How many pull ups can you do or aim to do?

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1. Maybe 2.

2. Don’t compare you’re self to others, just try to make future you better than past you.

   If you can do 0 today, aim for 1. If you can do 1 today, aim for 2. If you can do 10 today, aim for 11.

   if you want to use pull-ups to compare to fitness level, you need to define fitness. It’s one way to measure strength to weight ratio, I guess. But depending on what a person is training for their pull-ups may be good or bad. That doesn’t mean their fitness is bad… fit for what? That’s the question.

3. Three…maybe.

4. I haven’t been in my program since before COVID with pullups. I tried to knock off a few last month and I think I got to 4 or 5, I have gained some weight and wasn’t going to go all out effort. Unless its something you have been doing for a while, don’t bother with an all out effort test.

   If you want an easy pull up program. Get yourself a pullup bar in a place that you have regular access to, like in your office, home, garage, or wherever you spend your time. Periodically through out the day, do one or two, then go back to whatever it is you were doing while you recover. Give yourself a minimum of 20 minutes before trying another 1 or 2. But then throughout the day, do 1 or 2, over and over again. After a few months you will be surprised with how many you can kick out.

5. Only ones that count are wide grip, overhand, chest touches bar. None of this 2 hands close together underhand bullshit.

6. A few years ago I used to box and would do 40 pulls up (in one go) and 150 push ups. It was a piece of cake but I can no longer do that

7. Oh man… Honestly, at this point, if I could do just one I’d be hella impressed with myself. It isnt something I’ve done since those stupid fitness tests in high school.

8. Three sets of 8 body weight, or three sets of 5 weighted with 25 lbs.

   37 yrs old. 190 lbs. I did the 3×8 last week, and the weighted ones a few days prior. Aiming for 3×5 with 27.5 lbs on me next 🙂

9. I can do a bunch but used to rock climb frequently so that’s a specific area I trained and so I have a lot of that residual strength left over. This is not a brag though bc it really was just specific strength. Also developed pretty bad tennis elbow bc of being so imbalanced. Could do more pull-ups than push-ups at one time. I’m guessing I could still do 20ish in one set max.

10. I can do 3 sets of 7.

11. I can usually do 20+ my first set, but usually like 4 sets of 15… worked up years to this @ around 210 it wasn’t easy

12. 3 x 8-10 to finish out back and bicep day…

    On my birthday I did 39, next year 40, but broken down into 10 sets of 4. Also going for 400 push ups that day in 10 sets.

    Maybe not for everyone, but I couldn’t do 1 pull up or 10 pushups 2 years ago. Now being able to move my body motivates me!

13. None, last time I checked. That was 1994.

14. I do pull ups about 3 days a week, I aim for 15 and that’s where I stop

15. About 12 when I try it, but that’s only one fitness factor to consider.

16. sets of 5.

    If you wanna correlate it with fitness level, then check out a chart like this: https://strengthlevel.com/strength-standards/pull-ups/lb . Goal numbers will naturally change with your age and weight.

17. You could teach yourself to do 50 pull ups, and if you ignore everything else, you’re just good at Pull Ups, not ‘fit’.

    IMO the test in the military is used to see how far you can dig when already fatigued. Its not a neccesary fitness-level indicator but you should be able to drag yourself over obstacles if the **** hits the fan.

    Im 260 Lbs and can manage about 8-12, strict, but I definitely do not consider myself ‘fit’. I do them because they are an excellent accesory to develop lats.

18. I can do 12 now. Took me a long time to get from 8 or 9.

19. I’m slightly overweight and don’t do strength training anymore, but I can pump out 4 or 5.

    In my early 30s, I was about at the same level, but then got on a pull-up kick. I was just doing them every day. Within a month I could do 17. The human body is pretty amazing. Though at the time I wouldn’t have considered myself fit.

20. I was doing 3 sets of like 11,10,7 when I had them in my routine. I bet today I could do 6. Getting to high reps of pull ups require consistency and probably also genetics.

21. I can do 17-18 at once body weight.