How many pull ups do you think a person ought to be able to do? Not what is a great or even really good, just enough to show a generally good balance between body size and musculature?
This would be different for men and women I suppose.
How many pull ups do you think a person ought to be able to do? Not what is a great or even really good, just enough to show a generally good balance between body size and musculature?
This would be different for men and women I suppose.
Never be satisfied.
There is really no answer to this question since strength is so heavily dependent on genetics.
03v0upl4 wrote:
http://www.lonkilgore.com/freebies/muscle_endurance_standards_small.pdf
Unreal. There is an answer for everything.
03v0upl4 wrote:
http://www.lonkilgore.com/freebies/muscle_endurance_standards_small.pdf
According to those "standards":
50% of men (under 40) can do 12 proper pullups.
A man under 40 who can do only 8 proper pullups is in the bottom 16%.
Neither of those "standards" could possibly be true. My recollection from high school PE (25 years ago, before everyone was fat) is that half the boys couldn't do more than 3 or 4 pullups.
hard to believe wrote:
According to those "standards":
50% of men (under 40) can do 12 proper pullups.
A man under 40 who can do only 8 proper pullups is in the bottom 16%.
Neither of those "standards" could possibly be true. My recollection from high school PE (25 years ago, before everyone was fat) is that half the boys couldn't do more than 3 or 4 pullups.
I agree with what you are saying.
If, on the other hand, one interprets the categories "untrained", "Novice",... a bit more loosely then (for me at least) the numbers (12 for intermediate, 16 for advanced, etc) don't seem entirely unreasonable.
If you look at all his other wallcharts, they are based on the 'population' of competitive weightlifters and powerlifters. I think something similar is going on here.
Anyway, they are good targets to shoot for.
eurodonkey wrote:
If you look at all his other wallcharts, they are based on the 'population' of competitive weightlifters and powerlifters. I think something similar is going on here.
Anyway, they are good targets to shoot for.
It's just like those threads on here where people suggest that the average 20 something male should be able to drop a 17 minute 5k with a little training.
personally, I can always do 10-12 without training. In my peak form I could do 25 and thought that was outstanding.
i was able to do about 25-30 in my peak form when i was doing a lot of weight lifting and strength training my senior year of high school (before i started running) (6 years ago). now i can do like 12, maybe. the marine corps says you should be able to do 20 to get a perfect on that portion of the physical test. 20 pull ups, x situps, 18:00 3-mile run. google the sit ups if curious.
I can do 6 or 7 at almost any point. With a little bit of training (I was doing pullups once a week) I got up to 10 without any problem...and I'm a girl.
xrunnerz wrote:
personally, I can always do 10-12 without training. In my peak form I could do 25 and thought that was outstanding.
That sounds about right. I can do about 20-22 and can usually do 7-8 without training.
Oh and the Marines thing is 100 crunches in 2 minutes.
How many pull ups?
The same number as pull downs.
They're NEVER enough.
WITH TRAINING 20
w/o training I can do maybe 4, probably 2
Pull ups are awesome. So are dips and you get strong for that particular exercise quick. I can only do 5 these days put used to pull off 20 after 5 sets of 10 along with sets of dips and pushups. Great excercise and applicable to running but the most overlooked is hyperextensions on a bench, when that lower back is like iron you maintain form at the end of a race plus run more upright and waste less energy when you get tired in the middle.