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I must check into this. Thanks

When I was in the Marines stationed in AK, our parachute rigger had a finger holds mounted above his office door. Rule was you had to do atleast 1 pull up by finger tips to enter.....I emailed or called him. He was a mtn/ rock climber.

Used to be good at pull ups and when the Marine Corps allowed kipping, I could do them for a while.

Now....no thanks.

A guy who used to work in Dynamic health club, Rick, an Air Force guy would see me curling 135lbs. on a straight bar at the sqaut rack. He'd hustle over grab onto the bar push it down onto the safety crossbars that caught the bar if someone could make the squat. And school me on how dangerous curling that much weight was. He had seen a guy doing exactly what I was doing and completely tore one of his biceps . Horrible sight according to him and a long road to recovery.
To add more to my BS, in my 30's I could do 3 single arm rows with 180lbs.,, 150lbs. when I was early 50's, although the third wasn't pretty. Might have been a factor in the tendonitis, 130's were a good balance for me.

I've been accused of being on steroids and never-ever once did I ever use them.
Lads that worked with me would laugh that I could pick up a 32' extension ladder curl it and press it over my head with one arm < with ease.

I'm 50 and can crank out an honest 25 at any given time. Last year I did 5435 of them along with 21,570 pushups. A normal gym workout includes three sets of 20 pull-ups. The third set I sometimes I have to break into a 15 and 5. I've broken 30 and think that PR won't be beat anymore. It's harder each day to do 25.

Dang that is impressive. I need to work harder.

Either that or get younger.

Me, I'm like the old grey mare.

I don’t weigh a lot. I do chin ups, pull ups, and dips. I use to lift heavy but don’t anymore. Nevertheless being light and strong still. Dips I can strap a 45lb on a leather belt chain.

Pardon me for saying so, but that picture flatters you!
Not sure what you mean by mounting them. TMI, perhaps?

I did pull-ups up until a couple years ago when one of my shoulders said ENOUGH! I had been doing 100 per day since my 20s, and had to switch to chin-ups. I'm now 61.

Back in my USMC heyday, I could knock out 3 sets of 20 pull-ups, no problem.

Nowadays, I'm doing 60 chin-ups every morning to start the day, and warm up for the rest of my morning workout. Some days I'll push it to 70 or 80, but max set is 10 reps.

I believe it. I used to curl like that when I was lifting. I was skinny too. Less than 145.

I had the Jr High record for pullups for 1 day. I did 36 without any prior training. Some nig athlete took the pullup test in the next day's gym class and did 37.

Now I'm old and my shoulders are shot, so I don't do pullups.

I looked up world record curl guy did 255lbs. w/a angled curl bar. Dumbells ? didn't see any records only some ole goof ''wrist curling' 256lbs. ?

A real test would be using a preachers bench with no butt off the seat , no swinging, strict hand on dumbell and curl it.
The Arm-Blaster doodad that goes across your chest isolates the arms well.

Maybe rcamuglia is a small guy who uses the little aerob-a-cise dumbells - the purple & pink ones with the foam grip. lol

Nice fantasies

Post a video of you curling 70 pound dumbbells for reps with good form. It’ll be interesting


I was curling 135 on an Olympic bar 30 years ago. I’m doing seated dumbbell curls now with 40’s for 10 with good form.

We all know there’s a few factors here; form and cheating. Oh, and if you’re on gear

Are you claiming 70 is your workout weight for reps with decent form?

Most probably can't do as many as you might think. Climbing is largely upper back, forearms, hands and unless a guy is speed climbing there is a good bit of recovery time between "reps". A trained up climber can raise himself up with one hand, or hang from a finger or two for a while but that is a bit different from banging out one rep after another on a chin bar with form that uses mostly lats and biceps.

We also train more of a chest up than a chin up. Getting your chin above a hold or some other rock problem doesn't help much, to get over it you have to get your chest above it.

Maybe you missed this or commented without reading.

[quote=ol_mike]Several years ago I worked up to 18 straight hang pull-ups ,, no kip/kipping [swinging], age 50+. I didn't do any for 10-12 days preparing to do 20 then >.

""""" Injured in a fall, compound fractured right arm, 11 broken ribs, collar bone, back broke L1/t12, ++.
Can't do a single pull up now."""""

I have titanium rods holding my right arm together, nerve damage that causes big hand tremors and can only turn my palm upward to 'shaking hand' position. Can't use normal rifle stocks anymore, thumbholes/pistol grip now.
1 foot long surgery scar.
Worked up to 45lbs. dumbells, wrist crackling and snapping, pretty painful and stays constantly sore when doing it.

Amazing at the level of knowledge you have gleaned about someone by reading an internet post. lol

Sorry to hear it. Sucks

I work out at a gym full of powerlifting steroids users. Some hold powerlifting records. Many compete.

I’ve never seen anyone curling 70’s for reps

Maybe the fall effected your memory?

Hahaha! Sounds like a good gym! Never took steroids, but a lot of my powerlifting friends did.

It is. 60,000 square feet.

One of my friends power lifted and completed 30 years ago. Never cycled. He had super-human strength, literally

At 165 pounds, he had a 650 pound squat and deadlift