Love that you posted this. It really puts pullups in perspective. After all your years of training and with your body structure, 20 strict pullups is still a feat.
The pull ups' form is much cleaner than in the old video. Also, you do it much more confident and even faster than you did when you were younger. Impressive, Al.
Very impressive Al. Loving the beet coloured head / face at the end 😁. In the calisthenics world you've been one of my role models for the last 10 years. I'm just over a year older than you, so you inspire me to see what I could still be capable of! In fact you've inspired me to go a work on my pull-ups right now
Hey Al, just so you know, I'm 35 and today I hit 2 PR in push-ups and chin-ups because when I was about to fail and let go as asual I remembered your grind on that set and said to myself "no way I too can do it", and BAM new PR ! Grateful for the inspiration brother 🙏👍
I'd give that performance a 9.5/10. The only reason I have for deducting a 0.5 point is the relatively minor but noticle goosenecking. Pristine performance overall, my good sir. Keep up the good work Al!
I'm hoping someone knows about what causes this pull-up problem I have. I did pull-ups just fine for 13 months, then my forearms got strained so bad I couldn't do them anymore without using lifting straps that take out all the forearm work. During those times I did hammer curls to keep my forearms as strong as I could. After a year of using lifting straps, I've tried every few months to do them without the straps after my forearms felt better, but every time I go back to no straps, I end up re-injuring my forearms within a couple weeks. Am I doomed to using lifting straps forever, never again getting the forearm strength from pull-ups?
Those are real pull ups, 3 - 5 sets if one can is a work out, none of those street work out guys can't do no 10 sets of these with dips and push ups lol ,not correct range. Congrats my dude.
Would you say your lats are even? Or your pulling power? I feel as though I see you barely, and I mean BARELY, favoring your left side. That’s how I am. I’m right side dominant/ stronger but for some reason my left lat, delt, pec are noticeably bigger (to me). Do you have these issues? No matter how I train, I feel like the one side grows faster.
last 5 ones were not super "clean". But still fucking impressive man. I've never seen someone hit 15 pullups that clean. I do only clean, full range, pullups and I can do like 8 clean ones. Seeing the bros hit half range of motion with no control for like 10 reps makes me sad.
Imoressive, I am 180cm and 70kg, how much more of a disadvantage in pullups are you compared to my better gymnast body? How much worse does extra height and weight make you?
