Hohoho!
Hohoho! Easy!
Hohoho!
Hoho!
Have you ever wondered how strong you need to be in order to do the muscle-up?
In this video, I will be asking students from the UCSD calisthenics group to perform the
muscle-up and also measure their one-rep-max weighted pull-up.
We will try to find out how much percent of the weighted pull-up is required to achieve
the muscle-up.
I'm very excited and let's do it.
Yeah.
Yeah!
What's your name?
Ben.
Ben. Nice to meet you, Ben.
Let's do the muscle of attempt.
Okay.
Super clean, super easy for Ben.
I'm curious to see what his weighted pull-up number is, so how much do you weight?
163.
For the first attempt what weight do you want to do?
90 pounds.
Alright, let's do it. Easy.
How much weight do you want to add for the second attempt?
I think I'll go to 110.
Easy, easy.
How much more do you want to add?
I think I'll do 120.
Come on. Ben, come on.
Ah, that was a good attempt though.
What's your name?
I'm Henry.
Henry, nice to meet you and let's do the muscle- up attempt.
Oh, nice!
Alright, simple.
How much do you weight?
150.
So now we'll do the weighted pull-up.
Nice.
That counts.
That's good.
95.
Oh, does that count?
It's hard to tell from this angle. Does that count, Derek?
That's good?
Okay, perfect!
That's good!
That's good, right?
Good?
Yea!
Nice!
Yo!
Alright, so we have our good friend Derek back in the channel.
Derek will be doing his first muscle-up attempt.
Alright, no surprise Derek crushes the muscle- up.
Alright, Derek, so for your first weighted pull-up attempt, what would the weight be?
I think I'll start with 90.
By the way, Derek, how much do you weight?
I weigh 155.
90 pounds.
Too easy for Derek.
Alright, so attempt number two, 110.
Easy. Whoa. Look at Derek.
Derek's third attempt is gonna be 125 and if he's able to do it that would be his personal
PR.
Come on.
Ah.
That was a good attempt, though.
What's your name?
Andrey.
Alright, nice to meet you, Andrey. Let's give us your best attempt on the muscle-up.
Oh!
Hohoho.
You actually did it.
How much do you weight?
192.
First attempt by Andrey,100 pounds.
Come on.
Oh, almost.
Second attempt by Andrey, 90 pounds.
Oh, nice!
Good job!
Last attempt by Andrey, 95.
Let's go. Andrey.
Come on!
Almost!
Come on!
Nice!
What's your name?
Hieu.
Nice to meet you and let's do your muscle- up attempt.
Hohoho, clean!
Wow, nice job.
And by the way, how much do you weight?
144.
144. Alright, so how much weight is this?
70.
Oh!
Nice!
Is that good?
That's good.
Good!
Nice!
75. Alright, let's do it.
Nice!
Nice job.
80. Let's do it.
Let's go, Hieu.
Nice!
That's good.
What's your name?
Kaleb.
Kaleb, nice to meet you.
Alright, let's do the muscle-up.
Oh!
Pretty close.
Nice job.
How much do you weight?
202.
202. Alright. 45.
Almost, almost.，
Come on.
Oh.
I saw it.
Does that count?
I think it counts.
Come on.
Almost.
What's your name?
I'm Bryan.
Bryan, nice to meet you and let's do the muscle- up.
Hohoho.
Easy.
How much do you weight?
155.
155. Alright.
Come on.
That's good.
Good?
Yep.
Alright, 110.
Let's do it!
Come on!
Yay!
Alright, 115.
Come on!
Cheer him up!
Lightweight!
Oh!
Come on.
Oh!
Come on.
Ahh.
What's your name?
I'm Kuvam.
Nice to meet you and then let's do the muscle- up.
Oh, that's, that's pretty close. That's pretty close.
And before we do it, how much do you weight?
125.
125. Alright.
Come on!
Oh!
Ah, that's a good attempt, though.
Nice!
Nice job.
What's your name?
My name is Satvik.
Satvik, nice to meet you.
Alright, so let's do the muscle-up.
Hohoho!
Super close.
How much do you weight?
137.
137. Alright.
Oh, easy!
55.
Ha, easy!
80, alright.
80. Oh!
Good try, though.
What's your name?
My name is Harrison.
Harrison, nice to meet you.
Let's do the muscle-up.
Oh, almost.
What's your weight?
152.
First attempt on the weighted pull-up.
45!
Come on.
Nice!
55, let's do it!
Come on!
Oh.
That's a good attempt.
What's your name?
My name is Sanjay.
Sanjay, nice to meet you. Alright, let's do the muscle-up.
Oh.
Hoho!
Sanjay, 45.
Oh, easy, nice!
70.
Let's do it.
Come on.
Oh, that was just barely, so close!
So how much is this?
70. Let's do it.
Come on.
A little bit more.
Oh.
Good attempt though.
What's your name?
Garrett.
Alright, let's do the muscle-up.
Easy, easy, nice job!
100, alright.
Come on. Nice.
Alright, 110.
Oh!
Close.
Nice try, though.
Alright, Garrett, 105.
That's good, right?
Nice!
What's your name?
Ajani.
Nice to meet you, Ajani.
Hohohoho! There you go. Wow.
How much weight is this, by the way?
100. Okay, 100.
Let's do it.
Come on. Let's go.
Hohohohoho!
Easy!
125, exciting, 125.
Hohoho!
Wow!
How much are we looking at here?
145, wow!
Hohoho!
Body weight pull-up?
Body weight pull-up!
145, wow!
Hoho!
Give him a round of applause.
That is so impressive, man. That is so impressive.
This has to be more than bodyweight pullp-up, right?
Can you remind me of your bodyweight again?
153.
153, alright. Hohoho, 160. 1
Oh, ya, that's good?
That's good.
Hi, I am Jess.
Jess, nice to meet you. Let's do the muscle- up.
Oh, that's a good attempt.
45, let's do it.
Come on, oh.
Almost.
What's your name?
Sean.
Sean, alright. Let's do the muscle-up.
Oh, that was pretty close, though.
So Sean's first attempt, 45.
Nice job, nice.
60. Let's do it.
Let's go!
Nice!
That's good, right?
Nice to meet you.
What is... Nick.
Nick, alright.
Wow!
Super clean.
Alright, 90.
Hohoho!
Alright, 110. Let's do it.
Let's go.
Come on.
Up!
Ah, that's a good attempt, though.
100, yeah?
Let's do it.
That's good.
Nice, nice job!
What's your name?
Ibrahim.
Ibrahim, alright. Let's do the muscle-up.
Hohohoho! Look at that!
Explosive!
Wow.
100, alright.
Hoho!
115.
Exciting.
Yea.
Ya!
125, wow!
Alright.
Oh, that was close, though.
Almost.
What's your name?
I'm Spandan.
Spandan, alright. Let's do it.
Nice!
Alright, nice job.
Alright, so 45.
Let's go, Spandan.
Oh, too easy!
Alright, 65.
Ahh.
What's your name?
Wilson.
Wilson, alright.
Wilson, let's do the muscle-up.
Oh, wow!
Alright, 70.
Nice!
It's good?
95.
Come on.
Oh, almost!
100.
Let's go, Wilson.
Up, up, up!
Oh!
Nice to meet you.
What's your name?
Kevin.
Kevin, alright. Let's do the muscle-up.
How much weight is it?
It looks like 90 to me, right?
90. Let's do it.
Oh, easy.
All the weight plates, 115.
Up, up!
Oh, hohoho!
105.
Come on. Come on.
I'll do the muscle-up.
Wow, I'm super cold, though.
Oh, not super clean though. Oh, okay.
Alright, let's go!
Up!
Oh, wow, easy.
Yeah!
Okay.
Up!
Let's go.
Hoo!
Nice!
Huge thanks to the UCSD calisthenics group, TritonThenix, for the collab.
It was incredibly fun.
Now we will look at the data and try our best to answer how much weighted pull-up is required
to achieve the muscle-up.
Based on our data, for people that can't do the muscle-up, the highest weighted pull-up
number is 73% by Kevin
though Kevin actually successfully did the muscle-up after a few attempts off camera.
For people that can do the muscle-up, the lowest weighted pull-up number is 36% by Spandan.
In order to further understand what the data tells us, I decided to run the data through
a supervised learning algorithm called the Bayes classifier.
How the Bayes classifier works is beyond the scope of this video, so I will just show you
the results.
According to our data and the Bayes classifier, for most people, 54% weighted pull-up is required
to achieve the muscle-up.
Obviously, our data size is very small and the Bayes classifier isn't the best algorithm
out there, so this might not be super accurate.
If there's enough interest, I will spin up a website for you to submit your numbers,
so I can collect bigger data and run them through neural nets to get a more accurate
answer to how much weighted pull-up is required to achieve the muscle-up.
Comment below if you are interested in something like this.
Lastly, if you would like to support TritonThenix, especially if you are a UCSD alumni like
myself, consider checking out their GoFundMe page in the video description below. Yay! See you guys in the next video!