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Is the issue that he's not going low enough? Or that he's swinging his body?

brucephillips 9y ago
Not going low enough. A pullup requires you to straighten your arms completely to 180 degrees. He's not even getting to 90 degrees. It's not anything resembling a real pullup. It was the one challenge video I clicked through because it seemed like the most difficult. 40 pullups is a hard task. I wish Max wouldn't lie to market himself.
- schoen 9y ago
  His definition of a pull-up for purposes of the challenge was to reach 90°, but I agree that he doesn't do so in this video. https://medium.com/the-mission/my-month-long-quest-for-40-pull-ups-e37a00e1d0d https://medium.com/the-mission/my-month-long-quest-for-40-pu... You can look at his other projects, and he seems to do well under his definitions of success. He emphasizes that he's not starting from zero with respect to (almost) any of these skills. https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/m2m-day-1-completing-12-ridiculously-hard-challenges-in-12-months-9843700c741f https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/m2m-day-1-completing-12-ridic...
  - brucephillips 9y ago
    I could define an apple to be a banana. It doesn't make it accurate.
  - mellowdream 9y ago
    I can run a marathon in 2 minutes. By the way, my marathons are 20 feet.
sadlion 9y ago
When doing proper pull-ups you have to hang while keeping your back muscles engaged and with hands wider than your shoulders; pulling yourself up from that position is challenging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYpSV-_gBaE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYpSV-_gBaE
Florin_Andrei 9y ago
Bottom - arms straight. Top - chin above the bar. Anything less than that is not a pull-up.
majos 9y ago
I'll disagree slightly with posters who say that your arms should be straight 180 degrees at the bottom of the movement, since you want to keep your shoulders engaged throughout; a slight bend through the elbow is best, I think. But by slight I mean 170 degrees or something, not 80 or whatever this guy is doing.

Not going low enough. A pullup requires you to straighten your arms completely to 180 degrees. He's not even getting to 90 degrees. It's not anything resembling a real pullup. It was the one challenge video I clicked through because it seemed like the most difficult. 40 pullups is a hard task. I wish Max wouldn't lie to market himself.

schoen 9y ago
His definition of a pull-up for purposes of the challenge was to reach 90°, but I agree that he doesn't do so in this video. https://medium.com/the-mission/my-month-long-quest-for-40-pull-ups-e37a00e1d0d https://medium.com/the-mission/my-month-long-quest-for-40-pu... You can look at his other projects, and he seems to do well under his definitions of success. He emphasizes that he's not starting from zero with respect to (almost) any of these skills. https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/m2m-day-1-completing-12-ridiculously-hard-challenges-in-12-months-9843700c741f https://medium.com/@maxdeutsch/m2m-day-1-completing-12-ridic...
- brucephillips 9y ago
  I could define an apple to be a banana. It doesn't make it accurate.
- mellowdream 9y ago
  I can run a marathon in 2 minutes. By the way, my marathons are 20 feet.

sadlion 9y ago

When doing proper pull-ups you have to hang while keeping your back muscles engaged and with hands wider than your shoulders; pulling yourself up from that position is challenging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYpSV-_gBaE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYpSV-_gBaE

Florin_Andrei 9y ago

Bottom - arms straight. Top - chin above the bar. Anything less than that is not a pull-up.

majos 9y ago

I'll disagree slightly with posters who say that your arms should be straight 180 degrees at the bottom of the movement, since you want to keep your shoulders engaged throughout; a slight bend through the elbow is best, I think. But by slight I mean 170 degrees or something, not 80 or whatever this guy is doing.