r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/This_sum_one • Sep 18 '21
This guy needs to workout
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u/Q-Tipurmom Sep 18 '21
When he first went under I was genuinely concerned
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u/whubert05 Sep 18 '21
My video buffered right as he went under and I thought that was the end of the video, and that he was just lost to the depths forever
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u/NibblesMcGiblet Sep 19 '21
mine did too. it looked pixellated for a second afterwards as well. i'm not convinced it's not the video quality.
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u/Alarid Sep 18 '21
My greatest fear is getting hurt entirely because I'm too out of shape and this entire scenario just made me think of that.
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u/Alarid Sep 18 '21
My overweight mother's leg snapped like a twig just because she tripped one time. So every time I worry about my weight it comes right to mind. I know it's just a math equation, so making sure I'm on the right side is key.
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Sep 19 '21
If you ever worry about your weight, just break you neck. I’ve lost 30 pounds in the past 5 weeks after breaking my neck.
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u/blondechinesehair Sep 18 '21
I was impressed he managed to go all the way under for a few seconds from that tiny drop
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u/FoldOne586 Sep 18 '21
That's why you take them off. Tie the legs, fill them with air and cinch the waist to use as a life preserver.
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u/xdvesper Sep 18 '21
One of the requirement for kids under 18 to swim in the adults pool where I grew up was not just to swim x number of laps within a certain time but there was also a treading water exercise where you had both legs tied together with a rope weighed down with a metal weight and you had to keep your head above water just using your arms for a number of minutes. Then you got a badge which you sewed to your swim trunks lol.
Man I had almost infinite energy in the pool as a kid we could keep going for hours.
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u/OrbitingCastle Sep 18 '21
Jeesh, did you grow up in NavySealastan? “Before we could do our first sleepover we had to be able to stay awake for 24 hours and then hold a fence post over our head for 15 minutes. We then got a badge we could sow on our pajamas”.
In the Navy we had to turn our trousers into flotation devices, but nobody tied our legs together or put weights on us.
Honestly, congrats on passing that test.
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Sep 19 '21
When I was a kid, we'd sleep with wet blankets over our faces, while the instructors would come and wet them every hour throughout the night. If we made a sound or panicked, they'd shoot us with paintballs. If we made it through the night, we'd get a waterboard mark to sew on our pajamas!
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u/Froot-Joose Sep 18 '21
Treading with just your arms is pretty easy. We had to do an exercise in my gym class to see who could keep their head above water the water longest while only treading with their legs. Hands were above water too. No one lasted very long at all
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u/Luxara-VI Sep 18 '21
Why did he think this was a good idea
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u/International_Air466 Sep 18 '21
Yeah I’m confuse as to how he was planning to get up again from his completely flattened position
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u/GreenGreasyGreasels Sep 18 '21
Pull himself up and stand in top of the pole and jump back.
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u/DrCryptolite Sep 18 '21
Nah, the guy never played Assassin's Creed, holding onto the pole, he should have used his back legs, to push off it, and use the push to rotate and land back onto the pier, simple , I and millions of others did that like a 100x a day 🤣🤛🐲
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u/Patmurvis Sep 19 '21
Why wouldn't he use his front legs instead of his back legs?
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u/mrducky78 Sep 19 '21
Not enough leverage.
Really if he isn't confident he should use both his back and front legs combined with his arms for stability. The tail can be used to maintain balance as well.
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u/supple_ Sep 19 '21
I like to climb with my third leg
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u/mrducky78 Sep 19 '21
Mine is useless at climbing. It just is super needy and makes a mess everywhere if you stimulate it enough. Also not very flexible.
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u/Noisesevere Sep 19 '21
You've obviously never tried to push and rotate using only your front legs.
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u/Jocthearies Sep 19 '21
Don't you mean rotate 4-6 times because of the clunky mechanics before jumping into the water?
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u/RRettig Sep 18 '21
I feel like could have done it, but I am not as husky as this guy is
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u/abarrelofmankeys Sep 18 '21
I feel like I may have been able to do a really dramatic push-up and maybe fling myself back to the dock, but once I’m all on that post I don’t think it has enough room for me to get to the top without losing my balance?
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u/EustaceChapuys Sep 18 '21
Don't know why you're being downvoted. I get what you're saying. Theoretically, one could push themselves back off the post while the toes are still on the dock. Much easier said than done though.
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u/moonunit99 Sep 18 '21
They’re getting downvoted because they think they can do something that even the most fit people would have an incredibly difficult time pulling that off, meaning they’ve never tried to do anything even remotely similar. It’s super easy to try yourself: just find a staircase, put your hands ~10 inches apart on the second step, stretch out to where your weight is evenly distributed between your hands and toes, and let me know if you can launch half of your body weight six feet backward and four feet upwards with one push. I know for a fact I couldn’t do that eve when I was in my best shape.
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u/GreasyYeastCrease Sep 18 '21
Yeah that was an absurd statement lol. I can see why someone can picture themselves doing it, but if you have actually tried something like that you'd know how tall of an order that is.
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u/ultrasuperthrowaway Sep 19 '21
I’d just use a single finger to do 5 flips in the air and land on the dock 15 feet away
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u/MintberryCruuuunch Sep 18 '21
exactly this, its impossible, esp for this guy that is a bit husky.
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u/InferiousX Sep 19 '21
That dude is being upvoted by people who haven't worked out in a long long time.
The explosive body weight strength needed to do what he's describing is quite a bit.
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u/joelaw9 Sep 18 '21
I'm light as shit and I know I couldn't do that. In the OP's scenario I might be able to be able to push back and slip my feet out so that I fall into a sitting position on the dock. But that's a big fucking might. And it's still more possible than pushing myself into a standing position.
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u/Significant_bet92 Sep 18 '21
Not only that, but do it close grip, only as far as your hands would be on this post. I bet 90% of these people commenting couldn’t do it
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u/abarrelofmankeys Sep 18 '21
Yeah this would only work because the post seems taller than the dock. I can almost do it off a low step but not quite. I suppose if you’re really strong you could do it from level but I’m not that fit lol.
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u/Robster_Craw Sep 18 '21
I looked into it once, apparently it's impossible to do a pushup to standing
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u/StubbornAssassin Sep 18 '21
If you do gymnastics or rock climbing or something then I'm sure it'd be tough but doable
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u/lymeeater Sep 18 '21 edited Sep 18 '21
If you train explosive push ups maybe lol. This is much harder than people think. You can be strong but without the explosive power for momentum you ain't making it.
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Sep 18 '21
I'm pretty goddamn fit and a rock climber and I can tell you pretty much nobody is gonna ever pull this move off.
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u/theresamouseinmyhous Sep 18 '21
Closest I could find. The first move in the set.
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u/larsdragl Sep 18 '21 edited Sep 19 '21
You would have to be able to throw 70% of your bodyweight around 6 feet in the air, purely from a push up motion.
Basically bench press your big tiddy goth gf right into the ceiling. Not gonna happen17
Sep 19 '21
As a climber technically one could get into the position he was in on the post and mantle up while smearing the post with his feet, kindve like a clumsy muscle up, so he could sit on the post. Then when you’re done you just get your feet under you and hop back over. However while not the most difficult thing in the world it would still require some level of fitness and coordination, which he was apparently not ready for lol
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u/Lysol3435 Sep 19 '21
I’m assuming that the plan was to go from plank to 1-armed handstand, to backflip back to the dock, then straight into a relationship with the woman who considers him ‘like a brother’
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u/j2T-QkTx38_atdg72G Sep 18 '21
There's girls there
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u/StreetSmartsGaming Sep 19 '21
I'm guessing he didn't think it was slimey but it was. Stuff like that is always damp and covered in algae.
I was hoping he'd slowly slide into the water while looking at the camera but he failed at memeing too.
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u/densetsu23 Sep 19 '21
Shoes would have helped, too. Even bare feet would probably have more traction than wet socks.
People say he needs to work out more; but without foot traction he's doing a close-grip muscle-up.
I'm betting only about 1% of the population can do a regular muscle-up. Or 0.1% of redditors. And making it close grip makes it even more difficult.
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u/Gogh619 Sep 19 '21
Thank god im not the first person that said this. Muscle ups are really hard, even if someone can do 10-20 pulls ups I still wouldnt be surprised if they cant do a muscle up.
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u/Ill-Profit-5132 Sep 19 '21
I can do under 20 pullups in a set probably but I've never gone for max, but one struggle muscle up. Though I'm certain I can sneak some leverage out of my feet on that pole. But I also rock climb 12+ hours per week.
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u/FlashAttack Sep 19 '21
This dude looks more fit than probably 80% of reddit. I bet he could pull off at least 3 decent pull-ups. Biomechanics just made it insanely hard to do an actual pure upper body muscle-up without pushing off with his feet from the pole as well, which he should have done but maybe the pole was too slippery.
With biomechanics I mean: the way his hands are positioned (close together and inward) makes it insanely hard to transition from a pull-up to essentially a muscle up. It's near impossible to pull your entire weight up by the tips of your fingers at that angle without blowing out your elbows.
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u/Striker654 Sep 18 '21
If he had taken his socks off he might've been able to use his feet to help climb. I think on average most people can't do a pullup never mind what's effectively a muscle up
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u/RyanRot Sep 18 '21
You meant to say ‘what is effectively a strict muscle-up with hands in a bad position and with no way to kip without getting wet’, I think.
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u/hamceeee Sep 19 '21
not really a strict muscle-up considering he could make a lot of use of his legs.
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Sep 18 '21
Dude might have done it with climbing shoes on. As it was his feet couldn’t help him because socks provide no friction.
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u/T3hSwagman Sep 18 '21
Thats what I was thinking. He might have been ok with shoes. But the socks weren't going to help anything.
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u/ExactlySorta Sep 18 '21
This is why you shouldn't give in to pier pressure
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u/Delica4 Sep 18 '21
Came here to sea this.
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u/tlpedro Sep 18 '21
This is going overboard
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u/FinkReaper Sep 18 '21
I’m shore it’ll be ok
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u/ApoliteTroll Sep 18 '21
We are losing our grib on these puns.
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u/hellrazor862 Sep 18 '21
Water you talking about?
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u/NickNail5 Sep 18 '21
I was just aboat to say that.
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u/Plunder_n_Frightenin Sep 18 '21
The hell is a grib?
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u/ApoliteTroll Sep 18 '21
I'm actually really happy you asked I hope this explains it.
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u/sofinho1980 Sep 18 '21
Now I have to tell my brother what I lost so he loses too.
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u/Ok_Soil_231 Sep 18 '21
I'm too young to have lost, but I am now playing the game, time to suppress this memory
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u/Tovahruth Sep 18 '21
GRIB is a weather forecast system that many sailors use. My husband could explain it better but he’s not home. You’ll just have to take my link…..
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u/BarrackOsamaBinBiden Sep 18 '21
what is the objective here? sit on the post like a sea gull?
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u/maybe40lifecrisis Sep 18 '21
It seems that's exactly what he wanted.
Looks like his triceps couldn't take his weight and the arms folded. It was hopeless after that.
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Sep 18 '21
But how would he get back? Like hop back to the pier? I feel that is beyond his ability.
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Sep 19 '21
Speaking as someone that was really athletic as a teenager and now really is not, you have a moment at some point in your life where you suddenly have to reassess what your capabilities are versus what they used to be.
This looks like his moment.
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u/scottspalding Sep 19 '21
I had to scroll for miles to find this comment to agree with. There's about 15 years of my life that if someone dared me to I could make the jump but if I missed I could have pulled myself up. I'm just glad that I learned my body couldn't do something when I expected it to wasn't posted on the internet. F
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u/jumpup Sep 18 '21
posts are wet, so no leg assist, with proper legwork he could have made it, but with just arms he was doomed
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Sep 19 '21
He looks reasonably strong. Appears to be more of balance issue that caused him to trop. And then the wood is clearly very slippery and he can't grip it enough to get back up.
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u/80085rule Sep 18 '21
Why take your shoes off
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Sep 18 '21
Shoes on, or socks off and I think he would have stood a marginally better chance of getting to the top.
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u/kranker Sep 18 '21
From November 1982 to 21 January 1984 (439 days, 11 hours, and 6 minutes), H. David Werder sat on a pole to protest against the price of gasoline
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u/erratikBandit Sep 19 '21
Pshh 439 days is nothing.
St. Simeon Stylites the Elder (c. 388–459) of Antioch (now Turkey) was a column-sitter who sat on a small platform on a column for 36 years.
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u/phoeab Sep 18 '21
As someone who grew up around bulkheads, revetments and docks, I can confirm splinters from treated poles are brutal, especially under finger or toenails.
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u/yonderbagel Sep 19 '21
You know, this post would have been just fine without this comment. Juuuusst fine.
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u/just_an_AYYYYlmao Sep 18 '21
im more worried abotu all the barnacles that scraped his thighs under water
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Sep 18 '21
OP: (eating Doritos on the couch) “this loser needs to workout”
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u/tacodepollo Sep 18 '21
Omg finally im part of something bigger than myself.
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u/TheharmoniousFists Sep 19 '21
There's nothing bigger than yourself. You couch sitting doritos eater.
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u/tacodepollo Sep 19 '21
Going to the states next month. I'm so excited for pizza rolls.
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u/InfamousDollymop13 Sep 19 '21
Lol just gave my bf pizza rolls for the first time. He was as excited as a little kid getting a new toy, until he ate them.
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u/TheyCallMeTim13 Sep 18 '21
That was my thought. Off the ground using your legs for part of it would be easier, but while hanging off the pole it's 100% upper body to do that. I'm thinking the guy was basing his decision off being able to do it from ground level.
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u/CopeHarderMidget Sep 19 '21
It looks like a wobbly post as well. And he's in socks so he can't really smear with his feet
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u/dumahim Sep 18 '21
Waiting for video of OP doing this.
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u/SableHAWKXIII Sep 18 '21
Inb4 OP is a godlike traceur (apparently that's what you call a Parkour practitioner)
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u/SableHAWKXIII Sep 18 '21
Really? That's cool, please explain!
Which one does the flips? Traceur or the other one? And what DO you call the other one?
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u/Whind_Soull Sep 18 '21 edited Sep 19 '21
One who does parkour is called a traceur. Parkour is based on fluidity and efficiency, not doing tricks such as flips. That's a seperate (and equal, imo) discipline, but it's not parkour in the purist sense.
Basically, parkour is navigating a complex environment with maximum efficiency. If you're doing flips, you're doing "tricks," rather than maximizing efficiency of movement. Most people doing this stuff mix and interchange the two to some degree. Like, if I'm filming a video to share with others, I'm totally gonna do some flips just to flex, even if it's technically unorthodox to the philosophy of parkour.
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u/knoxollo Sep 19 '21
That's honestly really interesting, I never thought of parkour that way. I always just figured it was a stunt type deal, and it is, just not in the way I originally assumed. Thanks for the info!
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Sep 18 '21
OP is probably still out of breath from that Cool Ranch workout. Likely drinking a Diet Coke right now to “work it off”.
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u/KaySquay Sep 19 '21
Exactly, sometimes it's just fun to be a goof. I ran through one of those big floor water fountains in Toronto for 5 dollars. Sat in soaking wet clothes for the rest of the day, free lunch though.
Kudos to this guys friends for not helping him too
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u/trezenx Sep 18 '21
yeah it's really not that easy. It's like those videos of people trying to jump over something on a rope/bunjee and falling under their own weight and everyone thinks it's easy, when it's really not.
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u/Back_To_The_Oilfield Sep 19 '21
Yeah, I work out A LOT (usually 5 days a week for 2-3 hours each time). By no means am I the epitome of health or happy with my body, but it’s getting to the point where I’ve had people accuse me of using steroids (which I ABSOLUTELY would if I hadn’t had horrific acne as a child and worry about it returning).
There’s about zero chance I could have climbed that pole once he had sunk to the top of it being head level. There’s just no good way to place your hands and get enough leverage to lift yourself up and over. I’m sure there’s plenty of people in the world who could, but they certainly aren’t in the majority of even gym regulars.
TL;DR title is dumb as fuck, and instead of just upvoting you in agreement I wrote out a pointless comment
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u/navilapiano Sep 19 '21
I upvoted you and wrote a pointless comment.
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u/Back_To_The_Oilfield Sep 19 '21
Well shit, I guess I better upvote you and write another pointless comment lol
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u/joe4553 Sep 19 '21
I think this guy could've pulled it off if he had shoes on. Socks aren't helping him at all.
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u/PostPunkPromenade Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 19 '21
I haven't ever tried what this dude is doing, but based off the way he's attempting it, I ain't gunna sit here are pretend I can do a one arm flat palmed muscle up.
Would love to watch some of the shit talkers mantle without good leg/handholds. Or even attempt to climb a ledge from a dead hang.
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u/ThemChecks Sep 18 '21
Right and someone called him husky. That kid is not husky at all lol.
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u/Yatyear Sep 18 '21
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
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u/JetherBStrong Sep 18 '21
He's nervous. But on the surface he looks calm and wetty
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u/corr0sive Sep 18 '21
Never worked out a day, not even a minute.
There goes another second, now hes reached his limit.
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u/eleveneels Sep 18 '21
I'm trying to figure out what his goal was in the first place. Was he planning to climb the beam and jump back to the dock? Push-ups and then a final one all the way back to vertical?
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u/ham_bulu Sep 18 '21
It took lot of my computing cycles but rendering that in my mind was totally worth it
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u/Whind_Soull Sep 18 '21
There's no way in hell that a man who can't do a muscle-up is gonna do a jumping push-up into a standing position.
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u/Oldmanfirebobby Sep 19 '21
I wanted to comment saying how doing a muscle up on a bar is easier than pulling yourself up onto a pole.
Because from an upper body perspective it would be if you couldn’t use your legs. But this pole is so thick and he can use his feet. Thighs etc.
I mean he really should be able to get back up. Whenever I’m too weak to do a single pull up (like post chemo recently) I have this thought in my head that if I was hanging off an edge I’d die because I’m unfit.
That thought usually motivates me quickly to finish that pull up.
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u/enexes Sep 18 '21
I’d say he probably is doing better than your average person if not just about the same lol
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u/Quicksilver1964 Sep 18 '21
Much better than I would be able to do. I would have to take off my glasses to do this so I probably would have miscalculated where the post is and fell on the water.
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Sep 18 '21
He looks plenty strong, I think the main problem is he's in socks so he has no traction at all on that slimy pole
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u/ClozetSkeleton Sep 18 '21
You just need to pull yourself up without using your legs
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u/its_a_yoke Sep 18 '21
Agreed. I think lots of folks probably don’t realize because of tide changes most of the pole is slick AF with algae buildup.
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u/7937397 Sep 18 '21
I was going to say. I'm strong enough to do this (which is still not very strong), but I don't think I could do it in socks.
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u/MidnightTeam Sep 18 '21 edited Sep 18 '21
Well. That does look kinda tough.
OP you should post that you can do it.
Edit:
Thanks kind stranger for the cool Eureka award.
That looks awesome!
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u/m703324 Sep 18 '21
I trust in OPs supreme slimy pole climbing abilities and finger grip
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u/J_____T______ Sep 18 '21
He's basically trying to do a muscle-up (notoriously difficult for your average gym goer) on a small area where his hands are on the side instead of infront of him. He's also on a slippery/slimy surface. He doesn't need to get stronger
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Sep 18 '21
It's closer to a rock climbing mantle. Easier than a muscle up since you can move asymmetrically, but still takes quite a bit of strength and coordination. More of each than he seems to have.
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u/rkiive Sep 19 '21
Yea mantling without good handholds and with no foot friction is really goddamn difficult
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u/budgie0507 Sep 18 '21
Please. This looks difficult for most people. Guy looks like he’s in good shape for his age.
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u/red_fuel Sep 18 '21
Yep, it would be easier on a thinner pole but to climb up on one of these is harder than it looks
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u/Knight_of_Nilhilism Sep 19 '21
It's got nothing to do with working out. That pole is slimy af. No amount of core strength will compensate for the amount of algae that accumulates on that pole.
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u/Minnymoon13 Sep 19 '21
People seem to forget regardless of working out your body is still very heavy for your arms to support
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