Doin about 20 to 25, havent done weighted yet
Maybe 30? Never had a reason to go so high before. I can strap a 35LB plate and hit 8 reps.
25 @235 lbs was my best I also did three reps with 90 pounds added so 325x3
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I did 35 a back and then stopped caring about how many I could do entirely.
21 from a dead hang with bodyweight
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Like 3… But I can bent over row more than I bench.
Most I’ve hit is 20 dead-hang after 3 sets (the latter two weighted) with a medium grip (not neutral). I was like 186/187 at the time not that impressive. I am impressed by guys who can get rep with 90+ lbs attached… the widest guy in my gym uses 3+ plates for his and has great form.
I can do somewhere around 30 now. Don’t normally go to absolute failure, usually stick with weighted and high volume work. I am 190 at the moment.
I can do 5. No kicking/flopping, etc. 
I want to be able to do ten by May 1st.
I have a question about pullups. The two most sore muscles after doing tons of pullups are my biceps and my forearms. I’m not sure I’m activating my back that much. Same think happens on pulldowns. Any suggestions?
Also, as I gain weight on my bulk, the number of pullups decrease week to week, so it’s hard to assess progress.
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I have a question about pullups. The two most sore muscles after doing tons of pullups are my biceps and my forearms. I’m not sure I’m activating my back that much. Same think happens on pulldowns. Any suggestions?
Also, as I gain weight on my bulk, the number of pullups decrease week to week, so it’s hard to assess progress.
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The best advice I can give for pullups (was my main lat exercise for a long time) is to make sure you are using a full range of motion for your back muscles. You should be trying to squeeze the lats at the top (not the arms, not trying to squeeze the shoulder blades together, but almost like you are trying to touch your elbows together behind you), and then lowering with them under control to a full stretch. The biggest help to me was once I learned how to stretch the lats out at the bottom of the movement, because doing that alone will prime them for a bigger contraction as you’re pulling up.
Arnold does pullups perfectly, which stands to reason since he believed they were the best lat builder:
Don’t lean back, or arch your back, don’t swing or kip or jerk, just straight up and down thinking about stretching out the lats and keep the tension on them.
Whoa I’ll go ahead and respectfully disagree sir…
I’ve heard that talk about the stretch being real important, but I really found keeping the ROM in the middle 80%–aka avoiding the extremes of the ROM–kept the stress on my lats and not my arms.
Also, consider doing lat pulldowns to warm up, focusing on your lat contracting…see if you can’t get a little pump from that, should make feeling your lats during pullups easier.
Last time I attempted max reps for a pullup I did 65lbs attached to my body for 16 sloppy reps I didn’t hold the contraction at the top nor did I do pulses at the bottom like I do now. This was 2 years ago, I quit doing any weighted pullup/chinup movements for 2 years after I hit my goal of a 130lb pullup for 1 at 170lbs… Since then I put weighted chin ups/pullups back in and found I got better at em… Mostly because I use my lats so much on my deadlift/oly lifts that I find a correlation between my pulls and chins/pullups and vice versa
I can currently hit 25 dead hang. In the 30s if I kip from the start. I’m at a body weight of 165 so they are a lot easier for me than the huge guys. When I was in the Marine Corps I was able to get to 30 deadhang but that was right after TBS where it was a daily thing for several months straight (I also weighed 150lbs.). I can usually do about 1 or 2 more if I can use a supinated grip (which was allowed at that time I was in the Marines).
This is an interesting thread. I’m sure some are exaggerating but I have seen guys who can do 50 without kipping (a very lean ripped rock climber).
I think anything over 20 is pretty good.
I did start at the bottom with a dead start, these days when I do them (mostly chinups) i only go for about 3 chins reason is because I do 3 lat pulses before i do a chinup sooo technically my volume is high-ish as in 3 pulses +1 full chinup with hold at top +3 pulses +1 +3 pulses +1 soo 12"reps" total