One handed chin up

TerrorFirmer

The most you can do? According to Guiness book of records, 22 is the highest.

I haven't tried in ages but a single chin up was my limit.

poobum

5...and then i would collapse in a heap...this was at stage where i done normal pull ups alot! (had pull up bar in my room)

HammerHeadGym

Even 1 is a huge achievment in terms of strength. A handful of people in the world can do this.

Nunu

Is it a proper one handed chin up, when you grip your wrist with the other hand? My brother can do 7 of these:eek:

t-ha

When I was down around the 175lb mark I could do about 5, I could even get one with a 5kg plate held in my free hand. Can't even do 1 right now, although I'm not so far off, I think maybe I could if I did it first thing on a good day.

Edit: when I say one armed chin, I mean with the second arm completely out of the picture, if you grab your wrist then you're still using the second arm quite alot and it's more of a grip test thing.

Vegeta

yeah its one arm only. if the second hand is involved at all it doesn't count. When I was in secondary school and built like a skelaton i could do over 10 holding on to my wrist but i was wafer thin and that's not a true one arm chin up

TerrorFirmer

Even holding my wrist I can only manage about 2 or 3...

amazingemmet

The guinness thing is wrong. For example there's a russian girl, yes girl, who does a roman rings act and can do 25 each arm no problem.

Vegeta

amazingemmet wrote:

The guinness thing is wrong. For example there's a russian girl, yes girl, who does a roman rings act and can do 25 each arm no problem.

maybe she's never applied to the guinneas book of world records officials and therefore it isn't entered.

BrianD3

I agree with the comment that even 1 of these is a major achievement. T-ha must be some animal if he could do 5 @ 175 pounds bodyweight and/or while holding a plate :eek: Fair play

I am trying to figure out what a comparable lift in terms of difficulty would be. I'd say a 4 times bodyweight deadlift might be close.

Just out of interest did you ever measure your 2 arm weighted chinup or pull up 1 RM.

I personally have experimented with one arm chin ups a fair bit. The best i did was a partial rep with about the top 50% of the ROM. Also did a hold at the top and slow negative with about 10 kg strapped on. Haven't done any 1 arm chinning work for a while now though as I kept injuring myself doing them. Elbow tendonitis, a forearm injury, a shoulder tweak. Even managed to pull something in my chest. BTW just before Christmas i did a 100% bodyweight weighted 2 arm pull up but I still don't envisage doing a proper 1 armer with just bodyweight anytime soon.

Vegeta

HavoK wrote:

Even holding my wrist I can only manage about 2 or 3...

currently i doubt i'd do 1. My chin up performance has gone way down hill over the last 3 years as I have started to gain weight

amazingemmet

100% bw chin nice!

Have you tried doing towel chin ups to build up to the oac?

daveirl

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t-ha

BrianD3 wrote:

T-ha must be some animal if he could do 5 @ 175 pounds bodyweight and/or while holding a plate :eek: Fair play

I am trying to figure out what a comparable lift in terms of difficulty would be. I'd say a 4 times bodyweight deadlift might be close.

Just out of interest did you ever measure your 2 arm weighted chinup or pull up 1 RM.

The by-product of using 5 reps as a 'high-rep' set for 9 months . My best deadlift at the time was almost 2.6 x BW for a set of three. Well off of 4 x BW.

I never did a 2-arm chin 1RM, but (I'm thinking back a bit know) I think I used to do 5 x 5 rep sets with an added 50kg.

BrianD3

As regards weighted 2 armers vs the BW OAC - I think they are quite different in terms of the biomechanics. As well as myself, I have heard of others who could do a 2 armer with 100% BW strapped on but were not even close to doing a BW one armer. And vice versa - have heard of people doing a 1 armer with BW who were well away from doing a weighted 2 armer with 100% BW.

Hard to know with some of these reports though. I heard somewhere before that for most humans the anatomy of the shoulder makes it extremely difficult to start a OAC from a dead hang. It may be that some who say they can do a OAC are actually starting from a point slightly above a dead hang (still very impressive though) Or perhaps some people have shoulder joints which are a bit different than normal which gives them an advantage for the OAC.

I personally cannot do the weighted 2 armer with 100% bodyweight right now though :mad: I'll get it back though. For some reason I got completely out of the groove over Christmas. Gained a few pounds due to pudding so that will affect chin ups but also my deadlifting has gone backwards. The only thing that has improved recently is my Captains of Crush grip - have now closed the No.2 with my dominant right hand and no.1 with my left. Speculating I'd say I may have overtrained my CNS with the grippers (very easy trap to fall into) and all my lifts have suffered as a result.

When I get back into the groove with my other exercises I'll also have a look at the towel chin ups and start training for the OAC again.

As can be seen, this is something of an obsesssion On the dragondoor site there is an article about the OAC and it is mentioned that this exercise tends to attract "obsessive personalities"

two good articles on OAC
http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode3/232/
http://www.beastskills.com/OneArmPull.htm

D-Generate

I love that beastskills site just to look at the Flag and go wow!

rubadub

amazingemmet wrote:

The guinness thing is wrong. For example there's a russian girl, yes girl, who does a roman rings act and can do 25 each arm no problem.

Probably not the same girl but this one was on discovery a while back.
http://streaming.discoverynetworksinternational.com/uk/myshocktitle-strongestgirl.wmv

They showed some breed of cow they thought had the same genetic mutation, the cow was totally ripped! huge muscles, freaky looking.

Here are some pics but the one on the program was more impressive
http://images.google.com/images?q=Belgian+Blue+breed&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&start=18&sa=N&ndsp=18

I cant do any totally one handed but can manage a few holding my wrist with the other hand.

D-Generate wrote:

I love that beastskills site just to look at the Flag and go wow!

Too right!
http://www.beastskills.com/Flag.htm
amazingemmet had a link to some circus guy who not only did that flag but was doing push ups with it, i.e. looked like a handstand push up but from the side, I could just imagine some scumbag starting on you in the street, grab the nearest pole and start doing these and he would scarper home to change his pants.

padi89

rubadub wrote:

Probably not the same girl but this one was on discovery a while back.
http://streaming.discoverynetworksinternational.com/uk/myshocktitle-strongestgirl.wmv

Thats fvcked up and pretty sad to be honest,the father should be locked up,a freeking baby with weights on?????

davyjose

rubadub wrote:

amazingemmet had a link to some circus guy who not only did that flag but was doing push ups with it, i.e. looked like a handstand push up but from the side, I could just imagine some scumbag starting on you in the street, grab the nearest pole and start doing these and he would scarper home to change his pants.

This is it, I believe -Dominic Lacasse, I mentioned him earlier - put it on my favourites:D

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/332432/acrobatic_training_upper_body/

TerrorFirmer

I doubt I could do a single one now given that I'm well over a stone and half heavier when I could manage one. Fair play to you t-ha, 5 while weighted down is impressive.

I don't have a bar myself, and I'd not attempt it at the gym for fear of making an ass of myself.

just wondering if any of the animals here were anywhere in the vicinity of the originally mentioned 22 figure, and as for accuracy, sorry I should have mentioned its also the 2003 book, although it does say that particular record has been unbroken since the 80's or something.

amazingemmet

Gimme a couple of years and the record will be mine (maybe).

The russian girl i was talking about wasn't the same one as in the vid

t-ha

HavoK wrote:

Fair play to you t-ha, 5 while weighted down is impressive.

Cheers, actually with the plate was a 1RM.

That thing with the Russian girl is crazy - it's clear that she does not have a mutated myostatin gene. When that gene isn't working right the result is that hypertrophy is far less limited than normal, and examples are pretty easily spotted by their massive muscularity, particularly if they train as much as her.

Skiesonfire19

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