If you can't do 12 unassisted pull up's with proper form

[enle04]

I don't even lift

[RegParkWasNatty]

I don't even lift

You could at least do some exercise.

[SomeRandomName]

No excuse I'm 234lbs and I can do 12 easy. I usually do 4 sets of 8 as a warmup on my back days..

This thread is now about this guy's avatar. wtfmansloth.jpg

[d0wnfall]

inb4 180lb+ miscers say it's because they weigh a lot making it hard to do pull ups

guarantee you couldn't do 3 pull ups if I put a 45 plate on you.

*******. not everyone can be 150

[_Marcus_]

i can get 4 sets of 12 wide grip pullups... usually try to get 100 within 10 sets

[TheDeeJ]

Thank god you said 12 because I can't do a single one more.

[freshpresh]

can do 11
feelsbadman

[kyokushin1]

i can do 10 but only on my first set

[TranKy]

I can't even do one, so because of OP now I am in the same group as the guy who can do 11. Thank you OP

Notsrs, OP is a ******* , this is the misc, nobody lifts.

[MichaelBb6]

You're 18 and you think you know more than experts in the history of steroids. If you can find evidence that nilevar wasn't the first synthetic steroid invented in 1956 and that bodybuilders were injecting themselves with testosterone before the early 50's when the soviet weightlifting team began using it then be my guest.

Re-write history forever young paddawan.

History says there was synthetic steroids before 1956 regardless of usage or not, u ****ing clown boots. Just because there's no hard evidence he used, doesn't mean he didn't.

[Mongoose_Man]

This is a srs excuse lol. If you weigh like 220+ I can't see many guys getting 12+ strict. Bodyweight movements favor small guys heavily. 120-130lb tiny jacked gymnasts go HAM on them.

HAM... wut dat mean?

[oneshotGG]

guarantee you couldn't do 3 pull ups if I put a 45 plate on you.

*******. not everyone can be 150

lol i think i could

and if i weighed 180lb+, you can be sure as hell that my back would be a lot stronger to compensate for the increase in weight

[Judgment]

I can do 16 dead hang chin ups with my palms facing forward and very narrow grip.

I can only do 5 dead hang chin ups with wide grip.


I hate imbalances...

[Epithet]

IMO pull-ups are an exclusive exercise. If you stop doing them, you get worse at it regardless of other exercises you do for your back and arms. I did Bill Starr's 5x5 and after I got off it, I couldn't even get 8 pull-ups, even though I was deadlifting and rowing a LOT more and my back and arms were stronger/bigger.

cliffs of short post:
OP's opinion: invalid. OP should go lift

[RegParkWasNatty]

History says there was synthetic steroids before 1956 regardless of usage or not, u ****ing clown boots. Just because there's no hard evidence he used, doesn't mean he didn't.

Ok if history shows that then prove it. Unless of course, you're confusing testosterone with synthetic steroids?

[JSC90]

lol i think i could

and if i weighed 180lb+, you can be sure as hell that my back would be a lot stronger to compensate for the increase in weight

Are you trying to compensate for the fact that you're a twig?

[Judgment]

u ****ing clown boots.

I don't know if I'm just sleep deprived but I legitimately Lol'd @ this.

[MichaelBb6]

Ok if history shows that then prove it. Unless of course, you're confusing testosterone with synthetic steroids?

"The history of anabolic steroids can be traced back to as early as 1930's, before the term steroid was even used. In the 1930's, a team of scientists was able to create a synthetic form of testosterone (a male hormone) to help treat men who were unable to produce enough of the hormone for normal growth, development, and sexual functioning. Later, during World War II it was found that this artificial form of testosterone could be used to help malnourished soldiers gain weight and improve performance."

[RegParkWasNatty]

"The history of anabolic steroids can be traced back to as early as 1930's, before the term steroid was even used. In the 1930's, a team of scientists was able to create a synthetic form of testosterone (a male hormone) to help treat men who were unable to produce enough of the hormone for normal growth, development, and sexual functioning. Later, during World War II it was found that this artificial form of testosterone could be used to help malnourished soldiers gain weight and improve performance."

The Germans were experimenting with testosterone suspension and esters (such as propionate) in a clinical setting before the war and are speculated to have continued during the war. Whether that research involved humans is uncertain, but again, speculated. Such tests were conducted and well published in the west also, so it isn't like it was a German secret. Ruzicka was given the Nobel prize in 1939 for his work with male hormones. At that time, however, researchers were still trying to determine and understand what it is that testosterone does and identifying possible therapeutic uses for it. They were light years from realizing it could be used to build above normal amounts of lean body mass in already healthy individuals. Testosterone injections were reportedly given to British soldiers that were captured in Singapore while they were recovering in Australia after the war. This is possible, because it was known by then that testosterone could help in wound healing and recovery from malnourishment. However, again, NO ONE at that time had made the connection that testosterone could have athletic applications. By the mid-1940s some began speculating about testosterone's effects in healthy young men and athletes, as Paul de Kruif mentioned briefly in his 1945 book, "The Male Hormone" (speculating that the results might be "interesting" if athletes were to take it). However, testosterone didn't receive FDA approval until 1950 and no pharmaceutical company was mass producing testosterone before that because there was no legal market for it. So even if bodybuilders knew about it and wanted it they would not have been able to secure a supply.

[oneshotGG]

Are you trying to compensate for the fact that you're a twig?

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[Mongoose_Man]

-----Texas A&M Communications Class of 2014-----

I'd like a mocha frappuccino pls

lmao

[MichaelBb6]

The Germans were experimenting with testosterone suspension and esters (such as propionate) in a clinical setting before the war and are speculated to have continued during the war. Whether that research involved humans is uncertain, but again, speculated. Such tests were conducted and well published in the west also, so it isn't like it was a German secret. Ruzicka was given the Nobel prize in 1939 for his work with male hormones. At that time, however, researchers were still trying to determine and understand what it is that testosterone does and identifying possible therapeutic uses for it. They were light years from realizing it could be used to build above normal amounts of lean body mass in already healthy individuals. Testosterone injections were reportedly given to British soldiers that were captured in Singapore while they were recovering in Australia after the war. This is possible, because it was known by then that testosterone could help in wound healing and recovery from malnourishment. However, again, NO ONE at that time had made the connection that testosterone could have athletic application. (that's a lie) By the mid-1940s some began speculating about testosterone's effects in healthy young men and athletes, as Paul de Kruif mentioned briefly in his 1945 book, "The Male Hormone" (speculating that the results might be "interesting" if athletes were to take it). However, testosterone didn't receive FDA approval until 1950 and no pharmaceutical company was mass producing testosterone before that because there was no legal market for it. So even if bodybuilders knew about it and wanted it they would not have been able to secure a supply.

Has there ever been a ****ing legal supply of steroids u goof ball? Legal Test =/= Steroids. You know nothing but fabricated lies lol.

[RegParkWasNatty]

Testosterone was first approved for prescription as a cancer, wasting and burn treatment in the U.S. in 1950. Before that it was available for research purposes only, with the FDA tightening regulations and enforcement in the early 1950s. For a bodybuilder to be effectively using testosterone before 1950 he would not only had to have known more about the biochemistry, dosing and potential athletic applications of it than anybody else in the world (including the research scientists working with it), but also have had access to what was then an experimental drug, isolated in limited amounts for controlled research purposes, and not produced in quantity for a public or prescription market.

[MichaelBb6]

Testosterone was first approved for prescription as a cancer, wasting and burn treatment in the U.S. in 1950. Before that it was available for research purposes only, with the FDA tightening regulations and enforcement in the early 1950s. For a bodybuilder to be effectively using testosterone before 1950 he would not only had to have known more about the biochemistry, dosing and potential athletic applications of it than anybody else in the world (including the research scientists working with it), but also have had access to what was then an experimental drug, isolated in limited amounts for controlled research purposes, and not produced in quantity for a public or prescription market.

my jimmies are starting to get rustled. Your ****ing saying because it wasn't legal or because there wasn't "enough" supply they couldn't have gotten some? This must be trolling at its finest. Pls go ask any currently Bodybuilders if they know jack shiit about the biochemistry of steroids. Also, i'm starting to think you don't read what you copy and paste.

[RegParkWasNatty]

Has there ever been a ****ing legal supply of steroids u goof ball? Legal Test =/= Steroids. You know nothing but fabricated lies lol.

Without FDA approval a drug cannot be made in quantity in the U.S.. Modern bodybuilders use FDA approved drugs for "recreational purposes" for which they were not approved, and source drugs from outside the U.S. (hence, the huge black market for European and Mexican steroids). As Nilevar and Dianabol were the first synthetic anabolics developed, no countries other than the U.S. were manufacturing them before 1956 and 1958, respectively. Up to that point, the Soviets used testosterone alone.

[RegParkWasNatty]

my jimmies are starting to get rustled. Your ****ing saying because it wasn't legal or because there wasn't "enough" supply they couldn't have gotten some? This must be trolling at its finest. Pls go ask any currently Bodybuilders if they know jack shiit about the biochemistry of steroids. Also, i'm starting to think you don't read what you copy and paste.

No, they were cooking steroids up themselves in their basements.

[MichaelBb6]

Without FDA approval a drug cannot be made in quantity in the U.S.. Modern bodybuilders use FDA approved drugs for "recreational purposes" for which they were not approved (lol wut?), and source drugs from outside the U.S. (hence, the huge black market for European and Mexican steroids). As Nilevar and Dianabol were the first synthetic anabolics developed, no countries other than the U.S. were manufacturing them before 1956 and 1958, respectively. Up to that point, the Soviets used testosterone alone.

Contradicting yourself and making no sense. "Many of the illegal steroids are smuggled in from other countries, illegally diverted from U.S. pharmacies, or synthesized in secret laboratories. Estimates show that there are more than $400 million worth of black-market (illegal) sales of steroids per year." While this is more recent, there could easily have been similar numbers. Also, Reeves as well aware of steroids if he has the audacity to comment on them.

[FeralBeast]

imo the hardest part of doing pullups is GRIP STRENGTH (srs)

brb hands not strong enough to continue holding on to the bar and cant do as many pullups because of it

[VerticalDreams]

brb feet drag and touch the ground even when knees bent on chinup bar. fml.
+ enormous ROM 6'11 wingspan.

[HappyBrah]

dafuq is with the history of steroids discussion ITT?

I can do 10 on Olympic rings. Not tried on a bar but it's meant to be harder on rings. Does this mean I don't even exercise?