how many pull-ups can you do???
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Two. |
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I ran a 16:43 5K as the first leg of a 5-30-5km duathlon. Probably could've run faster if it was just a race, but who knows. Ran a 1:24 half at what felt like a comfortable pace. Never got to test it on longer distances since my hip always got REAL sore running anything over 10 miles. Running's not something I can take any credit for. Dad was a fast runner and it just always came kind of naturally without working too hard at it. Wish I could say the same for climbing. |
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My parents both ran marathons and I am the product of them I can run forever. I am working on doing a marathon but so far I have only done a half marathon and more 5K's than I can remember in high school cross country. It doesn't help to much with climbing but I can beat all of my buddies on approaches with the heaviest bag. |
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This story can be titled... How not to run a half marathon! |
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Great story, Andy. Ahem...the time? |
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When my dad was still in his late 50s/early 60s, him and some guys at work decided they would all start jogging around the track for lunch hour. Even though my dad was/is about 5'4", 165-170 lb, really round looking, he'd still beat all these younger, much lankier, more athletic looking guys. |
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Shawn Mitchell wrote:Great story, Andy. Ahem...the time?1:25 as I recall. I lost the sprint to the lead woman... broken bones and all. It is an extremely hilly course, hence the slower than normal lead times, and as I recall the lead man came in about 1:18. Large race, about 3000 people usually. I felt pretty proud about my off-the-couch time. But that didn't do much to mitigate the agony of being on crutches for 8 weeks. It's also testimony to the power of adrenaline. My body was so amped up on it that I could run through the pain of broken bones. Bizarre. I miss running, but I blame all my current ailments on my young and dumb days pounding the pavement. |
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Brian Abram wrote:what do you mean "a pullup on a vertical surface like a 2x4?" If you mean by pinching the bottom and pulling up, then I've got a photo of a front lever being done on a pinch (not by me) and that would be much, much harder. I'd say many strong climbers can do simply a pullup on a pinch like that.Don't do that if you value your health. There was a day and age where I worked in a ralroad yard, jacking up road-to-rail cars (yes, train cars) by hand. My forearms were as big as my neck and I could lock off on anything. I decided I could also do that, having seen it in a picture. Turns out, I could... and I could hold it, and do a pull-up from it too... but moving under that sort of thension produces some very strange forces in the wrist. For the Boulderites, Denverites and other people who either go to the local beer outings or can find me in Eldo once my knee is better, ask me to show you my trick wrist with the "bow-stringed" tendons. That is how I got them. |
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John Langston wrote: I've only barely broken 18 on a 5k, kinda slow there.That's a pretty good time at this elevation. Or at least its as good as I can do, and I'm a 5 minute miler. John Langston wrote:Some people are just fast runners. I haven't had a VO2 max lower than 70 since I was 15, yet somehow, I never got FAST.V02max isn't the key to 5K's. Pace, speed, cardio and a willingness to suffer are. You have to go out and run a really fast mile, then one a slightly faster one, then hold the pace until the last few hundred yards after the 3 miles are up, then sprint to the finish. |
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Feel for you Andy- |
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Since the thread has now deviated out away from pull-ups and into running and cardio, I can bring up the Grouse Grind. Here in North Vancouver, the mountains head up from sea level very steeply. There's a trail on Grouse Mountain, originally created by some mountaineers for training, called the Grouse Grind, or simply The 'Grind (sorry Mr. Pet-Peeve). |
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I climb, but never do pull-ups. At the Boulder Theatre last year at a climbing film, they had a pull-up contest set up in the entrance area. Myself and another female BRC climber decided to give it a try. I completed 15 pull-ups. I was OK with that when I saw that the final 3 female contestants were at least 20 years my junior!...Hum, I wonder how much harder you could climb if you did pull-ups regularly. |
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phil wortmann wrote: E to the Dub is lying. He is a closet Mark Twight. He doesn't have a pullout bar at his house because he does his pullups on door frame crimpers with cement bags in his pack. That, and he's a mutant.Whatever. You and Alstrin still kick my butt on the incline. |
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JLP wrote:I think the #1 "athletic metric" for climbing is how much you weigh, ie, if you have a light, perhaps lanky frame.The kids who climb at The Spot come to mind... if only we all had that strength/mass ratio! |
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I remember reading somewhere that Ines Papert did 100 "real" pull ups consecutively and was pondering how much of a badass she must be. Was wondering if anyone else knew this. Also I can do about 25 pullups and at 5'4" weigh about 110lbs. But I can maybe climb 5.11 on a good day. |
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Kateri Aren't wrote: The kids who climb at The Spot come to mind... if only we all had that strength/mass ratio!You of all people should complain? You're not that far off. |
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JLP wrote:http://www.trainingforclimbing.com/new/research/grant1996.shtml "pull-ups (elite 16.2 +/- 7.2 repetitions; recreational 3.0 +/- 4.0 reps; non-climbers 3.0 +/- 3.9 reps); " Horst has these strength surveys in his books, which have been around for some time. Not sure if the results are online, or what kind of participation he gets. Maybe someone here has seen them.For the sake of science, note that in this study "elite" is defined as 'having lead E1', which apparently equates to 5.9. |
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you mean people can actually lead 5.9's. Wow props to those guys. I'm still training to rap-el one of them dang things. |
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I apologize for the thread steal there, but I just find it interesting how it seems the more experienced (older) generation can still run quite decently, and climb decently, but not necessarily do a whole bunch of pull-ups. |
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having seen Dave Graham climb...it is pretty impossible to believe he can't do a one armed pullup. |