think if you set your mind to it, you could get 50 pullups?

[binö]

be a helluva goal.
think you could do it?
discuss

 

[calveless wonder]

hell no. to increase your strength that much you'd have to go up in weight, which means you'd be pulling more lbs....which means your strength would have to increase exponentially to your weight.

 

[binö]

hell no

asian guy i work with, about 50 yrs old, can knock out 50 pullups without giving it much effort.
real deal pullups all the way down, he stops at 50 but he could easily get 70-80 maybe even a bill.
amazing imo

 

[lartinos]

I have gotten pretty fuggin low on BF and I could never do more than 20.

 

[RottenWillow]

More a function of fiber type than muscular strength. You'd need a preponderance of fast twitch fibers in your bis and lats.

 

[lartinos]

More like you have to be short as hell and be pretty skinny!
No way the guy is over 6ft tall!(I'm 6'1) No fucking way!!!
Pulling my long ass arms up is way more work than some 5 4' dood.

 

[binö]

More like you have to be short as hell and be pretty skinny!
No way the guy is over 6ft tall!(I'm 6'1) No fucking way!!!
Pulling my long ass arms up is way more work than some 5 4' dood.

meh, guy is about 5'10ish...jacked skinny, kinda built like bruce lee.
a freak...typa guy who won't run for months on end and when he finally goes for a run he can blaze consecutive 6 min miles and smoke bros 30yrs his junior.
and i'm good for about 25-30 clean pullups at the same height

 

[dutchman063]

the dudes that are built like light bulbs (chicken legs) can do lots of pullups.

 

[lartinos]

Not over 6 foot, but pretty close. Short ass arms for 5 10' guy then. Way harder to bench or do pull ups when you have long arms.

 

[SouthernLord]

I've seen a video of Konstanovis (275lb powerlifter) do 55 pull ups. Quite impressive imo.