posted by Portasaurus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Full hang.

I have a question, though. I'm doing full extension and not bouncing, but the "pull up bar" at my gym isn't like a classic horizontal bar. it's got all these fancy handles that stick out in all sorts of crazy directions.

Here are the ones I grab onto and pull my chin up all the way above my knuckles.

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Am I doing real pull ups?
If not, what am I doing?

Do I look like an asshole at my gym?
Wait, don't answer that...

Those style pull up you are doing with those handles utiluze more of your bicep then your back.
Rocking the horizontal overhand really wide will get your back.

And yeah you only count full hang. None of that halfway shit.
The only people who look like assholes are the guys do short little pumps not ever full extending

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by Formshifter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

ITT "i can do pullups!"
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that's good


5 for me

[Kekephee]

Originally Posted by Portasaurus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Full hang.

I have a question, though. I'm doing full extension and not bouncing, but the "pull up bar" at my gym isn't like a classic horizontal bar. it's got all these fancy handles that stick out in all sorts of crazy directions.

Here are the ones I grab onto and pull my chin up all the way above my knuckles.

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Am I doing real pull ups?
If not, what am I doing?

Do I look like an asshole at my gym?
Wait, don't answer that...

The short answer is they're all essentially pullups, it's just some place more emphasis on your lats, some place more on your biceps, some on your deltoids- they all will provide some percentage to all of the same muscle groups, BUT different amounts. If you're a fucking maniac purist who has to get his routine perfect there's a lot of research to be done as to how the exercises you're doing interact with these ("omg i'm doing 4 different bicep and 3 different deltoid exercises, I must do pullups that emphasize my lats 40% more than those to achieve perfect balance) but if you just want to be a normal human being who is a member of society just try to do a little bit of each kind. It's good to rotate different exercises both because your body, doing the same exercises over and over again, adapts to those exercises and it's kind of a misleading, uh, "false strength" or whatever, and also because it keeps things FRESH like JAPANESE PANTIES

[Kekephee]

in before ten pages of the difference between pullups and chinups


The important thing is GET THAT EAGLE SPREAD

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[Portasaurus]

Originally Posted by Kekephee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

JAPANESE PANTIES

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[Jontheripper]

Originally Posted by Portasaurus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I can do four!

That's better than the zero it used to be!

Apparently you only need to be able to do three to get into the Marines.

C'mon, tough guys! I wanna hear how many you can do! (Since this is apparently a fitness forum)

Bout tree-fiddy