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..