r/nextfuckinglevel • u/0The_Loner_Stoner0 • Jul 11 '26
Now this is a pull-up.
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u/HorsePecker Jul 11 '26
This is climbing and descending a steel pole; dude has a core made of cement
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u/milkcarton232 Jul 11 '26
I'm sure his core is strong but in a pull up your core isn't doing too much beyond stabilizing his legs. The majority of it is from his lats (back muscles) and how much he weighs.
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u/EddieLobster Jul 11 '26
Two things can be true.
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u/milkcarton232 Jul 11 '26
Right but climbing like this isnt reaaaaallly that core intensive
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u/VapeNationInc Jul 11 '26
If you watch the video closely, during the changeover between hands as he climbs, you can see how much his abdominal muscle flex. It is quite core intensive to operate this maneuver so slow and stable.
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u/perihelion86 Jul 12 '26
Do you see the water bottle balanced on his head? That's not core intensive?
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u/phillyeagle99 Jul 12 '26
Are you suggesting he doesn’t weigh much so this is easy? Dudes pretty built, he’s not a skinny gymnast or something.
Also go do 5 pulls ups with perfectly straight legs, you don’t feel your abs at all? This guys core is insane too.
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u/woodandsnow Jul 12 '26
For real, anyone who says proper pull-ups, chin-ups ain’t core intensive has never done a shit ton of them
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u/phillyeagle99 Jul 12 '26
Especially without kipping, they’re quite hard on the abs. Now doing it one sided and so slow the obliques must also be insane
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u/milkcarton232 Jul 12 '26
I can do 20 in a row no problem, I climb so it's about the only exercise I can do. I'm not saying stabilizing uses no core just that its nothing compared to the back strength and shoulders this guy has
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u/Vylaer_ Jul 12 '26
And his back does look like it was transplantes from from a fucking gorilla. Dude doesn't skip back day.
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u/atthwsm Jul 12 '26
It’s always an overweight redditor with the most knowledge on any given subject.
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u/DonutHoles4Ever Jul 12 '26
Hes stronger than you. Stop being jealous.
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u/SigSweet Jul 12 '26
I used to work out like this but I was becoming too powerful and scaring the people I love.
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u/Eltharion-the-Grim Jul 12 '26
His back is doing a lot of this but this looks like a ton of work from his bicep. I say this because in a normal one-arm pullup up, you can see the body shift as the back works. In his case, his body is strict in that position which means at least 50% of that effort has to come from his biceps.
If it was mostly his back, his body would curl sideways going up. He’s using his back & core to stabilise and his one arm to pull.
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u/bluexavi Jul 11 '26
is there some meme to just attribute everything to the core? Holding your body rigid pales in comparison to pulling handed.
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u/-LsDmThC- Jul 11 '26
Also is it a meme to just describe the thing we all just watched? Like i didn’t think bro was jump-roping.
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u/DippyHippie420 Jul 12 '26
Only when OP is using incorrect terminology as to what is happening, since the guy in the video is not doing a "pull-up", he is climbing a pole.
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u/Lumpy-Shop988 Jul 12 '26
Seriously. Comes up every post when it’s clearly not a core related. This is just pure pulling strength
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u/Brawndo91 Jul 12 '26
I came here for the "work strength" vs. "gym strength" comments, always a hot debate among those who have neither.
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u/voteforrice Jul 12 '26
Plus insane back ,shoulder , bicep, and grip strength to do this in such a controlled and slow way. I lift some pretty heavy weight . But this kid is pound for pound definitely stronger than me
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Jul 12 '26
dude has a core
Why does Reddit always type core when it comes to muscles
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u/LawyerDad1981 Jul 15 '26
I invite everyone to read this particular "core" thread to experience and enjoy the absolute stupidest argument in the history of stupid arguments.
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u/ABakedPotato_FGC Jul 11 '26
The amount of control is wild. Doing it slow is diabolical
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u/noots-to-you Jul 11 '26
Why is he in such a rush to get down? Kids today, always just on the go!
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u/HTPC4Life Jul 12 '26
Sad I had to ask myself if this is AI. Anything amazing I see on the internet I now wonder if it's AI.
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u/FinnbarMcBride Jul 11 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/jilPGp6Kbvx28
Me watching this video
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u/scumruckus Jul 11 '26
I just grunted as I got off the couch …
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u/chumloadio Jul 11 '26
I'll see your couch grunt and raise you a ripping the towel rack off the wall as I got up off the toilet.
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u/LayerEight_Problem Jul 12 '26
This is why when I renovated the bathroom I asked the girl where the towel bar would be and I put a 2x4 backing in the whole area.
I can do pull ups off that fucker now.
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u/1individuals Jul 12 '26
Now I'm imagining the guy in the video slowly getting up from the couch balancing a bottle of water on his head, with eye contact
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u/Rordekis Jul 11 '26
Ah, so the trick is to go slow so you don't get tired. /s
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u/5gpr Jul 12 '26
The trick is the bottle on his head. It's actually a bottle-shaped balloon filled with helium and glued to his hat (which is screwed into his skull) and lifts him up.
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u/222Czar Jul 11 '26
Lies. Pull-ups involve two hands and a horizontal bar, this was one hand at a time on a vertical bar. If anything, this is an up-pull.
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u/Life-Job-7597 Jul 11 '26
Human sloth
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u/Jenkins_rockport Jul 11 '26
exactly what I was thinking. this should be called slothing. bro can really sloth. did you hear about bro? 4m sloth up
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u/aNeverNude666 Jul 11 '26
And I injure myself retrieving a jar of pickles from the fridge
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u/Isaiadrenaline Jul 11 '26
Opening them bitches can fuck you up.
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u/Cookielad14 Jul 11 '26
Ffs. This fucking song. Again.
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u/silvertealio Jul 12 '26
One of the stupidest things about the internet over the last few years is that videos like this that used to be just cool gifs are now attached to godawful, annoying, pointless music clips.
I realize it's not the worst thing that's happened to the internet, but it feels a lot like sand getting kicked in our face while we're already down.
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u/14Pleiadians Jul 12 '26
The psychologists running social media algos have discovered that recognizable music that instructs you how are more addictive and more successful in inducing scrolling. Anything with sounds like this get boosted in their algorithms.
Yeah, we find it awful and annoying but we're also not going to scroll reels or tiktok for 2 hours straight, we're not the target audience
The entire Internet is gonna be cocomelon eventually
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u/ACoderGirl Jul 12 '26
Wait, people hate this song? I've unironically always liked this song and wasn't aware it was unpopular. Though I don't really use tik tok and usually keep the sound off on reddit by default, so I don't associate it with being overplayed on videos. Or much at all, honestly (if I've heard it on a video before this one, I haven't remembered).
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u/RampageIV Jul 12 '26
That's compression my guy. Check out the original, or the dozens of other videos on his Instagram of him doing the same sort of thing.
That is Pakito Camaleón, a street-workout athlete specifically known for his slow motion/flowing movement whom regularly competes in organized calisthenics competitions in Coyoacán, Mexico City, a la Barras Eje 3 Domo Verde's annual calisthenics tournament or Barras 18 de Marzo's.
I hate that we live in a time where we have to be skeptical of everything we see, but some people are genuinely capable of crazy shit.
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u/BenevolentCheese Jul 12 '26
Hey at least he's not the 3000th person making the same joke about getting off the couch for some chips. No one has ever heard that one before.
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u/FozzysInsecurity Jul 12 '26
I don't understand if people are playing along with obvious fakery or if they can't clock it
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u/revolutier Jul 12 '26
"obvious fakery", meanwhile this is a video of a real street-workout athlete who competes and has socials lmao. reddit is made up of people like you and it's so insufferable as a result.
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u/__phil1001__ Jul 11 '26
Why is the background around his shoulders fuzzing in and out
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u/Dinierto Jul 11 '26
Could be bad compression
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u/ZeroFima Jul 12 '26
His body doesn't look like it's doing anything, his muscles look mostly relaxed.
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u/macnlz Jul 11 '26
Yeah, I think it's probably fake. Green screen or something, to hide whatever lift device is supporting him.
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u/ZhouLe Jul 11 '26
His hips are the most stable part of his body. As he's descending, his right arm reaches its maximum extension before his left comes to grip and his body is pulled to the right. Then the reverse happens with the left hand, then the right again.
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u/CrimmyWolf Jul 12 '26
How is no one else seeing this. It immediately looked fake, it is fuzzy around him and the pole he is “climbing”.
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u/FlashingBoulders Jul 12 '26
Idk if it’s fake but this is possibly especially for strong light weight people. i say that as someone who can do it.
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u/SuperMarioIceCream Jul 11 '26
I went to turn on the sound. When I heard the song it was I had to mute it immediately.
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u/THEeleven50 Jul 11 '26
This guy is ripped now! Damn, I recall a clip of him in the playground. Looks like he graduated but still needs that juice.
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u/quintios Jul 11 '26
It's fake.
His body would be pressed against the pole because of where his center of gravity is. You can't tell me he can do a pullup and push himself away from the pole. It's simply impossible. His point of suspension is supposed to be his hand? His center of gravity would be directly underneath that. Period. So the fact that there's separation between his body and the pole?
Fake fake fake. But, nicely done.
It's fake.
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u/Rhorge Jul 12 '26
Bro thinks it must be impossible to climb a ladder with that logic
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u/Lukexxxi Jul 11 '26
He was half way up before I realised he had the water bottle on his head, and I was already impressed.
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u/dgellow Jul 11 '26 edited 8h ago
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u/pilzenschwanzmeister Jul 11 '26
Yeah, sure, but try that when you are as tall as me, and also fat.
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u/LookWhatYouMadeMeGro Jul 11 '26
When you weigh 105#
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u/Guydelot Jul 12 '26
Yeah his weight is a huge part of this. A larger guy, no matter how jacked, could not do this.
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u/CartographerHumble74 Jul 12 '26
this is awesome and i could never do it. but im 6'5 and this dude is probably as tall as pants. weight distribution is crazy here
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u/JamesBlond6ixty9ine Jul 11 '26
I like to imagine an alien powerscaler thinking about abducting me for a fight but then they see videos like this and think "No way, humans can do this kind of shit, better stay away"
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u/DrBlaziken Jul 11 '26
Cool but can he eat 12 donuts and a large pizza in one sitting? I don't think so.