New Pull-up World Record

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There wasn’t a doubt in my mind that my record of 2,409 would quickly be overcome by an even more impressive number, but I had never expected it to be beaten quite so quickly.

Two months ago, Guy Schott established a new standard of 3116 in 12 (9.5) hours and just recently, Stephen Hyland seems to have recaptured his position as the only record holder on the AWR pull-up page after performing 3750 pull-ups in 12 (8.0) hours. Congratulations to both of you.

Although it did not require a particularly innovative training regimen, this record was certainly a painful one for me to beat the first time, and isn’t something I plan to repeat in the near future. After all, multiple athletes have shown us that I’ll never be too old to try again later in life should I find myself in dire need of a masochistic half-day of cramped lats and torn hands.

Stephen, I am curious as to how you improved your record so dramatically in such a short period of time. Over an 18 month period, you raised your record from 2,222 in 12 hours to 3,750 in 8 hours. Do you credit this increase to any specific training methods or simply a wider range of competition to motivate you through the attempt? Any insight you can give me would be very helpful.

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I just stumbled across this thread and can I say, Holy Crap that is a lot of pullups, I don’t think I can go 12 hours without having a nap let alone doing pullups at that rate.

Congrads to Jason even though the record was broken, a great effort. I wonder how even more insane it is going to get.

Jason I am not sure if you posted it already but how many consecutive pullups can you do? Also can you do one arm pullups or finger pullups or any other similar feats?

To all the knockers out there, stop it, it is just stupid, sometimes this site is like a bitch fest.

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i am the new dip champion. over my entire lifetime, i have performed approximately 3 million dips. haha, i’d like to see anybody top that!

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pullup2406, I know this thread is six months old, but great work at setting a world record.

It doesn’t matter that it got broken, because how many people can ever say that they set a world record? Great job.

Plus, that comeback to Edders was pure gold.

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[quote]pullup2406 wrote:
There wasn’t a doubt in my mind that my record of 2,409 would quickly be overcome by an even more impressive number, but I had never expected it to be beaten quite so quickly.

Two months ago, Guy Schott established a new standard of 3116 in 12 (9.5) hours and just recently, Stephen Hyland seems to have recaptured his position as the only record holder on the AWR pull-up page after performing 3750 pull-ups in 12 (8.0) hours. Congratulations to both of you.

Although it did not require a particularly innovative training regimen, this record was certainly a painful one for me to beat the first time, and isn’t something I plan to repeat in the near future. After all, multiple athletes have shown us that I’ll never be too old to try again later in life should I find myself in dire need of a masochistic half-day of cramped lats and torn hands.

Stephen, I am curious as to how you improved your record so dramatically in such a short period of time. Over an 18 month period, you raised your record from 2,222 in 12 hours to 3,750 in 8 hours. Do you credit this increase to any specific training methods or simply a wider range of competition to motivate you through the attempt? Any insight you can give me would be very helpful.[/quote]

hi Jason just to reply to your last paragraph,I haven’t dramatically improved since the 2222 record I reach the existing WR at the time in 4.38 appx (1774appx)I carried on till 5hrs and this is a lesson for all ,I got a little cocky with so much time left we all decided to go lunch,came back didn’t warm up correctly ,to relaxed and within a few sets
ripped some muscles in my shoulder.

stopped again for treatment ,was going to stop then to save more damage but some more people turned up so I carried on a little longer and stopped on a number most people would remember ,so I only did appx 5/6hours ,my target was to double the existing record on the day,and in training was doing well over 2000 in one session every two weeks,this time was no different,

I always train the way I will compete,so it is no good doing power sets short work outs when on the day you will be going for hours,and there is the competition, Guy and I go back ,he emailed me ,asked about how I trained etc ,and when I replied and asked who he was why did he want to know ,

he just said something like I just want to improve etc,now if he had just been up front and said I’m the guy that’s going to take your record I would have more respect and would have had a little bit of banter,so I do get a little bit of fun taking the WR’s back off him ,but I take nothing away from Guy ,I have him to thank for keeping me going ,

I had read a little about him on the net and he comes across as genuine guy,with a wife who backs him all the way which is a great help,when I first read your last paragraph,I felt you (may be )insinuating that I may have taken some thing to improve my performance,I would like to state for the record I don’t do drugs and never have and I have never drank or smoked,(boring I know )

maybe I’m being a little sensitive ,but I do have a few little secrets,about training food while training and after,which is key for long sessions,which I feel I will keep to myself ,can’t give too much away,plus I may get sponsorship from the company.I’m waffling now so just to get back to the above,

I will being doing at least two more WRS attempts this year one not C U and more if any one take’s any of my existing,and as for the 12, 24 I am planning to do a day just for them and hope to push the bar a lot higher,the only issuse i had like most is the hands,i still did my full training session next day which was 4.5 mile run under 29mins off road 10k bic press ups over 500 and a light upper body work out ,the strongest muscle in your body is is the mind…

regards steve

ps (i would also like to state for the record my wife backs me all the way does all the paper work etc) that was close!!!

      p.p.s. from the WIFE - this is the last attempt - there will be no more. myself and official judges have resigned...........
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[quote]SprinterOne wrote:
I wonder how fast he can run.[/quote]\

I wonder how fast you can run. Not very I’ll bet

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[quote]katzenjammer wrote:

As far as whether pullups are a “real sport” - I assume many of the posters here are either powerlifters or bodybuilders, neither of which seems particularly “useful” or “practical” or even “natural.”
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gosh darn it, that’s it! all that damn time spent in the gym getting bigger and stronger…NO APPLICATION!! my life has been WASTED!!!

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[quote]steve hyland wrote:

when I first read your last paragraph,I felt you (may be )insinuating that I may have taken some thing to improve my performance,I would like to state for the record I don’t do drugs and never have

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I didn’t mean to imply that you had taken any performance enhancing drugs and am sorry if you felt that way. I know I get accused of taking steroids and other synthetic dietary supplements almost daily even though I consume only natural (coming directly from a plant or an animal) products.

If you don’t mind, I would like to see a video of a set of your pull-ups, preferably one of those performed during your record attempt. It’s only a matter of time before my height completely outgrows my pulling talent and any minor adjustment I can make to increase my efficiency would save me a great deal of joint wear and tear.

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Is there any known record for the most pullups in one set?

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[quote]pullup2406 wrote:
Anyway, I understand that my making myself weaker was a clear sign of my ignorance in the field of fitness, and will try to become better informed before the next time I break a world record. [/quote]

Lol. pwned.

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I don’t know if that it is true that there are a bunch of haters on this website, I think it would be more correct to say that there are a lot of insecure people on this website. And I can see why, you look at almost any photo critique and alot of the people have amazing physiques and they’re still picked apart.

Most of the authors on this site are genetic phenomenons, and probably don’t train harder than any of the rest of us and still look like a version of Michelangelos David on steroids. So you have these authors telling you that you can do better, and that you’re fat and lazy, then you have the people ripping each other on the threads, and pictures everywhere of bodies that aren’t realistic possibilities for most of the population.

I love pushing myself, and I’m going out to lift weights in about 20 minutes, but people need to give each other props. I mean, if you’re such a dickhead that you just want to come online and be an a-hole because you’re protected by identity, then go somewhere else.

My respect to everyone who comes on T-Nation and has manners and is respectful and courteous to the other members, and also a huge congratulations to the two guys on here who did alot of pullups, its very inspirational to me.

Remember, we’re all on here for the same reason, we’re all trying to better ourselves physically, and it goes alot better when you have positive mental reinforcement. We should be a team. Sorry for the rant but I don’t think that I am alone in what I feel.

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There are a lot of good people on this site who go to a lot of effort to help people.

It wasn’t so bad as it has been lately, in recent years.

There seems to be an influx of people who are skinny as hell and dumb as hell, who won’t read articles, or lift weights.

In the old days there were always people who wanted results with little effort as quick as possible.

But now there seem to be people who want RESPECT for “results” without doing ANYTHING - that is, they want to post a picture of their really skinny selves and get praise and admiration for their 4-pack abs, if they even have that. Without lifting weights or doing anything, let alone reading articles and actually lifting.

This really seems to have accelerated in recent years.

Also there has been a lot more bitchy whining.

I suspect it is a generation thing but it is hard to nail down the demographics.

It is really weird, is what it is.

I doubt there is any way in hell I could do that many pullups in a day, and I used to be a climber. Not even at my best. THAT WAS A WORLD RECORD. From the son of a guy who also seemed obsessed with pullups. If I had heard of an Armstrong pullup program in my youth when I climbed, man I would have gone crazy doing it. But no internet back then and a couple of black and white TV channels.

Today, all the info in the world at your fingertips and with hundreds of real people ripping it apart to help sort out the bullshit and lies instead of just accepting what the media puts out.

So I don’t really mind the idiots who post because it is good to challenge an opinion …

As an example when some kid posts their very normal, slightly muscled (no bulk, just lack of fat) body, thinking they are the strongest kid in the playground and really hot, I like it when they get ripped apart because they need to have their frame of reference challenged.

But when someone posts about a world record in something like this, and then it gets knocked by people, you have to sort out the girly-man bitches from the legitimate criticisms. The only criticism I have is the pullup guy has a bit of a weak squat compared to the rest of his lifts. Big deal, if your aim was to break such a record (and it probably was in the back of his mind his whole life) then that is a small and temporary sacrifice to make to achieve that.

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[quote]CappedAndPlanIt wrote:
Is there any known record for the most pullups in one set?[/quote]

I’ve seen several records listed for different variations of pull-ups performed consecutively including:

Overhanded Pull-Ups 135
Underhanded Pull-Ups (Chin-Ups) 370
One-Arm Chin-Ups 22, supposedly static
One-Arm Chin-Ups 26, supposedly dynamic
Two-Finger (of the same hand) Chin-Ups 18
One-Finger (of one hand) 12
Overhanded Pull-Ups during a Marine Corps PFT 76

I’m not sure which of these (if any) are accurate, but none of them seems particularly unrealistic. All of the above are proclaimed “official” by one organization or another.

Bruce Lee was rumored to have done 500 consecutive chin-ups while at his peak.

Guy Schott, former record holder for various pull-up records in the Book of Alternative Records claims to have been able to perform 90+ consecutive pull-ups.

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Hi Jason I managed to see a clip of your record attempt you use the pull ups But I do chin ups technique I keep the same grip for all attempts, I think it’s Great that you got some recognition on the abc news, Icouldn’t get a line in The local news paper, I did send my details of the day, to local news papers, Radio, bbc sport, talksport, radio etc etc, drop the age issue etc

just happen To mention I hold e few other records, and I didn’t get a reply, I did phone one Local paper and their response was old news not interested, couldn’t ,work

That one out since I had just done them, any way I have just received my
Certificates from Guinness world records for the 8 and 12 hr, which is reward in it’s self. I have just received an email from the same guy that said he was going to attempt your record and didn’t matt, he has put me on notice that he will be taking my 30min and 60 min records this year,

it will give me a reason to keep training ,now all I will have to do is sort out the wife and the judges, as they are getting bored now, well Jason best of luck in all your future endeavours, and remember you have been a WR holder and the is no reason, that you will not be again, the is not many people that can say that.

Regards steve

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there IS a lot of hateraide on here. Also, why would you want legs if you are trying to do 3000 pullups?? BUahahaha, I have like 27 inch legs, can squat over five hundred pounds AND can do pullups… Woohoo!! Congratulations to you maniacs who pulled yourselves up so many times; now go do some squats or some thing…

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[quote]steve hyland wrote:
Hi Jason I managed to see a clip of your record attempt you use the pull ups But I do chin ups technique[/quote]

So wait, Jason performed pull ups, while Steve performed chin ups? Those should be two different records, it’s apples and oranges! Am I missing something…?

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GOOD JOB MAN!

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[quote]rutkowsky wrote:
and how many pull ups can you guys do? now, this guy is unbelivable, i wander how he trained for it[/quote]

that’s the second guy from the UK that has spelt wonder “wander”.

Is illiteracy really that much of a problem?

i’m scared.