Get To Da Choppa: Pull-up PvP [Aug 13 - Sept 9 ]

[Wild Wolf]

1 minute ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Rower, hmm. I'm leaning towards not including it more for the complexity of logging than anything.

Deadlifts. I went back and forth on including this and left it off to keep the challenge more about 'typical' pull up exercises. But I'm happy for a group decision on this.

 

No worries then-I don't want to complicate things with this. I'll just stick with pull-ups  

 

Wolf

[Elastigirl]

8 hours ago, Jarric said:

mmer-ups are my made up word for something I don't know the name of. Basically my pull-up bar is this shape:   - ¦ - - ¦ - 

I call a pullup gripping the outside two, palms away from me:   m ¦ - - ¦ m

I call a chinup gripping the middle two, palms facing towards me:   - ¦ w w ¦ - 

I call a hammer-up gripping the middle bits, palms facing inwards:   - E - - Э -

 

Makes sense, thanks. Those rock grips look fun!

[Elastigirl]

And while we are discussing what counts. I have some questions. Do any of these count as pull ups or assited.

 

Ring exercises

Inverted hang

Skin the Cat

 

And the baby muscle up. which is a progression of muscle up, which is sort of a pull up, only the rings are lower and the grip is differet

[Wild Wolf]

4 hours ago, Elastigirl said:

And while we are discussing what counts. I have some questions. Do any of these count as pull ups or assited.

 

Ring exercises

Inverted hang

Skin the Cat

 

And the baby muscle up. which is a progression of muscle up, which is sort of a pull up, only the rings are lower and the grip is differet

 

I would definitely count both of these.  

 

Wolf

[Charlie_Quinn]

11 hours ago, Elastigirl said:

And while we are discussing what counts. I have some questions. Do any of these count as pull ups or assited.

 

Ring exercises

Inverted hang

Skin the Cat

 

 

From the videos you posted, I'd class these more as hanging exercises than assistance? They seem to be predominantly grip and core based. 

 

There are a million and one different variations of pulling and hanging exercises out there so we could spend the entire four weeks debating what's "allowed" and what's not! 

This PvP is to help people increase their pull ups or do their first pull up. If there is an exercise that you do as part of your routine that is helping you reach that goal, then I'd say count it as 2 points per rep (1 point per 20 sec for timed hangs).

 

How's everyone's week been? I'm happy to report that all the pull up work is paying off and I'm back to doing 2 pull ups in as row. They're not the prettiest of pull ups and the ROM needs a little work, but it's still an improvement so I'll take it!

[Legionary]

Variety day on the program today, so 9 sets (3 narrow, 3 normal, 3 wide). I got a total of 76 pull ups across those. Ow my body is sore, also I might be out for a few days, hopping on a plane to Florida today, I'm gonna try to get some playground workouts in at the campground but I don't know. 

[Jarric]

16 minutes ago, Legionary said:

Variety day on the program today, so 9 sets (3 narrow, 3 normal, 3 wide). I got a total of 76 pull ups across those. Ow my body is sore, also I might be out for a few days, hopping on a plane to Florida today, I'm gonna try to get some playground workouts in at the campground but I don't know. 

 

Nice going, you're smashing this!

[Jarric]

Got my second session in for the week:

 

Deadhangs from rock grips - 6 x 15 seconds - 4 points

Scap pulls from rock grips - 12, 8, 12, 12 - 88 points

Pull ups - 5, 5, 4, 3, 5 - 66 points

Alternating chin-ups and hammer-ups - 5, 4, 5 - 42 points (totally ran out of energy here, there should have been another three sets!)

 

Total: 200 points

 

Total for challenge so far: 467 points and currently in 2nd place.

 

My plan is generally going to be sessions Monday, Wednesday, Friday. This week I'm probably going to enter a climbing competition on Friday though, in which case I won't have any arms left for pullup training afterwards!

[Wild Wolf]

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

Total for challenge so far: 467 points and currently in 2nd place.

 

I'm coming for ya! (Also, well done in that sense too )

 

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

This week I'm probably going to enter a climbing competition on Friday though, in which case I won't have any arms left for pullup training afterwards!

 

SWANKY! I hope you do well in the competition brother  

 

Did 3 x 10 of Aussie Pull-ups (horizontal pull-ups) at the playground yesterday while the wolfpack played and then did 3 x 12 of T-bar rows this morning before I hopped in the pool and swam for 30 min. Currently at 217 and in 4th place. @Cheetah is just 7 points behind me. YIKES!

 

 

Wolf

[Cheetah]

10 minutes ago, Wolfpool said:

points

 

Your lead might be safe, I'm at my kids school all morning today.  Don't know how many I'll get in this week.

[Elastigirl]

5 hours ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

ThaThere are a million and one different variations of pulling and hanging exercises out there so we could spend the entire four weeks debating what's "allowed" and what's not! 

This PvP is to help people increase their pull ups or do their first pull up. If there is an exercise that you do as part of your routine that is helping you reach that goal, then I'd say count it as 2 points per rep (1 point per 20 sec for timed hangs).

 

How's everyone's week been? I'm happy to report that all the pull up work is paying off and I'm back to doing 2 pull ups in as row. They're not the prettiest of pull ups and the ROM needs a little work, but it's still an improvement so I'll take it!

Thanks CQ, I like that solution, that seems easy.

 

yay for 2 pull ups!

 

The thing that I'm most happy about is my scapular pull ups. I've done them before, but always felt like I didn't have very much movement. This time I can actually feel the movement in my shoulders.

[starpuck]

On 8/13/2018 at 3:29 PM, Starpuck said:

Managed 26 total across 5 sets.  [8,8,4,3,3]

 

Improvement already!

Today's workout.   9,8,6,4,4   (31 total)

 

Unfortunately, that shreds me and I have no oomph left to do any of those other types of thinguses! 

 

But, but --- I am able to go, damn, in the span of 3 days, I can do 5 more total reps!  That's not shabby.

[WhiteGhost]

Got in a workout yesterday at the park which included:

 

L-sit pullups x5

tuck lever -> tuck pullup x10

CTB pullups x5

pull jump thingys* x10

widearm pullups x10

 

 * kind of like a salmon ladder except the bars are fixed and I have to jump around from bar to bar

[Legionary]

Found a playground near my campsite. Did pull ups on the monkey bars. Alternating pull and push exercisesI got 40 pull ups in (various hand positions). 

[Wild Wolf]

Did a KB complex this morning and added in KB bent over rows for a total of 70 pts (7 rounds of 5 reps). Then finished with 3 x 10 DB bicep curls superset with 3 x :20 dead hangs for another 63 pts. 

 

Total: 133 pts

 

I miiiiight get some pull-ups in this weekend..but I'm pretty spent from this week. Lol. 

 

PLUS... @Legionary has a commanding lead that's going to be tough to catch up too. I'll be happy to finish top 5  

 

 

Wolf

[WhiteGhost]

Got in a big pull workout this morning:

 

CTB pullups x10

Front lever lifts x10

L-sit pullups x10

Front lever extensions x10

Tuck front lever ->  tuck pullup x10

Tuck front lever rows x10

CTB hold x20 seconds

 

I also did some back lever stuff but only counted 2 pts per rep because they are more of a peripheral exercise than the front pulling ones

 

Tuck back lever lifts x10

Back lever extensions x10  

[Elastigirl]

Did some scapular pull ups  and then 20 pull ups GTG style throughout the day

[bker1370]

Coming in a little late, but count me in too...  need to decide on an action hero but not going to wait on that to get started.

[Legionary]

Rest weekend over. Back to training. I didn't have time to run to the playground for pull ups so I did 100 bw rows on the bumper of the camper. 

[Wild Wolf]

1 hour ago, Legionary said:

so I did 100 bw rows on the bumper of the camper.

 

 

You're an animal dude.

 

2x5 GtG pull-ups yesterday for 30 pts

4x3 pull-ups superset with 4x12 t-bar cable rows for 180 pt.

 

Weekend total- 210 pts.

 

Wolf

[Elastigirl]

2 hours ago, Legionary said:

Rest weekend over. Back to training. I didn't have time to run to the playground for pull ups so I did 100 bw rows on the bumper of the camper. 

So awesome. Next time we need video of that.

[bker1370]

Got a few pull-ups in so far (4 yesterday and 4 so far today).  Will get some more in later today or maybe some BW rows (or both... why not?)

[Elastigirl]

Well the bad news is our air quality was too bad for me to do my outdoor ring workout. But the good news is that gave me more time and energy to do pull ups

 

30 scapular pulls

34 pull ups

40 ring rows

 3 20 sec dead hangs

 

[starpuck]

Omg, dudes and dudettes, I am so out of my league here, lol!

You guys are all beasts!

 

It's okay!    Just because I won't place, doesn't mean I can't finish the race!

 

Did Ring Rows today so that I could do pull ups on Wed (when I have hockey and can't do a proper leg workout anyway).

10 x 5 for 50 total and 100pts.

Then a 40" hold into slow negative at the end of the workout for another 4 pts.

 

[Legionary]

Max day for the program. Got 55 pull ups (max set 18, average set 10). Also did 30 bumper bw rows for good measure.