On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:18:41 -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.
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.
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.
How many of those guys insist they've ridden a motorcycle at 264 mph,
and claim to have driven more than 900 miles every day for 30 years?
10,000,000 miles. gummer is close to 62. Let's say that in keeping
with all of his other extravagant lies, gummer began driving at age 12,
so 50 years of driving - too much time, given that gummer told his ten
million lie a few years ago and he didn't start driving as 12. Anyway,
that's 200,000 per year, every year. 20K-25K per year is what someone
with an exceptionally long commute might drive, or perhaps someone who
drives a large sales territory.
gummer lives in Taft and says he used to do a lot of work in Long Beach,
which is 142 miles distant. If gummer had made the round trip *twice*
per day every day of the year for the last 42 years (since age 20), that
would still amount only to 8.7 million miles.
These aren't tall tales gummer is telling. It's an unbroken string of
pathological lying.
Harold, no offense, but get a life. Don't be a dicklessKidding.
Actually..."Harold" is correct. I gave an off the cuff statement that
was on being shown to being incorrect..I fully admitted it to being
incorrect. And revised it down to about 3 million as best as I can
recall. I drove truck for a few years, did the service man thingy for
about 30, took weekend motorcycle rides to places like Texas from
California and back (3 day weekends) and whatnot. Up until 2 yrs
ago..I was averaging about 65k miles a year just for work. Which is
why I have trucks littering the back yard with 440,000 miles or more
on them. Id buy em with around 90-99k on the clock..run em until the
engine went, stick another engine in them..run em some more...another
engine..then retire em. And then pick up another truck..and off we go
again. When the bottom fell out of the economy here in California...I
didnt drive as many miles on the job..but had more time to go visit
parks and lakes and nearby states and friends.
Being a traveling service tech in some industries..means you dont just
drive down the block..but into the next state.....and out here in the
West..they aint all that small..... make a service call to Ryobi in
Phoenix from Bakersfield..about 500 miles one way. Out one day..make
the service call, catch some zs in the parking lot, fuel up, check the
oil and turn right around and head back. Be gone for about 24 hours
max. Leave at 10pm, hit the job at 8am, be back home at 10pm, and
thats just piddling around, dragging your feed. 1000 miles in less
than 24 hrs, plus a couple hour service call. No biggie. Hell..I did
300 miles today and visited 4 clients, and 5 second hand stores. And a
boat shop in Long Beach. Started off at 7am in Costa Mesa, was in my
living room at 8pm, sorting out my dirty laundry. Short week, I left
Tuesday morning, did 600 miles, was home tonight. Its a great way to
ease out of the Go! mindset and settle the old bones back into my high
backed swivel office chair. Monday Ill be driving halfway to
Sacramento, meeting a friend and dropping off some tools, then turn
around and come home..then the next morning..loading up and heading
for San Diego...shrug
It aint no big thang...but for someone stuck in Section 8
housing..might seem "impossible!"
Try it for 30 yrs..its not impossible..just a ****ing pain in the ass.
Gunner