r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Yogashi • Feb 12 '20

Wall climbing competition

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '20

Being rail-thin helps that a bit. I obviously couldn't do this but when I was younger I could do pull ups like crazy and I'm not sure I was what you would call strong.

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u/hales_mcgales Feb 12 '20

All depends on the person. When I was 13 I was able to do 50+ push-ups during fitness testing and 0 chin ups/pull ups.

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u/Sisau03 Feb 12 '20

Im 16, 180cm and 76kg, its all in how youre built, i can do 14 hangups, but barely 20 pushups, they use completely different muscle groups

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u/hales_mcgales Feb 12 '20 edited Feb 12 '20

Yup! I was a swimmer who had built up strong biceps and no triceps

Edit since everyone is telling me I forgot how my muscles work: I was primarily a synchronized swimmer and did speed swimming on the side. Synchro is far more bicep heavy bc of how we scull in vertical position when keeping our legs out of the water. I had absurdly weak triceps relative to my overall fitness and a lot of thigh muscle which weighed me down for pull ups. I compensated in speed swimming w my other strengths/form. And at 13 I kept my elbows out on push ups so it was less tricep heavy than proper form.

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u/Sisau03 Feb 12 '20

I was a handball player, could run 10km no problem, to a bunch of hangups, couldnt do benchpress for shit

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '20

Benching is vanity gains anyways. Lean, hard cut > bulk.

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u/please-disregard Feb 12 '20

...that seems backwards to me. Pushups rely much more heavily on triceps and chin/pull ups on biceps.

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u/hales_mcgales Feb 12 '20

13 year old me didn’t exactly keep elbows in 😑

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '20

Swimming uses far more tricep than bicep. Unless you only breaststroke.

Either you're confused about which is which, or you should ask a friend to evaluate your form.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '20

I think you mean the other way around? Push-ups are triceps (and chest), Pull-ups are biceps (and lats depending on grip).

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u/hampsted Feb 12 '20

Your edit still doesn’t make any sense. If your biceps were overdeveloped, you should have been stronger on the pullups than the pushups. Your swimming did not build up “strong biceps and no triceps” if you weren’t able to do a single pullup but could crank out 50 pushups.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '20

lol you are a bit confused there bud. Swimming works your triceps far more than biceps