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skate
Oct 13, 2005, 9:54 PM
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Noticed a posting back on April 21st of 2004 regarding my world record 522 pull ups in one hour, interesting. No I am not a climber and yes I did climb many trees when I was young. Actually I have done a little free boulder climbing, but scared myself good a few times.
In about 2 months I am attempting 600 or about 10 every minute, of course they are strict, full lockout, no swinging, chin above the bar, all that stuff. Sound easy, 10 a minute but very difficult after about 40 minutes. There is a bit of secret to being able to get through an hour.
I will do it for Toys for Tots
Cheers!
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machino
Oct 13, 2005, 10:42 PM
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you should do them on some crimpers, it will help your free boulder climbing.
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md3
Oct 13, 2005, 10:50 PM
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You can't mention a secret without telling us what it is.
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crimpstrength
Oct 13, 2005, 11:30 PM
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sounds like them beer shots things we do all the time
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skate
Oct 13, 2005, 11:44 PM
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It's not so much as a secret really but one of the main reasons an individual may be able to get through an hour of this type of repetitive exercise. Of course you have to have a good deal of muscular endurance, but what most people don't realize is the overall aerobic conditioning that is needed. With quick 30 seconds rests between sets you need to have the ability to recover, to lower your heart rate, to rid your body of some that excess acid. I am a runner, and have been for 22 years competitively, it helps to be able to break 16:00 for a 5k coupled with the muscular endurance needed for an hour of pull ups. I have seen a few people hit the wall when attempting this record and it has to do with their overall aerobic condition, the last set of pull ups is so much harder then the first set, recovery is the key if you want to be able to squeeze more and more reps in. It takes close to 21 seconds to perform 10 correct pull ups, when I first set the record I started with sets of 12, by the end I was doing a few quick sets of 4, with less rest, as I simply could not pull my self up more then about 5 or 6 times after 50 minutes or so.
For 600 I need to get out ahead a bit and be somewhere near 335 after 30 minutes as I will slow down
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philfell
Oct 14, 2005, 12:03 AM
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A 5k in 16 min...... Sorry but that not an aerobic workout.
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maxclimber1w
Oct 14, 2005, 12:36 AM
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are you kidding me phil? Thats 3.1 miles in a little more than 5 minutes a mile. Congrats on that, and on the record. I've never been able to break 18:00 myself.
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hasbeen
Oct 14, 2005, 12:40 AM
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I've got a couple of friends who've done an hour set of at least 9, and maybe 10. I remember when this "record" fell they commented on it. I wrote the story's author and she stated the she was told it was the record but did no other research. This was the marine, right? Anyway, I remember Bob's comment (he's done 60 pull-ups in a row and says he could do 100 a day indefinitely) was something like "522 is pretty burly but certainly not a record."
Our entire group of climbers regularly do hour set of 4 a minute (i usually do 4 pulls, 4 push-ups, 8 crunches). And we do this on rest days when we're climbing a lot.
However, we're all quite certain that none of this matters. Can someone track down Tony Yaniro? We think he did a thousand in a hour from a hand jam position. That used to be the story in Yosemite and, as I recall, was told to me by Dave Altman, who's no slouch at pull-ups. He's done a pinky pull-up with 35lb hanging from his waist for an old Wolfgang Gullich training film. And I saw him do a front lever off of the tiny pinch (quarter size) on the old Metolius Simulator. When we used to do set to failure Altman used to just stop because it messed up our rest time between sets. Either that or he'd do one arms.
Also, as the story goes, Patrick Edlinger has done 1,000 pull-ups in sets of 100. May not be entirely true but that guy had no trouble firing off pull-ups, that is for sure.
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ecjohnson
Oct 14, 2005, 12:42 AM
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Thanks, I am sooooo glad you told us about all this stuff. I can do 4 pullups at a time and am damn proud of it. why did I need to know this?
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rockkid55
Oct 14, 2005, 12:43 AM
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I drank twenty-one shots of tequlia in forty-two minutes for my 21st b-day last year. I woke up with atrophied muscles. Congratulations, me!
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hasbeen
Oct 14, 2005, 12:48 AM
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In reply to: Thanks, I am sooooo glad you told us about all this stuff. I can do 4 pullups at a time and am damn proud of it. why did I need to know this?
Because without heroes there is no inspiration to get better. Then what would you do with your life? Sit around and be complacent. Is that fun? Does it provide meaning? Challenge? Is it of any interest?
With that attitude, why are the Angels playing the White Sox? Why do we hold an Olympics? Why go climbing? Why get up in the morning? Why read a thread about setting a pull-up record?
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skate
Oct 14, 2005, 12:55 AM
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One of the tougher parts of the record is performing them a little stricter then most people. You should encourage one of your friends to officially video tape and apply for the record. The reason it is has to be this way is the same reason why a 100 meter downhill dash at 10,000 altitude is not accepted as a world record over a legitimate seal level track record with wind gauges and an automatic timer. Many folks claim many things, unfortunately they do little to actually prove their feats under strict conditions in front of spectators and officials.
That being said I certainly think it is humanly possible to achieve 800 strict pull ups in an hour, not by me most likely, but someone out there can do it, so please encourage them to try and make it official.
Peace
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Oct 14, 2005, 12:57 AM
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You make good points
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hasbeen
Oct 14, 2005, 1:10 AM
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Skate,
I read your post again and had missed that you are the guy the did it. Congrats! That is great, regardless of whether or not Yaniro/Edlinger did more. And that your beating the record is even better. You might try and track down Jack LaLanne as well. This type of thing was right up his alley. I know he had the record of push-ups, but not sure about pull-ups.
Your training analogy is sound, although the ability to recover could be made up for by someone who does pull-ups so easily as to recruit very low-threshold muscle cell motor units and therefore build little lactic acid. Such was probably the case for Yaniro (although he was very aerobilcally fit then) and certainly Edlinger, who probably weighed a buck twenty, tops. My friends who crank off pull-ups like they're nothing have a bit of both--freakish strength with good aerobic capacity. Both are good runners, though not as fast as you.
I don't think either is in good pull-up shape at the moment or they might be willing to join you and make it a good ol-fashioned competition. That would be pretty cool.
Anyway, train hard. Hit 600. And keep on going!
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raymondjeffrey
Oct 14, 2005, 1:13 AM
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Hey skate,
Best of luck!! By the way: how many can you do continuously, and how many one armed can you do?
Since I am asking you, I will tell you what I am capable of:
I can do 25 stict pull ups in one set when I am totally fresh and suffering no annoying injuries like a sore shouldre or something. I cannot do any one armed pull ups.
I hope you set the new record,
Jeff Raymond
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jeremy11
Oct 14, 2005, 1:14 AM
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:shock: sounds like one of your secrets is being light enough to run a sub 16 minute 5k. my PR is 18:36 and I've done *only* 100 pullups in an hour... certainly inspiration
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hasbeen
Oct 14, 2005, 1:25 AM
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In reply to: I drank twenty-one shots of tequlia in forty-two minutes for my 21st b-day last year. I woke up with atrophied muscles. Congratulations, me!
didn't mean to let this slip through the cracks. it is, indeed, impressive. nice work.
couple that with 500 pull-ups and you've got yourself one hell of a birthay challenge. it should help with all the atrophy, too.
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dutyje
Oct 14, 2005, 1:39 AM
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Hmm.. on rare occassions I like to use my "rest" day to see how many pull-ups I can do over the course of 10 minutes, starting totally fresh. Looking back at the last 6 times I did this (for 60 minutes total), I was able to do the following:
56
55
54
55
53
54
Total: 327
What have we learned from all this? Nothing. We only have more questions.
1. Why am I such a wimp?
2. Why in the world do I know how many pull ups I did over 10 minutes on various days over the past couple months?
3. Does this have anything to do with my being a fat, lazy sub-5.10 leader?
4. Have I even done 600 pull ups over the course of my 31+ year life?
I bet that I'm better than you at something.
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skate
Oct 14, 2005, 1:52 AM
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hasbeen,
Thanks,
Now that would be fun a head to head competition, probably cause an injury, I can just imagine near the end each guy jumping up a half second after the next trying to out do him by one, ouch.
I wish I could post some photos, but the images go to a Yahoo! group
Raymond Jeffery,
I am lucky on a good day to squeeze out 50 non stop.
Yes I trained once to do a one arm pull up, and I was able to do 2 with the right arm and one with the left, that was hard, and the training for it was mostly power type training.
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mowz
Oct 14, 2005, 5:37 PM
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In reply to: sounds like them beer shots things we do all the time
It's called Power Hour; one shot of beer/minute for 60 minutes.
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haiku
Oct 14, 2005, 6:15 PM
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"I'm Hans und I'm Frans and ve vill pump...You up!"
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rjtrials
Oct 14, 2005, 7:39 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: sounds like them beer shots things we do all the time It's called Power Hour; one shot of beer/minute for 60 minutes.
Or the Century Club. A beer shot a minute for 100 minutes.
RJ
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Oct 15, 2005, 2:51 AM
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The late David Willoughby, in the Super Athletes, came to some interesting conclusions. He studied things like this for many years, compiling a great many statistics. He states that the number of two-arm chins (not pull-ups) one can do is equal to 6 times the number of one-arm chins one can do plus 18. Since I once could do about 7 one-arm pull-ups, perhaps equivalent to 9 one-arm chins (they are easier), I should have been able to do about 72 consecutive chins. I never did more than about 25, either chins or pull-ups. During WWI some American soldier is said to have done about 100 consecutive two-arm chins, but I think I've read that the record may be up to 130.
Willoughby has a list of (more or less) authentic physical feats like this (up to about 1970). He compares feats like doing several one-arm chins with additional weight, and simple one-arm chins, along with two-arm chin feats by using mysterious formulae equating all to a single two-arm chin with extra weight, then ranking these athletes. Kind of weird, but entertaining.
He does an impressive analysis of the legendary Lillian Leitzel and her claim of 27 consecutive one-arm chins in 1918, concluding that the most she should have been given credit for was about six. I concur with his analysis.
I'm going to do a new section on my website about these kinds of feats. 8^)
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philfell
Oct 15, 2005, 3:12 AM
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In reply to: are you kidding me phil? Thats 3.1 miles in a little more than 5 minutes a mile. Congrats on that, and on the record. I've never been able to break 18:00 myself.
I never said it wasn't inpressive, but a 16 min exercise isn't really an aerobic workout. I'm sure to get this time the guy was pushing his heart rate close to (or above for part) AT. This isn't an aerobic workout.
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thurgood
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ive never been able to do more than 33 full extension pull ups succseivley, but I have been able to do a complete 1 arm with 35 lbs out weight attached to me.
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