On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:16:09 -0700 (PDT), Grokman Grokman
wrote:
On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 2:13:18 PM UTC-4, Harold McKinney wrote:
"Though I tried a fast rep of 25 pull ups [chortle] and started getting
some chest pressure at 20 [chortle], yesterday. I cant do more than
about 5 one handed pull ups anymore..sigh..old age is creeping up."
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...o/rOC-Y63ENh8J
A scant three years later:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1040422...22097241260450
gummer has never done even a single one-handed pullup, of course.
gummer has never been able to do 25 pullups. At age 53, 210 lb, gummer
couldn't do *one* two-handed pullup.
Awwww, Gummer, Moi is proly yer biggest fan here. Only fan?? LOL
But goddamm, 1-handed pullups?? Those are hard to find even on youtube! You need gymnastic level strength/wt ratios to pull these off. The guys that can do these are sinewy bean poles. Frank Medrano might be one who can.
I graduated from highschool in 71' at 6'3" and change and 195 lbs. Id
spent the previous 12 yrs doing both downhill and x-country skying
during the winter months, archery competion and canoe racing during
the summer months. My arms were IRRC 17" in diameter. In fact..they
were about as big or bigger than my neck. Helping a couple log cutters
didnt hurt much either.
I had pretty good upper body strength..shrug..not much for legs and
thighs..but chest, shoulders and biceps...shrug. I wasnt big and
beefy like the body builder types..but when I grabbed ahold of
something..it generally didnt get away. I could....get 15 decent one
arm pullups..then start to stagger on the last 3-5. Made a couple
dollars a time or two in bars and such places doing one handed
pullups. Bout the time I left home..I started beating my Dad doing
one handed pullups. We used the bathroom door with a wide molding
around one side..had about 1" to latch onto. He was/probably still is
a stout little *******. Bout 5'9", about 160ish. Saw him pick up a
Jeep engine out of the back of a pickup, carry it over his shoulder
and drop carry it over to the crane to put it into the jeep. Ill will
never forget that. Bout did him in..but he did it. That engine
weighed a fair amount more than he did..so I tried to do better.
Dad a couple months ago at 84 yrs of age
https://picasaweb.google.com/1040422...55705320630338
I knew one guy, built like an gorilla that could do 30 without
breaking much of a sweat. Black guy, about 6', 250. Take a steel
helmet in one hand and treat it like the basketball players one
handing a basketball. Steel helmets weigh about 3 lbs.
Basketball..about 22 oz or so IRRC. Zero flex to get a grip on as
well. He grew up on a farm, handling hay bails....thousands and
thousands of hay bales. Probably the strongest guy "off the line" Ive
ever met. Not real fast..but..strong.
A year or so ago I could manage 1 or two barely-controllable negative reps one-handed, at 6', 180 lbs.
So unpleasant to do, haven't done them since, sure I'd have to practice like crazy to do them again. Easy to tear a bicep doing these, proly not advisable to even try anymore, esp with age.
I mostly gave em up after the second back surgery in 89. I had my
left arm crushed in 76..so couldnt do but about half of what I could
with my right. Took me 3 yrs to be able to pull my standard 70lb bow.
Still can do it..but dropped the weight down to 60lbs to save on some
of the tears/dings/old joints.
This is what I looked like in 78 or so. Not a "bull of the woods" by
any means. I think I was around 180 or so. Got out of the miltary at
167ish in 74.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1040422...81326819692466
This will blow your mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCOah6uN5ro
Funny, these guys didn't look particularly cut up/developed, but wow...
The last guy, even tho he topped the list, is doing some Crossfit kipping bull****, which proly gave him an extra 5 reps or so. Still, all enormously impressive, these guys disguise the true difficulty of this move.
Keep in mind, this is as much shoulder/lats as it is bicep, maybe more. You can prove this by testing your max curl with weights, proly manage half your bodyweight, the rest comes from lats/shoulders. This is proly where these guys are very strong.
Ayup, some pretty well setup kids.
Gunner, old, slow and about 215lb these days.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1040422...16893109196866
https://picasaweb.google.com/1040422...64097474312370