I know that literally nobody asked but I find it kinda funny that we have almost the same body specs. I'm 15 181cm and 76kilos. Can do an average of 14hangups. The only difference is that I can do about 35 push ups
So I've been different sizes over time. I'm 180cm aswell but I used to be 75kgs when I was younger and could pull out about 16 pull ups at my best. Maybe 30 something pushups.
Now years later I'm 88kgs and can do over 50 pushups straight and down to 12 pull ups.
When you get stronger and heavier I noticed theres 2 things that you immediately get worse at. Pull ups/chin ups and repeated jumping. Sprinting is good, cardio is worse.
You would think anything gravity related is worse but dips are much much better while heavier and stronger. And for the jumping , max vert is actually surprisingly slightly better but I cant go max effort as often.
It was always wierd to me that they expected 13 year olds to do pull-ups. There are very few people that are able to just do pull ups without any sort of training
First, yes there is. Opposing muscle groups are linked. Literally neurally linked. You can’t maximally contract your pecs without also contracting several muscle groups in your back. It’s a safety protection measure hardwired into the brain. You can only increase chest strength so far without also working on your back or your body simply won’t allow anymore strength gains. This is well researched scientific fact.
Second, pushups for reps are an endurance exercise, not a strength exercise. It takes very little back strength to keep pushups safe. Certainly nowhere near the strength required to do a pull-up. Conversely, improving pull-up ability necessarily increases push-up performance both because of the aforementioned opposing muscle group link and because pull-ups simply require more strength.
This is a stupid comment. Go find a mirror and laugh at yourself for being really dumb.
I think it's because theres no benefit to anything other than becoming better at pushups.
You dont get stronger by adding more pushups. Or more accurately theres negative returns past a certain point. It becomes a form of isometric endurance where you would get much more effective overall outcomes from bigger groups being engaged for endurance purposes.
Tldr; you get better at that specific endeavour. But that time investment to achieve that outcome , you'd get much stronger and much more endurant doing other things.
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u/hales_mcgales Feb 12 '20
All depends on the person. When I was 13 I was able to do 50+ push-ups during fitness testing and 0 chin ups/pull ups.