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Itlan_sl said:
The reason I asked isn't because of his squat or bench numbers, but because he's claiming 12-14 reps of pull-ups and didn't list a deadlift weight.

12-14 reps at is pretty damn good, even at 180 body weight. Unless he's talking chin-ups in actuality.

For reference, I only pull 295 compared to squatting 285 and benching 245. I think low-bar squats are killing my deadlifts gainz bruhs.
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I haven't really been doing any meaningful deadlift work so I'm not strong there, and haven't even tried to go heavy. I can do 12 chin ups I guess (didn't even realize there was a distinction between chin ups and pull ups until you guys brought up) where my hands are facing each other, so the bars are parallel facing away from me. With closed-grip I could probably do a couple more. With open-grip (hands facing away from me and further apart) I can do 3 sets of 6, but I haven't tried those to see how many I could do all at once. Probably not more than 9, 6 is already killing me and my form sucks for the last few in the last set.
 
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Cad_sl said:
I haven't really been doing any meaningful deadlift work so I'm not strong there, and haven't even tried to go heavy. I can do 12 chin ups I guess (didn't even realize there was a distinction between chin ups and pull ups until you guys brought up) where my hands are facing each other, so the bars are parallel facing away from me. With closed-grip I could probably do a couple more. With open-grip (hands facing away from me and further apart) I can do 3 sets of 6, but I haven't tried those to see how many I could do all at once. Probably not more than 9, 6 is already killing me and my form sucks for the last few in the last set.
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For the vast majority of people, chin ups are going to be way easier to do than pull ups. Chin ups, especially the the close grip kind you described, use way more arm muscle than back muscle, whereas pull ups are the opposite.

This:

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Will be much easier to crank out a bunch of reps compared to this:

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For pull ups, the wider you move your arms apart the more back muscle is going to be needed, and it's going to get more difficult.
 
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McCheese_sl said:
For the vast majority of people, chin ups are going to be way easier to do than pull ups. Chin ups, especially the the close grip kind you described, use way more arm muscle than back muscle, whereas pull ups are the opposite.

This:


Will be much easier to crank out a bunch of reps compared to this:

For pull ups, the wider you move your arms apart the more back muscle is going to be needed, and it's going to get more difficult.
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Oh absolutely. This is the type of machine I use (without the assist, obviously):

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So I can do 12 or so on those inner handles, less on the outer handles. Those lower handles are somewhere in the middle. I do the closed-grip pull downs on the weight rack.
 
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Well, looks like I shit out a decent amount of that Japan weight. Since weighing myself over there, I'm down to 197 (over the 204 I weighed there). Whew... Now to drop down to 190.
 
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I do 4 sets of 10 wide grip pull ups to start back day. Really didn't realize it was considered that difficult as I have always sucked at pull ups. Beginning of summer I could barely get the first set of 10 without an assist from the machine above. Now, all 40 completely unassisted. It is just about doing 40 every week, slowly reducing the assist weight.
 
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Foggy_sl said:
I do 4 sets of 10 wide grip pull ups to start back day. Really didn't realize it was considered that difficult as I have always sucked at pull ups. Beginning of summer I could barely get the first set of 10 without an assist from the machine above. Now, all 40 completely unassisted. It is just about doing 40 every week, slowly reducing the assist weight.
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Yup, I 4 months ago I probably couldn't do 2-3 unassisted, I always used 40lbs of assist to get through 6 sets of 8. Now I do most of them unassisted and throw on 20lbs if I am dogging it or can't finish. In another 2-3 months I should be able to hang 20lbs from my belt and continue. You just have to keep trying it and keep building.
 
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I've been a runner for the past 3 years until I injured my ankle doing a half marathon (in Vibram's on pavement) in February. Over the next 6 months I ate like I was still running and put on 25 lbs. This is the first time for me to be overweight. (Age 18-28 = 165lbs - this August = 189)

After a pudgy trip to the beach in August I decided to sign up for MFP and try calorie restriction. 1300-1500 cal/day is hard. Weight loss was very slow doing that, 1ish lb loss a week. In early September, after extensive reading, I decided to try keto.

I rank that decision with quitting smoking. The bodyfat has been melting off, I'm down to 177. I'm completely satiated all day at 1300 calories. I feel great, even healthier than I did eating carbs in my running prime. I have done little to no exercise. I have only run 4 times so far while on keto the last few weeks, three 5k and one 10k. Last weekend my new-found energy inspired my buddy to try keto.

To anyone reading this thread thinking about trying a ketosis diet; Do it.
 
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Scratch_sl said:
I've been a runner for the past 3 years until I injured my ankle doing a half marathon (in Vibram's on pavement) in February. Over the next 6 months I ate like I was still running and put on 25 lbs. This is the first time for me to be overweight. (Age 18-28 = 165lbs - this August = 189)

After a pudgy trip to the beach in August I decided to sign up for MFP and try calorie restriction. 1300-1500 cal/day is hard. Weight loss was very slow doing that, 1ish lb loss a week. In early September, after extensive reading, I decided to try keto.

I rank that decision with quitting smoking. The bodyfat has been melting off, I'm down to 177. I'm completely satiated all day at 1300 calories. I feel great, even healthier than I did eating carbs in my running prime. I have done little to no exercise. I have only run 4 times so far while on keto the last few weeks, three 5k and one 10k. Last weekend my new-found energy inspired my buddy to try keto.

To anyone reading this thread thinking about trying a ketosis diet; Do it.
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Can confirm. Cutting carbs is a great way to lose weight.
 
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Scratch_sl said:
I've been a runner for the past 3 years until I injured my ankle doing a half marathon (in Vibram's on pavement) in February. Over the next 6 months I ate like I was still running and put on 25 lbs. This is the first time for me to be overweight. (Age 18-28 = 165lbs - this August = 189)

After a pudgy trip to the beach in August I decided to sign up for MFP and try calorie restriction. 1300-1500 cal/day is hard. Weight loss was very slow doing that, 1ish lb loss a week. In early September, after extensive reading, I decided to try keto.

I rank that decision with quitting smoking. The bodyfat has been melting off, I'm down to 177. I'm completely satiated all day at 1300 calories. I feel great, even healthier than I did eating carbs in my running prime. I have done little to no exercise. I have only run 4 times so far while on keto the last few weeks, three 5k and one 10k. Last weekend my new-found energy inspired my buddy to try keto.

To anyone reading this thread thinking about trying a ketosis diet; Do it.
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How tall are you?
 
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I know this is mainly a gym thread when it concerns weight lifting, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend some home equipment? Nothing fancy, I was thinking one(or two?) of those adjustable weight dumbbells, a bench, and a mat. Would I need anything more than that and what types/brands are best? I'm just looking to workout to workout, not necessarily put on a lot of muscle. I want it more for the health benefits and going to the gym lately has been a pain.
 
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I believe for adjustable dumbbells you'd want to go with PowerBlock or Ironmaster. All of the other brands are fairly sketchy on quality.
 
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Deathwing_sl said:
I know this is mainly a gym thread when it concerns weight lifting, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend some home equipment? Nothing fancy, I was thinking one(or two?) of those adjustable weight dumbbells, a bench, and a mat. Would I need anything more than that and what types/brands are best? I'm just looking to workout to workout, not necessarily put on a lot of muscle. I want it more for the health benefits and going to the gym lately has been a pain.
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I bought a set of Powerblocks based on recommendations I received here and they're pretty awesome. You can buy the 50/70 base model/expansion and if you ever need to can buy the expansions to 90 and then 130 (?). They're sort of a pain in the ass if you need to pull out the 2.5 pound weights embedded in the base handle, but it's better than having a million dumbbells.

For my home gym I just got an adjustable bench (flat, incline, 90 degrees) and am able to most exercises that I need just using that. We also have a treadmill and invested in buying foam padding for the floor (basement).
 
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Deathwing_sl said:
I know this is mainly a gym thread when it concerns weight lifting, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend some home equipment? Nothing fancy, I was thinking one(or two?) of those adjustable weight dumbbells, a bench, and a mat. Would I need anything more than that and what types/brands are best? I'm just looking to workout to workout, not necessarily put on a lot of muscle. I want it more for the health benefits and going to the gym lately has been a pain.
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You'll need some way to do chin-ups also.
 
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Cad_sl said:
You'll need some way to do chin-ups also.
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I'm not doing chinups now. Is this just a reference to earlier in the thread? I only loosely read that part. Or do chinups hit some muscles in a unique way? I'm not getting one of those silly door bars.
 
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Deathwing_sl said:
I know this is mainly a gym thread when it concerns weight lifting, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend some home equipment? Nothing fancy, I was thinking one(or two?) of those adjustable weight dumbbells, a bench, and a mat. Would I need anything more than that and what types/brands are best? I'm just looking to workout to workout, not necessarily put on a lot of muscle. I want it more for the health benefits and going to the gym lately has been a pain.
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The most basic equipment that will let you do just about anything you want workout wise is: Squat rack, movable bench that can incline, 45 lb barbell, 2 each of 45 lb, 25lb, 10ib, 5lb, 2.5lb plates. You will be able to hit pretty much every essential exercise and if you don't care about getting bulky you won't need more weights. Having room for all that can be an issue.
 
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Deathwing_sl said:
I'm not doing chinups now. Is this just a reference to earlier in the thread? I only loosely read that part. Or do chinups hit some muscles in a unique way? I'm not getting one of those silly door bars.
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I'd recommend getting one of those bars so you can do pull ups. Pull ups are one of the best back exercises you can do because they work pretty much all the back muscles, plus it's just a very useful thing to be able to; you never know when you might need to climb up onto something, get over a fence, up on a rock, etc. It's a very functional exercise that can be banged out in very short order and provides enormous results.

*Edit* I've been working on my pull ups for the last few months and I'm at the point where I can do several sets of 5 - 8 without any problem. This came in handy a few weeks ago when I was out hiking and I wanted to get up on a big rock to take a picture. I had to jump and climb up, using a pull up motion to get myself up. If I hadn't been working on pull ups I'd never have been able to get up there.
 
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McCheese_sl said:
I'd recommend getting one of those bars so you can do pull ups. Pull ups are one of the best back exercises you can do because they work pretty much all the back muscles, plus it's just a very useful thing to be able to; you never know when you might need to climb up onto something, get over a fence, up on a rock, etc. It's a very functional exercise that can be banged out in very short order and provides enormous results.

*Edit* I've been working on my pull ups for the last few months and I'm at the point where I can do several sets of 5 - 8 without any problem. This came in handy a few weeks ago when I was out hiking and I wanted to get up on a big rock to take a picture. I had to jump and climb up, using a pull up motion to get myself up. If I hadn't been working on pull ups I'd never have been able to get up there.
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My "silly" comment wasn't in regard to the exercise itself. I've seen way too many people fuck themselves and/or their door using those bars.
 
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Deathwing_sl said:
My "silly" comment wasn't in regard to the exercise itself. I've seen way too many people fuck themselves and/or their door using those bars.
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Oh. Well if your house isn't made of paper and you secure it firmly you'll be fine. It also helps that you don't weigh 300 pounds.
 
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