Poll: Pull ups. Have you ever done one?

[Aurora Firestorm]

I can do a lot of pushups, and I'm pretty good with squats, but pullups are a beast. Actually, it was chinups, and my biceps suck, so maybe that was it. I once could do two in a row, and no bananas on that anymore -- I need to get back into shape in the upper body department.

My lat pulldown is at 100 lbs -- I think I could do 110 if I really tried -- so I'm slowly approaching body weight at 150. When I hit that, it's let's-try-pullups time.

 

[Smurf McSmurfington]

They're pretty easy, though they tire me quickly so I can only do perhaps 5 pullups before I'm beat. Then again I haven't been to the gym in ages so that's to be expected anyway. Thankfully I have a fairly decent genetic composition so I don't really lose all of my muscle mass when I don't go to the gym regularly.

 

[dimensional]

Havent done any in years but back when I used to work at a builders merchants there was a bar (iron bar not drinks bar) above the counter that I could just about reach if I jumped high enough so if it was quiet and I had nothing to do I used to see how many one armed pull ups I could do before I got knackered or the next customer came in (or the boss spotted me messing about).

Dont know how many it was now though that was many a year ago but I dont think I would be too bad as I started training again when I was 20 after being disgusted at my deterioration in ability to do push ups and sit ups and can now do more than I could in my teens by quite a wide margin.

 

[Sticky Squid]

I can do them, no reason for it as I have never actually made an effort to be healthy.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

I have almost no muscles, but I'm also quite underweight, so I can do pull ups easily, but it wouldn't exactly help my muscles build up if I did xP

 

[garjian]

I do pull ups all the time on Autumn/Spring mornings... I live across the road from a park, and those misty mornings when nobody walks their dog or hangs about, i go out for a walk, and i end up doing pull ups on all the football goalposts as i walk 'round.

I do casually lift weights quite often as well, so theyre quite easy. I weigh 90~kg, and can do 10 or so in one go, depending on how tired i am in the morning.

Its an exercise i often forget about because i cant do it in the comfort of my room.

 

[Nouw]

I could since I weigh next to nothing and a 14 year old girl can carry me.

That is strangely specific .

It's strangely specific because it happened, it was my cousin she just wanted to show me a drawing she'd made and I told her I was too tired so she just picked me up and carried me there, I would have done something about it but I was too shocked to react I mean I thought stuff like that wouldn't happen ever since I became tall but apparently I still weigh nothing kind off odd considering I'm 1.9 meter tall (6.2 Ft) and the fact that I can eat an entire buffet, I guess I'm just magic, maybe I'm an elf and that's why I weigh nothing or something like that.

That was awfully nice of her. If you ever see her again, tell her I said that . I always thought that tall people tended to be thinner and weighed less. Well, not always but as a rule of thumb

 

[LetalisK]

Ah yes, the pull-up. That's the big thing that separates the Physical Fitness Test for the Marines and the Army.

In the Marines that portion of the test is 100% at 20 pull-ups (fingers forward... no sissy chin-ups in my Corps.)

Gives the back muscles a good beating

And thank god, I say. I'll do push ups and sit ups all day long, but I hate doing pull ups. Don't know why, since my back is my favorite body part to do in the gym.

 

[Angerwing]

I can do 20 dead-hang chin ups in a row, normally. About 10 Wide grip overhand pulls.

 

[White Lightning]

I can do pull ups, not alot but I can do some.

 

[Kae]

I could since I weigh next to nothing and a 14 year old girl can carry me.

That is strangely specific .

It's strangely specific because it happened, it was my cousin she just wanted to show me a drawing she'd made and I told her I was too tired so she just picked me up and carried me there, I would have done something about it but I was too shocked to react I mean I thought stuff like that wouldn't happen ever since I became tall but apparently I still weigh nothing kind off odd considering I'm 1.9 meter tall (6.2 Ft) and the fact that I can eat an entire buffet, I guess I'm just magic, maybe I'm an elf and that's why I weigh nothing or something like that.

That was awfully nice of her. If you ever see her again, tell her I said that . I always thought that tall people tended to be thinner and weighed less. Well, not always but as a rule of thumb

Well I guess it was, I'll be sure to tell her when I see her again not that I'm looking forward to it she's awfully clingy, though to be fair it would only be logical to her that she was still able to do it, I mean if she could do it when I was 17 and she was 11 there was no reason she couldn't do it now, though back then she was actually taller than me and she wasn't that tall for an 11 year old, but still if she could do it then it's not that odd that she can still do it, still a good example of how light I am and how weak I am since I can't do pull ups.[sub][sub]Spaghetti arms[/sub][/sub]

 

[Nouw]

Well I guess it was, I'll be sure to tell her when I see her again not that I'm looking forward to it she's awfully clingy, though to be fair it would only be logical to her that she was still able to do it, I mean if she could do it when I was 17 and she was 11 there was no reason she couldn't do it now, though back then she was actually taller than me and she wasn't that tall for an 11 year old, but still if she could do it then it's not that odd that she can still do it, still a good example of how light I am and how weak I am since I can't do pull ups.[sub][sub]Spaghetti arms[/sub][/sub]

No need to put yourself down . Being weak and light isn't a bad thing.

 

[Kae]

Well I guess it was, I'll be sure to tell her when I see her again not that I'm looking forward to it she's awfully clingy, though to be fair it would only be logical to her that she was still able to do it, I mean if she could do it when I was 17 and she was 11 there was no reason she couldn't do it now, though back then she was actually taller than me and she wasn't that tall for an 11 year old, but still if she could do it then it's not that odd that she can still do it, still a good example of how light I am and how weak I am since I can't do pull ups.[sub][sub]Spaghetti arms[/sub][/sub]

No need to put yourself down . Being weak and light isn't a bad thing.

Oh I can see how that could come off as me being depressed, I'm not I really don't mind being weak and other than that time the wind was so strong that I had to hug a post remain attached to the earth I can't think of any inconveniences to being light, besides most things that require physical strength have workarounds so it doesn't really affect me.

 

[Nouw]

Oh I can see how that could come off as me being depressed, I'm not I really don't mind being weak and other than that time the wind was so strong that I had to hug a post remain attached to the earth I can't think of any inconveniences to being light, besides most things that require physical strength have workarounds so it doesn't really affect me.

That's good to hear ^^. I sometimes want to be blown away by the wind. I want to know what it feels like. Was it scary?

 

[Kae]

Oh I can see how that could come off as me being depressed, I'm not I really don't mind being weak and other than that time the wind was so strong that I had to hug a post remain attached to the earth I can't think of any inconveniences to being light, besides most things that require physical strength have workarounds so it doesn't really affect me.

That's good to hear ^^. I sometimes want to be blown away by the wind. I want to know what it feels like. Was it scary?

Nope, it wasn't my feet were flailing on the air it was certainly fun and my parents were just and brothers were just laughing at the fact that the air could pick me up but then again this happened when I was 8 so I probably weighed nothing back then since I was pretty short and I've always been as fat as toothpick.

 

[Nouw]

Oh I can see how that could come off as me being depressed, I'm not I really don't mind being weak and other than that time the wind was so strong that I had to hug a post remain attached to the earth I can't think of any inconveniences to being light, besides most things that require physical strength have workarounds so it doesn't really affect me.

That's good to hear ^^. I sometimes want to be blown away by the wind. I want to know what it feels like. Was it scary?

Nope, it wasn't my feet were flailing on the air it was certainly fun and my parents were just and brothers were just laughing at the fact that the air could pick me up but then again this happened when I was 8 so I probably weighed nothing back then since I was pretty short and I've always been as fat as toothpick.

Aah that makes more sense. A fully-grown adult being pushed around by the wind is a little worrying. By that I mean it's probably quite dangerous.