Nice! Definitely my max here. Hoo! Recently Micha Schulz, who is one of the regular YouTubers I
watch, announced that he is hosting the first ever online weighted calisthenics competition.
All participants will measure their max weighted pull-up, max weighted dip, and max weighted squat.
The score is the sum of all weights. The person with the highest score will be awarded with 1000
Euros. Obviously, it's impossible for me to win the competition, but I decided to enter
the competition because of two key reasons. First, everyone will be held to the same standard when
performing the exercise. Micha and his team will check the form of the exercise for every
submission. Therefore, there won't be a situation where we have to compare a solid 90-lb pull-up
with a kipping 100-lb pull-up. This is appealing to me because there are too many people commenting
and messaging me that the front lever is not that hard and I just need to train harder, but
when I tell them to show me a clip of their front lever, most of the time the form is terrible. If
I show that kind of form on YouTube and claim that I successfully learned the front lever,
I will be torn apart in the comments section. Second, Micha will release the statistics after
each season, so we can know our performance in our age group, our weight class, and so on.
These stats will be not only interesting but also way more accurate than the surveys done in Reddit
r/bodyweightfitness as the exercise performed is held to the same standard. The more people enter
the competition, the more accurate and interesting the stats will be, so I hope you will be motivated
to also enter the competition after watching this video. What's up guys? I am about to test
my 1 rep max for the king of weighted online weighed calisthenics competition, but first,
I am going to measure my weight. Alright, so we have a scale here. I am going to step onto it.
Alright, 131 lbs with a camera. I hadn't trained any weighted pull-ups for almost 2 years,
so I was not entirely sure of what to expect. My max was 108 lbs when I weighed 140 lbs, which is
77 percent of extra body weight. Now I weigh 131 lbs, assuming that I can still pull 77 percent of
extra body weight. In theory, I should be able to pull 100 lbs. I started with pulling 45 lbs first.
I am going to go with 100.
Oh what? What? I was disappointed that I wasn't able to pull 100 lbs. However, if I could pull
at least 90 lbs, it would be acceptable for me to upload this video, so I went for 90 lbs next.
To my great surprise, I still couldn't do it. Oh. I thought maybe the plates were too thick,
and they affected me, so I switched to thinner plates and tried two more times.
Oh. I can't. Whaaat? OK, so I gotta at least be able to do something, right? I gotta maybe drop
it to 80 or 85 something like that. I gotta be able to do 85, right? I went down to 85 lbs
and still couldn't do it. Then I went further down to 80 lbs. Ah, I can't. But I still couldn't do it.
I had to do one with 45 lbs to regain my confidence. I therefore decided to try 70
lbs. Alright, man, at least I can do 70 with the competition form.
OK, should we try 75 just for the sake of it? Yeah, let's try 75. I decided to go for 75 lbs.
OK, 75 with the competition form. Alright, and I was barely able to do it. I was also able
to dip 55 lbs, but I later realized that the form was invalid because my shoulders weren't
clearly below my elbows at the lowest point, so I had to redo it one more time.
I also was able to squat 95 lbs, which is a personal record for me.
I decided to train the weighted pull-up for a month instead of submitting my attempts right away
because I felt so embarrassed about being only able to pull up 75 lbs. It's hard to explain why
there is such a decline in my performance. One possible explanation is that the one-arm pull-up
and the weighted pull-up are still quite different from each other. Training the one-arm pull-up does
not mean getting stronger in the weighted pull-up. However, I believe the decline is most likely due
to my shift of attention to training the pull-up endurance. I made this decision because after
achieving the one-arm pull-up, coincidently I went to the FitExpo and did the pull-up challenge.
I ended up only being able to do just 15 reps, and a lot of people were interested to see me
increasing my pull-up reps. That means there were a few months when there was no high-intensity
pulling training for me. There was only endurance pulling training from the body weight pull-up
and finger strength training from rock climbing. In any case, the fact is that I lost my usual weighted
pull-up strength. I therefore paused my pull-up endurance training and started training the
weighted pull-up again. I trained, and trained, and trained. One month passed. When I retested my
one-rep max, I was able to improve 15 lbs and pull 90 lbs, but I was still unable to pull 100 lbs. I
will most likely have to deload and start another training cycle to reach 100 lbs, which will
probably take another month or two. Since we have already been over halfway through the first season
of the competition, I want to get this video out now, instead of waiting to upload till the tail
end of the season because I want to see you enter this competition as well. The information of the
competition will be in the video description below. Now you guys tell me, do you prefer
to see me retrain the weighted pull-up back to 100 lbs, or do you prefer to see me achieve 20
pull-ups in a row? Definitely comment below and let me know. Thanks for watching. If you enjoy
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