How many pull ups

[kh_s]

... can you guys do without stopping at the moment?

Can anyone here do 50 full range ones ?

[Szczepankiewicz]

Not anywhere close.

I could do about 10 pullups and about 15 chinups.

Maybe...

[adacas]

1.5 maybe 2 if I stretch properly

[kh_s]

Hey wait a minute, what is a difference between a chin up and a pull up ?

[adacas]

pull ups are palms facing you and chin ups are palms facing away.
but then again I could be wrong. I heard people saying either or.

[sk12879]

Originally posted by adacas
pull ups are palms facing you and chin ups are palms facing away.
but then again I could be wrong. I heard people saying either or.

Technically I believe the terms are interchangable, but what you said is the generally accepted definition of pullup vs chinup. Well, actually, you have it backwards. Pullups are overhand (palms away), chinups are underhand (palms towards...more like an arm curl).

[Thai Bri]

I could do good pull / chin ups when I was 20. I was only about 12 stone and strong. Im stronger now, but much heavier.......

But I have only very very rarely seen them done properly. Regardless of the way the hands face most people kick their legs for momentum, and strain their necks like a cockeral to get their chin to touch the bar. And they don't straighten out at the bottom of the exercise neither. Then they claim silly numbers.

Do them slowly. Do not use momentum, and raise yourself so high that your collar bone touches the bar. Done like this many people can't do any.

[grubbogoppoly]

I prefer going up to the sternum. .You pussy bri

[Tornado]

Its been ages since I tried but doing them properly i'd say I could do between 5-10...

[sk12879]

Doing them properly, full dead hang, collarbone to the bar, about 10 pullups and I'd guess the same number of chin-ups.

[kh_s]

well I did 12 with poor form, first try since I left my gym, which was about 1 year ago, I only weight about 120 lbs. also, so I aint too happy with the number

[Tom Yum]

17 pullups from hanging position.

I don't workout my upper body as much as I do my lower body though since so much of my speed and power comes from my trunk and legs.

[ryanhall]

I can do more pull-ups than chin-ups. I can usually get about 18-24 and 10-17 respectively. I sometimes lose good form when I get up around eighteen or nineteen, though.

[Stigma]

My arm strenght is attrocious... I do about 3 of each. Thats real ones though, no "cheating" in the form.

I need to find a place to hang a br around this place, so i can use that excersice more often

[Sean Dempsey]

Chin up: more bicep involved




Pull up: more lat involved