Damn, slept 11 hours, woke up 200lbs > 196.4lbs today :lawl:

Gonna drop to 189lbs, re-dexa and see if I can bulk and try to gain 6lbs of muscle by Y/E.


I agree, keto is generally only good for people who's been 5+ years consistently lean. They would have a good diet regardless of whatever fad they chose.

I bought a power tower. I had a door frame one and it damages the frame and the door if you aren't careful. I got kids so there's a lot of not careful running around the house breaking shit.

I was down to 162.2lbs this morning :D

Motivates me to keep going. Loose macro is working out well.

If anyone wants to feel shame about being weak there's an old (70+ y.o) East Indian granny at Edmonds who leg presses 3 plates (315lbs). They weren't full depth presses but she could definitely do 250 at full depth.

Go watch her then go find a corner to cry by yourself.

https://strengthlevel.com/strength-standards/pull-ups

This chart shows how pull-up reps people of various weights/age can do - it only counts people who workout (and self-reported) so by default even a novice/beginner level is likely ahead of 90 of the population.

Mike's 25 puts him in the advanced category by age which totally makes sense.

There's benchmarks for other exercises too but like all self reporting take it with a grain of salt as I'm sure how much weight people are lifting is exaggerated the same way dudes say they are 6' tall on dating apps when they are actually 5'9".

I should put 7ft tall in my dating app and see if they get disappointed when they only see 6’2

Or 6’2 and then show up in a wheelchair.

i had a door frame pull up bar that was basically just screwed into the frame. was sturdy as hell.

like this but it had brackets. put three 2" screws in each side, not going anywhere.

https://www.fitnessavenue.ca/product...ay-chin-up-bar

20 is nuts, I peaked at 12-13 clean ones @ 195lbs, it only shot up after doing weighted pull-ups

I've always hated this site, it grossly overinflates what the average is for most people, especially on the lifting side.

25+ is considered elite on any other site (this is navy seal level), but that site lists it as advanced, which is bullshit.

Even "elite" athletes aren't really doing 30+ pullups, that's ridiculous. It says someone @ 260 is considered elite at 25 pullups :lol

NFL players aren't even coming close to that, at that weight.

It's taken me 2 years of having a power tower in my home gym to do 6-7 full pull ups in one set.

I'm not sure how many here are beyond the "novice" category in exercises based on their data.

i cant do pullups anymore, idk why.. i used to do them when i weighed the same, but like 5+ years ago. i could do 4 reliably without touching the gym, and now that ive been at the gym for 6 months my trainer asked me to do pullups and i could barely muster a half assed one lol.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Toz4ntD96/

42 pull ups.. but it's Anatoly who's insanely strong

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