there's women who climb vastly harder than that who can't do a single pullup.
Yup, I know of at least one woman who can climb in the mid 8s and has flashed E7 who can't do a pull up.
Climbing aside, one armers are an intrinsically worthwhile achievement and a life tick every man should have... I kind of got there(ish) via offsets - pull hard with one arm, assisted by one or two fingers on the other arm for four or so reps, switch arms and repeat.
Another way to work towards them is by one-arming on a lat pull machine. Doing that in my early twenties I got to about 10 lbs under my (then) bodyweight, which means I was pulling down about what I weigh now. Does that count, kinda? 😉
I could bench 85% of my deadlift which is guess what I had in my head.
That's quite a big chunk of deadlift, although I reckon you're a bit of an outlier in that case. My bench is more like 60% of deadlift. But I have long(ish) arms & fairly shallow ribcage - all wrong for bench, but all right deadlift.
Interesting article on Bench/Squat/DL ratios
That's quite a big chunk of deadlift, although I reckon you're a bit of an outlier in that case. My bench is more like 60% of deadlift. But I have long(ish) arms & fairly shallow ribcage - all wrong for bench, but all right deadlift.
Probably. I was never very enthusiastic about going for one-rep-max lifts on deadlifts.
Well Twinwall, you've ruined my life.
Finished a brick tonight, feeling 'pumped' and having read this thread thought I'd see what I've got in me, which is, apparently......2. And the second one might not have passed an independant adjudication. 😥
Used to be able to do half a dozen or so, not anymore. 38. More core work for me then.
Thought i'd just do an update on the pull ups progress, well it's getting serious i've now got it in my head to do 50 consecutive, strict form.
I've also enlisted the help of a personal trainer and on Friday i did 37, 😯 got to say amazed myself and the trainer! and now think 50 is a possibility.
Just to recap, i'm 52 and i even gave up my beloved ale to assist progress. 😥
Surely your target should be 52 then? Big kudos if you can do as many pull ups as your age (though less so if you're only 18)!
37! That is phenomenal. Good luck for 50! Get a vid up on youtube.
