How Many Pullups can you do?

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  • mideon_696
    mideon_696 Posts: 770 Member
    waiting for chris davey to chime in and make us all look bad. :p

    28, male. 87.5kg

    15 under hand(chinups), 13 overhand shulder width(chest to bar)
    9 wide grip, though i've never really tried any of these when totally fresh.

    All from a dead hang, no kipping rubbish.
  • BenKnowsFitness
    BenKnowsFitness Posts: 451 Member
    F / 36 / 160 / No clue (they're called chin ups) / 2

    First, please forgive all of this because I am a smart butt by nature....

    Allow me to be funny...Thou hadst added the correct term...thank you, they ARE called chin ups. Are those African or European chin ups? Explosion in 3...2...1

    Now on a serious note, let's advise the Commandant that there is an issue with his order below...

    MARINE CORPS ORDER 6100.13
    From: Commandant of the Marine Corps

    section 5.A.8 on "pull ups"

    (8) The bar must be grasped with both palms facing either forward or
    to the rear.
  • mwyatt005
    mwyatt005 Posts: 21 Member
    Male
    weight:155
    Chinups: 10
    Pullups: 15

    A theory that was pounded into my head a long time ago are chin ups are useless when was the last time you gripped a wall/bar or anything else underhand to get your heavy but over it. I took this to heart and haven't done chins ever since.
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    0 :laugh:
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    12 per set courtesy of assisted pull-up machine :laugh:
  • zafferFL
    zafferFL Posts: 402
    Male
    weight:155
    Chinups: 10
    Pullups: 15

    A theory that was pounded into my head a long time ago are chin ups are useless when was the last time you gripped a wall/bar or anything else underhand to get your heavy but over it. I took this to heart and haven't done chins ever since.

    tell that to my biceps :)

    may as well not go to the gym if you want true "function"
  • SAMSON25
    SAMSON25 Posts: 58 Member
    Male
    24
    215 lbs
    23 chin-ups
    18 pull-ups
  • mwyatt005
    mwyatt005 Posts: 21 Member
    Male
    weight:155
    Chinups: 10
    Pullups: 15

    A theory that was pounded into my head a long time ago are chin ups are useless when was the last time you gripped a wall/bar or anything else underhand to get your heavy but over it. I took this to heart and haven't done chins ever since.

    tell that to my biceps :)

    may as well not go to the gym if you want true "function"

    touche good sir touche.
  • tgh1914
    tgh1914 Posts: 1,036 Member
    M/38/147
    Been a while since doing bodyweight only, but last count was 25 CU/20 PU.

    I'm doing em with weight now in pursuit of a true one-handed CU. The theory is that once you get to lifting about 70% of your bw, you should be close. I'm pulling up between 70-80 lbs now (about 54%), so getting kinda close.
  • katya73
    katya73 Posts: 464
    8 wide grip chin ups ( unassisted )

    My goal is 12.. Slowwly have been working toward 12 for about 6 months ... :)
  • victoria4321
    victoria4321 Posts: 1,719 Member
    Sex/ Age /Wieght / Number of Underhand pullups U can do/ number of overhand pullups U can do

    Female / 26 / 134lbs / I can do 3 of each kind.
  • Natx83
    Natx83 Posts: 1,298 Member
    Male 201lbs can do 5 chins and like 1.75 pull ups lol
  • MFPAddict
    MFPAddict Posts: 2,069 Member
    Palms facing you is considered a chin up. Palm facing away is a pull up. So was is it considered when you have side grips with the palms facing your ears?

    That is the grip I use at my gym. I can do 10 of those unassisted.
  • jwalker30
    jwalker30 Posts: 282
    About 25 wide grips, 35 standard grip

    31 / male / 190 lbs
  • BGSchultz
    BGSchultz Posts: 12 Member
    Male / 31 / 215 / I can do 8 either grip
  • poncho33
    poncho33 Posts: 1,511
    Male/29/200/6/??
  • anastasiaBH
    anastasiaBH Posts: 268 Member
    Female / 43 / 145 / 6 unassisted chin ups, 4 unassisted pull ups
    So far.....
  • lickmybaconcakes
    lickmybaconcakes Posts: 1,063 Member
    male, 20, 178 , maximum I've ever done 21
  • walkner88
    walkner88 Posts: 165
    Male, 24, 188, full extension no stupid cross fit swing I can around 12 either way
  • jonnyaloha2011
    jonnyaloha2011 Posts: 6 Member
    Hehehe!
  • Marzipans11
    Marzipans11 Posts: 10 Member
    1/4. No, I mean .25. A quarter of a pullup. :P
  • flausa
    flausa Posts: 534 Member
    Started working on negatives a month ago and then just totally went for the real thing, so am dead chuffed that as of this morning the following are my stats:

    F/37/126/4/1
  • WATRD
    WATRD Posts: 25
    When I started this thing a little over year ago, on one of my first outdoor walks, I encountered a "fitness station" along the trail. No one was looking so, I went over and tried for a chin-up (palms facing). I got about half-way up and that was all she wrote. That was 5-10" and 206 lbs and like 32% body fat.

    I made a vow at that point to never be defeated by them again, so I started working them into every work out. Eventually, I got one, then a little later two and so on. I have since come to really love chin-ups. Squats for the upper body. ;)

    I am now 5-10" and 150 lbs. 8.2% body fat.

    Today at the gym my chin up set was 50. The first 40 were good form, but I was sweating the last 10 ;) hahahahah These are slow, full extension. Recently, I have been playing with inverting them. While hanging from the bar, I bring my knees up to my chest, invert, then thread my feet and legs up between me and the bar and do my chin ups with my legs pointing up. I can only do about 10 of them that way, but they really make the lats and sides of the abdomen burn.

    I don't have the build/genes to get very bulky, but I have bulked up a little and I seem to be getting strong and flexible at a good rate, so I will take it.
  • ster81
    ster81 Posts: 249
    When I started this thing a little over year ago, on one of my first outdoor walks, I encountered a "fitness station" along the trail. No one was looking so, I went over and tried for a chin-up (palms facing). I got about half-way up and that was all she wrote. That was 5-10" and 206 lbs and like 32% body fat.

    I made a vow at that point to never be defeated by them again, so I started working them into every work out. Eventually, I got one, then a little later two and so on. I have since come to really love chin-ups. Squats for the upper body. ;)

    I am now 5-10" and 150 lbs. 8.2% body fat.

    Today at the gym my chin up set was 50. The first 40 were good form, but I was sweating the last 10 ;) hahahahah These are slow, full extension. Recently, I have been playing with inverting them. While hanging from the bar, I bring my knees up to my chest, invert, then thread my feet and legs up between me and the bar and do my chin ups with my legs pointing up. I can only do about 10 of them that way, but they really make the lats and sides of the abdomen burn.

    I don't have the build/genes to get very bulky, but I have bulked up a little and I seem to be getting strong and flexible at a good rate, so I will take it.

    very impressive
  • WATRD
    WATRD Posts: 25
    very impressive

    Thanks! It's about the only skill I get to have at the gym, EVERYONE out lifts me, so I was glad to see a thread where I could chime in too ;)

    Back to lurking for me. ;)
  • MFPAddict
    MFPAddict Posts: 2,069 Member
    Palms facing you is considered a chin up. Palm facing away is a pull up. So was is it considered when you have side grips with the palms facing your ears?

    That is the grip I use at my gym. I can do 10 of those unassisted.

    Anyone know whether I should consider these chin ups or pull ups? Or is there another name for them?

    In any case, I couldn't do a single one when I first started.
  • Scorpioangel
    Scorpioangel Posts: 951 Member
    I can do 10 unassisted pull-ups ;)
  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    Real pullups or kipping pullups?

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    That hurts my spine just watching it.

    I can do 0 and never could do more than one or 2, no matter how skinny and in shape I was. Best I could ever do with no assist is hang from the bar for a bit.
  • almonds1
    almonds1 Posts: 642 Member
    26... I know this because I won a prize for doing it lol
  • garyl7593
    garyl7593 Posts: 38
    M/ 39/ 146/ 12/ 5 :)
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