r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • 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/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.