low-budget poll results

[tenlegspider]

I wanted to know about your upper body strength because mcduff and I have different ideas about how fit most people are. He was never sufficiently impressed at my latest chin-up figure, the bastard, but we talking about The Krypton Factor and got something I could do an informal poll about

Comments

[tyopsqueene]

1. I had to train if I'm the person who forgot to say.

Secondly: tell McDuff it's a height thing, and being a shortarse he's not representative!

The Boy still finds pull ups difficult (he can only manage about 6 - 8 full arm ones) and he is pretty trained; he couldn't do one without training in the past. It's levers and bodyweight and stuff.

Sum: McDuff is wrong, and height and overall body mass is probably more important than gender anyway.

[meedja]

I'm shocked & amazed that you are qualified to call anyone a shortarse. Even when it's true.

[mcduff]

FINE!

Science wins again. *shakeyfist*

[littlegirltoast]

Your sample is too small to be statistically indicative of anything at all!

I think basically no-one can do pull-ups who doesn't train, and the statistical info here challenges that except that there is no statistical info here because 27 people wouldn't even be a representative sample of a high school graduating class.

I demand more research!

[shermarama]

People who don't train can do pull-ups if they're a combination of slim enough and short enough. I have a bit of a thing about not being able to do pull-ups even after lots of training, (because I'm a six foot two woman who weighs eighty kilos; even when I can lift noticeably more than your average woman in the gym, I still can't lift all of me with these long levers) and when this comes up in conversation with people sometimes people try it to see if they can (the Tube is sometimes involved) and I've met several men, ususally on the young and slender side, who've never been to a gym in their life and can still do a chin-up. I've never met a woman who tries to do chin-ups on the back of this, though, so I don't know how many women could.

But this also is nothing like statistically significant!

[piemancer]

I want to emphasize that, even with training (i could almost, almost bench press my weight when i was at top form), i couldn't do a chin up or pull up.

re: Training

[spritelord]

I've pretty much always been able to do them, but I was pretty active right up until I could afford to buy a computer.