Current Events > Youtuber challenges Americans to do 1 pull up for $100.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YucOKaC8qd4

Im so disappointed in America.

Video spoilers: 8 succeeded 21 failed.

pullups are actually impossible, arms and shoulders don't work that way
they used wires to pull up the people who appeared to do it

Sorry that I'm fat

Irony posted...

Sorry that I'm fat

Just use your weight to pull the bar down below your chins. It counts.

I'd pass, they probably wouldn't ask me

even i can do a pull up lmao

The muscles for pull ups aren't used particularly often so if you aren't in at least decent shape and young I'd imagine it'd be very hard for most.

I can do 2 of them lol, but not 3

To be fair these are a lot harder as an adult than they were as a kid, since you weigh more. I could probably do 2 but Im out of shape.

Pullups are really tough for women, that's kinda unavoidable. Even the ones that train struggle big time.

And there are probably few movements where you move so much weight with such little muscles.

But these dudes should have been able to rattle off one, come on dudes

Pull ups are pure strength to weight ratio. Fat/obese people will not be able to 1. Heavy but muscular people can do some but not as many as skinny and lean people. Skinny and lean people can rep them out easily.

Most Americans are obese/fat

deathproof12 posted...

Pull ups are pure strength to weight ratio. Fat/obese people will not be able to 1. Heavy but muscular people can do some but not as many as skinny and lean people. Skinny and lean people can rep them out easily.

Most Americans are obese/fat

Yeah. I could rep out 10 pullups long before I could do bench 225.

uh yeah pullups are really hard. it's way more embarrassing to think pullups are easy than it is to not be able to do one.

you're gonna get the same results regardless of the country you do this in, but i get it, it's funny to get jabs in on america for this and that

I've never given it a try despite being active the last 4 years

Yeah as a fat person myself, always struggled with pullups.

Thing most i could do at one time was 6 when i got down to 200lb.
Cant do any right now but always been my goal to do 10 at one time. Should be easier when i drop down the weight.

Hard when you start off having to pull up more than 100lbs than an average nonfat person.

im good for 2 pull ups

silverpine posted...

uh yeah pullups are really hard. it's way more embarrassing to think pullups are easy than it is to not be able to do one.

nobody thinks they're easy

that's why literally 1 is the benchmark

I can get 5 easily. I weight about 8 more pounds from what I did in high school mostly muscle and I'm more physically active then when I was in High School and in better shape except for cardio. That would be 15 years ago as well.