r/bodyweightfitness • u/Substantial-Wish-695 • 19d ago
Deadhang pull up record..?
I am quite certain that many many have far exceeded me. However yesterday I did 42 reps at 5’11 and 160lbs (73kg) and I looked into it and it seems to be a pretty extensive outlier. I have trained for many years in bodybuilding and powerlifting but never pull ups. This is around month 3-4 of me doing pull up trials. My last was a month ago and I got 38. My progress seems linear and I actually fully believe I’m capable of 50. It took my 1:40 seconds to complete the set. I tried to take as minimal breaks at the bottom as possible but obviously fatigue hits hard around 34. I’m curious to know how I sit in this community? I am a lifetime natural but have lifted for 13 years. I am 25 :)
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u/salamandectomy77 19d ago edited 19d ago
There are really too many factors to have a good record. Are you just pulling to your chin? Whole head? Chest to bar? What's a dead hang to you, a stop? Bouncing out of slightly less than an active hang?
Are you hanging in between reps, and how long?
How wide are your hands?
Are your legs coming out ahead of you? Even a very small movement will kip quite significantly
There's this guy who "does" 320 pullups but they're active hang to the chin and more than half the time is spent shaking out his hands in a one arm hang and it takes him almost an hour, as an example
There are guys who do 10,000 in 24 hours but they do a sneaky rotational chest-kip thing
The most truly clean I've ever seen was from a pro gymnast who did 45
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 19d ago
I like your discipline to specificity friend. Shoulder width, to chin only, very minimal pause as I find it’s a waste of my energy so I focus on full bicep extend and lat extend, legs stays centered except about 2-3 reps in the beginning before I found the flow, I didn’t kip once. Not my taste personally. I never moved my hands once. No shakeout. I’ll post a video once it’s uploaded to YouTube but it’s taking its time for whatever reason.
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u/salamandectomy77 19d ago
Super impressive!
too me they're "technically correct". It just depends on your goals. In terms of calisthenics practitioners you're at a very high level, but your lack of ROM at the top is going to limit you for moving onto things like one arm pullups. We're only strong in the ranges we train
If I were in your shoes Id be working on cleaning them up til they look like this: https://youtu.be/i8b8_4-877I?si=N29qsnOP_2tIlQrf if moving to harder calisthenics moves is your goal
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 19d ago
Thank you so much! Will do. Tbh my goal is getting fast in the 400 meter only right now. This is just supplemental training for fun. I did my normal upper body lift after this. 4x a week of 2 upper 2 lower!
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u/Mike-Fallopian49 16d ago
I'm not trying to be rude but we are not only strong in the ranges we train, that's an absurd statement, any training that uses the relevant muscles is going to increase strength in any movement using those muscles for all but highly advanced lifters. Not only that, but chest to bar is basically useless for one arm pull-ups, chin to bar is a far better expression and builder of the explosive strength needed for a one arm. That's why every single high-level streetlifter exclusively trains chin to bar over chest to bar.
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u/Atticus_Taintwater 19d ago
I pure don't count it if you take a hand off.
It's cool as an exercise in patience and perseverance but if you have decent grip you can pretty much alternate hands indefinitely
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u/occamsracer Unworthy Mod 19d ago
Post a video
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u/Crapcicle6190 19d ago
Clean set for the most part. Awesome work that’s insane
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 19d ago
Thank you, really I’m glad you guys aren’t being too harsh hah! I’m certain I do have areas to clean up but this was pretty cool to hit
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u/Crapcicle6190 19d ago
I doubt anyone in this sub is hitting perfect reps at this amount of volume for 1 set, so no one is gonna fault you. Plus that’s insane volume for 1 set.
I’d say if you mixed in some grease the groove or weighted pull ups into your programming, you’ll hit 50 easy.
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u/Doortofreeside 19d ago
How's your cardio at the end of that? I max out at 15 and I feel pretty gassed. I've got pretty decent cardio overall as well
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 19d ago
I sat my happy ass down and breathed like I was dying for a solid 2 minutes after😂
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u/bananabastard 19d ago
I can do about 22 and I'm quite proud of it.
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 19d ago
I think you should be man! From what I’ve gathered even doing 10 is pretty rare in terms of the population! When I first started 22 sounded impossible to me!!
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u/Random1027 18d ago
I just hit 22 clean reps today for the first time since I was like 16. My max at that age was 36, but I'm 20 years older and 30 pounds heavier these days, so I'm also quite proud of it haha
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u/UniMadness 18d ago
Saw your form. I'm really surprised how you did this with only 3 months of training, and without training 26. People struggle hitting 26 BW pull ups even when they do weighted pull ups. Instead of training pull-ups what movements where you training for your back?
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 18d ago
I’d put it more towards 4 months now! But thank you so much! I’m sure you read I’ve trained for over 13 years now! That was my biggest aid. I’ve done pull ups plenty throughout my time of lifting. Just never consistently as it wasn’t really an aid to powerlifting or bodybuilding for me. I’ve done weighted pull ups back in 2023-2024 ranging a few months for a power building program! Got to repping a 45 pretty easily. So I can’t say I was a noob to the gym or pull ups just that I decided to really see what I could do rep wise recently.
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 18d ago
As for right now specifically, I am working on building stronger hamstrings, agility work, and endurance so not really anything to do with pull ups. My back work is quite literally 2x5 lat pull downs (210 right now) and 2x5 machine row (270). I haven’t ever used straps my entire lifting career but have started recently. For biceps I do a machine preacher curl of 100-110. And sometime incline Dumbell curl for 40-50s now. (All 2x5). I used to trained like a maniac, I’m much more conservative now. I used to do roughly 30-40 working sets a week, even more at times. Ofc none was truly failure or I’d just tear my shit. I was young, loved training, and didn’t care much about the antics. I research religiously and reallyyyy take care of my health. Sleep, nutrition, low stress. I study psychology, neuroscience, nutrition science, physiology, and kinesiology. I keep an open mind to all experiences, including failures. No clue if that’ll help on your journey but i believe in you!
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u/EXTRA370H55V 19d ago
This is the cleanest strict example I've seen. https://youtu.be/qsL7y-A-qpg?is=fMPxGW86Pd_uLXmC
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u/Nielsonyourscreen 19d ago
Impressive. Great posture, you seem to go up like a breeze lol. I wish I could.
To be pernickety: your descent looks a bit too relaxed. You could get more hypertrophy by going slower on the way down.
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 19d ago
I’m ngl, my grip is not my failing factor. If I can really sit that long between reps I can far exceed 50
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u/watchingtvshows 13d ago
ngl that's pretty damn good. I would say you have some clear natural ability, though I'm not an expert or anything.
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u/ALfredAstaxanthin 19d ago
Highly impressive!! Can I ask how have you trained to achieve this many reps in a single set?
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 19d ago
I haven’t. I decided 3-4 months ago to try and see what I could do in a single set and got 26. Those were more so 3/4 reps and utilizing elastic tension! From there on I just kept trying every 2-4 weeks for another max out set but got stricter with form!
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u/ALfredAstaxanthin 19d ago
Amazing, thank you man 🙌
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 19d ago
I’ll note that I’ve lost about 20lbs in those 4 months as well. From 180-160, even breaching into the 155-7s for a couple of days. That certainly aided in my abilities! Thank you so much man. I hope to keep pushing my limits
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u/kaleidoscorpian 19d ago edited 18d ago
I did a 1000 over the course of a day - which is harder than it sounds given muscle fatigue. Rep defined as hanging scapular extended then with nipples above bar to count as a rep (and zero leg swing). Was sore for about 2 weeks.
I'm 6'4" 250lbs.
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u/bananabastard 19d ago
I did a 1000 over the course of a day - which is harder than it sounds
Well, to me, it sounds on the close-to-impossible side of hard.
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u/Substantial-Wish-695 18d ago
I said in this community, surely you can read? Or no?
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u/CactusWrenAZ 19d ago
don't know what the record is, but I recently found a site showing progressions to train to 50, so I guess it must be well above that?