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 Survey Hypothesis Weight and Pull Ups
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Pro Bodybuilder 
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How many pullups can you do with your palms facing away from you(ya know the hard ones) in one set(no spotter either)? And how much do you weigh? My hypothesis is light dudes can do more even though the bigger dudes should have equivalent back muscle for their size. Why I don't know?    | ||
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Olympian 
Posts: 1632 |
damn i dont know how many i can do but its a lot.......i put weights on when i do them... ------------------  | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder 
Posts: 157 |
I'm 160 and can do 14 without stopping or cheating. Any more than that, I would have to cheat. -- | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 481 |
I weight around 240. I do chins once a week using a 45 lb. plate hanging from a chain belt. I do 4 sets of 10, sometimes I can get 11 or 12 reps on the first few sets... | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 69 |
Curling, you're right. Smaller people have a better strength-to-weight ration than larger people, even when the muscles are proportionately as the same size. The reason is that strength and size/weight don't scale equivalently. Strength depends on the square of a value (since it depends on the cross-sectional area of a muscle, and the area of a circle involves the square of the radius). Weight and size, however, depend on the cube of a value. (Length cubed for a cube, radius cubed for a sphere, etc.) So when you scale up from a 150 pound guy to a 200 pound guy, with muscles proportionately the same, the weight is going to increase more than the strength. (Because, obviously, x to the 3rd power increases much more rapidly than x to the second power). Hope this helps. H |
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posted April 17, 2001 03:11 PM