How may pullups Can you do ???

are you the same as yesterday? wrote:

I was in a lecture by a top cc track coach this week and he said the only "upper" body stuff he had the team doing was weighted wrist lifts. the rational being that if you are strong at the base and have endurance there you can hold it together throughout the arms getting tired.

Huh?

4 PULL UPS

10 chin ups

I used to be a swimmer, and can do about 25 good chin-ups now, but it took me years to get up to that. I seriously doubt I would ever be able to do this without the swimming background.

I CAN DO 10 sets of 20 chinups and yes I am a girl.

I started doing upper body weights 2 - 4 times a week from last November. I went climbing for the first time in Wyoming last year (with a guide service); I want to do more of that, and so have been gym climbing before each of the above-mentioned weight sessions. I usually start with pull-ups right after about an hour of easy bouldering (horizontal laps across a climbing wall), plus some easy (5.4 - 5.6) climbing. All this is to (I hope) make me a more stable and confident climber.

I've gotten to six. This is the "correct" way that climbers do these, palms away and shoulder width apart. I could do maybe two when I started.

If you can only do a few (or none, this is not uncommon), there is an exercise that can move you along quickly:

Stand on a stool under your pull-up bar. Grab the bar while still standing on the stool. Hold yourself in the "lock-off" position (elbows bent 90 degrees, chin above the bar, i.e., as if you were at the top of your pull-up if you could do one) - then step off the stool. Hold yourself at this position for a count of five, and let yourself down slowly. Get back up on the stool and do this a few more times. Here's an illustrated description of this exercise:

http://www.climbing.com/techtips/sport/tttrain227/

3 x 7 chin ups

0 pull ups

yea i know im weak but im a decent runner

17 USMC certified pull-ups

I'm a woman and can do between 10 and 15 pullups from a full hang.

the most ive ever did was 20 chinups after an xc race...and 23 another day...i dont know how many pullups i can do im guessing around 15

jaysonjo.com wrote:

I believe this is what you are referring to:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Power/WtPowerStraight.html

Damn I never saw that before. I've got to give that a try.

I used to be able to do 16 proper pullups, but that was over 4 years ago. I did some after a run at a park one day and don't think I managed much more than 6. I was pretty beat from the run, but don't think I could do more than 10.

I do these quite a bit at my gym and get very strange looks.

yea

3 guys on one of my teams did their chins/pullups with 1 arm, the other arm at their side. I can only manage 1 or 2 pull ups, but with only 1 finger on each hand -- how many of you can do that?

Being able to do pull up or chin ups has very little impact on one's ability to run fast.

The better question is how many sub 4:45 miles can you run?

My answer: 6 with 45 seconds rest between each.

you're right, no one said pull ups have any impact on a person's ability to run fast. i think we can all agree that pull ups, chin ups, push ups, etc, all help gain strength.

you might be able to do 6x4:45 miles with 45 second rests (biggie), but thats not even remotely close to what the original poster was asking.

enlighten us with how many pull ups you can do.

I climb about once a week. My level is 5.9, which is considered borderline intermediate-advanced. But I can only do about three pullups. Someone else said that you don't need a whole lot of arm strength to rock climb. That's probably true at my level, which is mostly appropriate for vertical walls.

It's really about using good technique. Finger strength, balance, and flexibility are more important than arm strength, at least on vertical walls where you often have tiny holds spaced far apart.

Where the arm strength becomes important is on overhanging walls. The steeper the overhang, the more strength you need. But even I can climb some overhang.

I would love to be able to do 10 pullups for the satisfaction of doing it and to be able to climb beyond the 5.9 level. But I'm not sure that upper body strength helps you run faster. Sure, sprinters often have muscular arms, but that's because they usually have muscular bodies. Not all of them are muscular, though. Remember Calvin Smith? He was very slender and was a world record holder at 100 meters (9.93 secs).

Does anyone think you need to lift weights to improve your running? When I became a serious runner at 14, I remember my arms and shoulders getting tired on long runs. But over time, my arms and shoulders adapted to that particular stress.

If you lift weights to increase your upper body strength, I think you just add some muscle mass that doesn't help you run any faster but that only makes you heavier as a runner.

12 hour record set by 16 year old

www.abcnews

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2406 is the actual count, the listing is incorrect but he did break the previous record

Back when I was running I would go over to the bleachers after a workout and use the underside of them to do the palm facing forward ones, I started at 3 and think I got up to 6 about a month later. The palm facing your face kind are alot easier because you can use bicep and back strength and switch between the two, think I got up to 17 of those. My buddy did 16 so I remember doing just enough to win.

I read somewhere that Tergat couldn´t do 10 push ups, so I doubt that he can do a single pull up.

21 chinups, last month;

18 pullups (palms away), several months ago

Not jerky but quick w/ 95% + extension (full is not great for joints).

Also pushups and pullups have very little to do with each other. When I was benching 125-130 I could still manage 15-16 chinups, and I've been benching over 200 at times when my max was around 17-18.