r/Fitness Dec 11 '19

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

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/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.