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    Quote Originally Posted by fiddler View Post
    If a "pullup" is something different than this "chin-up^", then I don't know what it is.
    I do them like the link above (chin-ups)
    Never been to a gym but there's a bar set up at the beach here in Phuket.
    I started almost exactly one year ago and could do 2.
    Now, I'm up to 8 on a good day (most days 7, some days only 5)
    My goal is 10 and I think in another year I ought to be able to do it.
    But 20?
    No way will I ever reach 20 in tis life.
    I see guys trying all the time and most of the muscle bound guys do sets of 10.
    There was a guy the other day who had a girl hang onto him and did 10 with her on board.
    I was impressed.
    She was a looker too.
    Different: The description in the link i posted is wrong. Pull-ups are done with palms facing away from you, gripping the bar at a bit more than shoulders-width apart. Chin-ups done with palms facing inwards, narrow grip hands around 15-20 cm apart. Chin-ups are slightly easier to do as you utilize more muscles (biceps, especially) with this grip. You're doing pretty good with 8 pull-ups; I think perfect-form 6 ea. is the benchmark for in-shape guys, (and minimum requirement for Marines). And I think that unlike a lot of people posting on here, you are being honest..

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart
    And I think that unlike a lot of people posting on here, you are being honest..
    I just did four sets this morning: 10; 10; 9; and 8.

    And that's after basically a month off.

    Honest guv!

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    Pull-ups are done with palms facing away from you, gripping the bar at a bit more than shoulders-width apart. Chin-ups done with palms facing inwards, narrow grip hands around 15-20 cm apart. Chin-ups are slightly easier to do
    Ahhhh, ok. Then it's chin-ups that I've been doing. Definitely easier than pull-ups. Put's me out of the pull-up club

    Thinking about it...I have pretty good lats (surfing, diving, swimming and paddling all those years). I should be able to do pull-ups since the lats are a major group in that? But somehow the chin-ups are still easier.
    Just did two pull-ups out at the bike tent. But 4 chin-ups.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    I just did four sets this morning: 10; 10; 9; and 8.

    And that's after basically a month off.

    Honest guv!
    Doing a lot better than me. Last year's 12 is still a PB, but implementing pull-ups into sets I'm still struggling to do better than 9-7-6-4 on average.

    Purchased this pull-up frame recently though. So no excuses for not doing better.

    The 20 pull up club! Anyone wanna join?-frame-jpg
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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    pull-ups into sets I'm still struggling to do better than 9-7-6-4 on average.
    How would it go if you had a sip or two of Red Bull between sets?

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    I pull up my pants about 20 times a day that's about it.

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    Good work everyone!!!!!

    C'mon we can all be a part of the 20 pull up club this year!!!

    Lets make 2019, the TD20 .

    The 20 pull up club! Anyone wanna join?-fbd4531bc4c9e15c412a15ae7cae77c4-jpg



    The club is still elusive to me, persistence pays...

    Some more fvcked up pull up types...
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    I do pull-ups (with a proper pronated grip and full-extension) once per week. I'm up to 18 reps (though I'm breaking form after 15 and kicking my legs a bit). I've found that doing them weighted every other workout helps (I do 2 weighted sets, with 10kg and then 15kg hanging off my belt) - I also do three sets of negatives on that day (the negatives are pretty difficult and, without a spotter, you need to be at a fairly high number of reps to begin with unless you're using the assisted pull-up machine pictured on the first page- I don't like that machine much and never use it, but it's great if you're just starting out).

    I should (hopefully) be at 20 by the end of May barring injury.
    There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    So no excuses for not doing better.
    Never mind mate your a drummer.

    Great cardiovascular exercise.

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    Skinny runt exercise

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    ^How many can you do then, Rambo?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    ^How many can you do then, Rambo?
    How many can you do with 40kg weights?

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    15 on those wall climber grip things:

    I prefer them to the conventional bar

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dasher View Post
    Skinny runt exercise
    92kg here- not huge, but hardly a 'skinny runt'.

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    Same, same.

    93kg still not joined the elusive club yet, both working onit

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    Quote Originally Posted by somtamslap View Post
    I max out at around seven very shoddy chin-ups.
    Down to five now; I'm going the wrong fucking way. I'm pretty good at scowling at myself in the mirror though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by somtamslap View Post
    Down to five now; I'm going the wrong fucking way. I'm pretty good at scowling at myself in the mirror though.
    I hear that Slaps.

    My pull ups are down to single figures, struggle lifting at my weight. Too much of an impact on my joints.

    Shoulder pushes with dumbells is a different story....

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    Quote Originally Posted by FailSafe View Post
    I should (hopefully) be at 20 by the end of May barring injury.
    I posted this at the end of March last year- not long after, I was walking my 90lb Rottweiler (OK- it was a 9lb ,13-year-old, blind poodle), at 4:30am one morning when she smelled a cat or something- I was holding the leash in my left hand with zero tension in my arm ,with my wrist in a supinated (palm upward) position- my arm was jerked hard to the left, injuring my forearm and shoulder (little bitch pulls like a Husky and always has). It wasn't enough to keep me out of the gym, but I had to work around it for months, and my pull-ups went down to the low-teens. I slowly worked my way back, and finally hit a set of 20 pull-ups today.

    I generally try a max rep set every two weeks, and do weighted sets (meaning I hang a 10-15kg plate off my belt) in between, as I mentioned in my post above- I've found it really helps once you get to the point where you can go beyond your body-weight (it takes a while to get here).

    My weight is up to 95kg (209lbs) at 188cm (6'2"), so I'm not a skinny or small guy. I've found that once you pass 15 reps, the exercise becomes semi-aerobic, leading to oxygen depletion and forcing me to concentrate more on my breathing- the shallow breaths I take on a set in the 8-12 rep range don't cut it.

    Now the next goal in 25.

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    Well done.

    Struggling a bit meself with pull-ups recently owing to an injury also.

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    ^^Nice one and reminder. I'm not really progressing with pull-ups. I need to start doing the weighted versions to make any gains.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FailSafe View Post
    92kg here- not huge, but hardly a 'skinny runt'.
    Same weight as myself, can do 5 without a problem or injury presently.
    I prefer push exercises to pull, I guess it's a joint and age dilemma.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    Same weight as myself, can do 5 without a problem or injury presently.
    I prefer push exercises to pull, I guess it's a joint and age dilemma.
    That's a post from over 2.5 years ago- I'm up to 102kg now (hopefully the majority of that extra 10kg is muscle, but certainly not all of it is...). I hit 20 on Wednesday after being stuck on 18/19 for quite a while (which was a great way to start the first back workout of the year), but that was the first time to manage it at a body-weight over 100kg- as my weight went up, I lost a few reps to the extra bulk and a couple injuries (never fewer then 16, but they did go down), and it took quite a while to get them back.

    Five is a good start- if you do multiple sets in the course of a workout, try to add a rep to one of those sets (not necessarily your 'big' set- going from 2 reps to 3 in your third set is as valid a measure of progress as adding a 6th rep to your first set, though it's not as 'sexy' an improvement) weekly. I do at least six sets, and I can usually (not always) squeeze one more rep out somewhere in one of those sets. Have a short-term, achievable goal each workout for all muscle groups- a small weight increase, one more rep- something within reach (remembering what you did in previous workouts is essential). Pull-ups are a bitch, but they're a great exercise, and they take a lot of effort to improve- it's worth it.

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