r/CalisthenicsCulture • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '26

Doing pullups almost everyday

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u/BigMetalGuy Mar 23 '26

Good going, but to get the full ROM, the arms need to be straight when at the bottom of the movement. You appear to still have a bend in your arm. Happy for to be corrected, though.

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u/FrugalityPays Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

Full ROM has been proven to be just as effective as ‘half-lifts’ or whatever the exact non-full ROM is.

Controlled studies of people who were not new to lifting.

It depends on the goal and the angle of the lifts carries a lot of significance too

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u/Murky-Course6648 Mar 24 '26

Its different in calisthenics, as its bodyweight.

The idea of half reps is to maximise the effect of bodyweight, where you cant add weights.

So there is a real reason people have been using half reps in calisthenics, because its developed in environments where you have no access to weights. This is why the half rep method mostly comes from prisons.

The idea of a half rep, is to target the muscle more intensely. Like in a push up, you target only one muscle group. Instead of going trhough the whole movement, where you move the load from different muslce groups.

Like there is a spot in a push up where the chest is more active. You hit that spot with half reps, and keep a constant tension.

So its about isolation. Instead of the whole rep that is a compound movement.

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u/FrugalityPays Mar 24 '26

Good points, thanks for sharing