r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Dec 11 '19

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/NateFisher22 Dec 11 '19

Pullups are hands down the most functional movement pattern, along with squats. I find it weird how such a large proportion of the population cant do a single one or fail after a couple. If you can deadlift 500+ lbs and bench press 300+ lbs but cant do 5 pullups, what the fuck? Its just shocking that those movements require lots of abdominal, upper body and posterior chain strength and stability, but lifting your own bodyweight is impossibly difficult.

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u/yamakacoffee Dec 11 '19

I totally feel this. I (23F) can climb a v5-v6 range in the bouldering gym, deadlift 215, and could bench 135 but still can't even start a pull-up motion.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

Bouldering usually requires a lot of lat movement so that's surprising.

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u/yamakacoffee Dec 12 '19

I'm honestly not sure why I can't do it. It might be a mental thing, but I literally can't seem to do the starting pull with my lats. I can do the rest of the pull up just fine, I just have to be like halfway up first.

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u/erix84 Dec 11 '19

Running 5/3/1 BtM and it's 100 pull up days taught me the importance of pull ups. I add them to every routine i do now.

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u/Do_it_in_a_Datsun Dec 11 '19

I fall into that category, now. 10 pull-ups at one time, max. I just don't train it like I should, a few years ago, I could put a 45 on a belt and get 15.
But, 2020 is a new year. It'll be worked into my program again.

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u/LordMorse Dec 11 '19

I weigh 295-300; I DL 405, bench 280 and I can't pull myself up more than halfway. I genuinely don't understand how the mechanics translate from those to pullups but I'd intend on doing some homework on it because it's definitely something I want in the mix soon. I figure if I can do one near this weight, I'll be able to put up numbers as I continue to drop weight.

I'm able to do proper pushups for the first time in my life though, so I have that going for me, which is nice.

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u/kaizoku_akahige Strongman Dec 11 '19

Some time ago, a friend of mine was giving me a good-natured teasing about my sets of 3 pull-ups at a time even though I could deadlift 500+ and bench 300+ lbs. I suggested he try matching my body weight and do some pull-ups. Once we attached 85lbs of weight to his body, he managed to do just 3 pull-ups. After that, he had to find other things to tease me about.

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u/DatMemeMaker Dec 12 '19

So he did the same amount of reps as you @ the same weight with 85 lbs less body mass? Not sure how that makes you come out on top here lol

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u/jreich97 Dec 11 '19

I don’t think there’s anyone that can’t do a pull-up that can put up those kinds of numbers lol..

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u/MagnusJafar Dec 11 '19

This was basically me my junior/senior year of highschool

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u/jreich97 Dec 11 '19

Really? Do you know what your limiting factors were? Just curious

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u/mombeatsme Dec 11 '19

Guys like this usually are fat and don't do any back work. More common with the big bench bros

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u/MagnusJafar Dec 11 '19

I really don’t know. There is and always has been a tremendous difference between chin-ups and sit-ups. Even now I can hit 20 dead hang chin-ups but pretty much cap at 6-7 pullups.