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I think requiring video evidence just makes this way too much effort for most people. I get that as a youtuber you do this all the time but there is just no way in hell I am setting up a camera to film myself in the gym or asking someone to do it for me for that matter. I think it'd be better to keep it simple, stick to numbers, and when sifting through mark suspicious entries and outliers.
My weight is 56 kg i can do weigted pullups with 11 kg weight , 7 repitations ? So how much bodyweight % is that for me? Like how much% weight I'm pulling?
I think your should use every data for the training algorithm , e. g. bodyweight too. It is a good experiment, but I think it is really hard to find a precise value. E.g. If I do squat, I will have more muscles on my legs, which is not useful for the muscle up. And squat muscles are basically bodyweight. So I need even more on the shoulders to counter balance the ballast muscles. In ideal cases the person who can do the muscle up has a good upper body, with relative "low" lower body and a low overall bodyweight and a low body fat value.
Would also love a similar test for the One arm pull up! Would probably be alot harder to find enough people locally but the crowdsourcing idea should work!
I think the main problem for doing a similar test for the one arm pull up is that the assumption of the correlation coefficient between the one arm pull up and weighted pull up being close to 1 like the situation of the muscle up and weighted pull up most likely isn't true, so it will be harder to infer the data and draw conclusions.
I think Matthew Zlat, who excels at both OAP and weighted pullups put a prerequisite of being able to pullup %50 of bw for 5-6 reps before you start training for OAP. Maybe that helps.
@@ratman1201 yeah if you google 100% body weight pull up. Elite calisthenics athletes are pulling their body weight. 200% would have been 300 pounds on top of his body weight. 156+156. This is not 200% aka double.
@@wellutopia2237 Math must not be your forte. He didn't say anything about a percent pullup (which frankly, is just semantics). He said he's pulling double his body weight. Bro weighs 153 lbs and he strapped on an additional 160 lbs for a total of 313 lbs. That's more than double his body weight he's pulling.
I was part of a calisthenics club like this in college and it’s almost like a way smaller unique community like climbing so it was cool to see them all get to be part of a big youtuber’s video and show their skills
I think the main critique I'd have is a lot of the participants could have easily done more than one muscle-up, so comparing a 1RM weighted pull-up doesn't tell us too much. For example, in the case of Andrey, his muscle-up was a 1RM, so using his 1RM weighted pull-up as a proxy was more accurate IMO. I think the best way to design it would be to have everyone do AMRAP muscle-ups and then match those reps for he max test (eg if someone could do 5 muscle-ups in a row, then test their 5RM weighted pull-ups). And ideally they'd have a good amount of rest in between the two sets, possibly even 24h-48h if possible.
As a scientifist I absolutely agree. But purely as a viewer interested in getting a subjective guesstimate of the correlation I'm pretty happy with geek's experimental design :)
What I really loved a bout this video is that it gave me a very concrete strenght goal to work towards before starting muscle up specific training. It makes it seem a lot more attainable!
I am not quite sure about that. For me this numbers do not work. People in this video were all very lightweight and usually calisthenic people do not train legs properly. Iweigh around 80kg, which is 175lbs. My max pull up is 95kg x 4, so maybe i could do a 1 rep max pull up with 100kg, or 105kg tops! My rep max is far away from 150% body weight, but in contrary i have very heavy legs (because i have a powerlifting background). I have just about enough strength to do a more or less clean muscle up on the bar (with almost no swing).
@xIPsychox I'd say the muscle up isn't just about pure strength but power, so we need to take into account the speed at which you're able to pull yourself up. Training your bodyweight pull ups explosively will allow you to use your incredible strength to fly over the bar. You won't be very explosive at first but it's all about intent. Even with weighted pull up.
Fun fact : I just recently (2-3 weeks ago) was able to do a single clean muscle-up (no kipping), and my 1 rep max on the pull-up falls in the 50%-55% range of my bodyweight.
I do 3 muscles ups but with keeping, my max 1 rep is +35% of body weight. I'm begginer+ but I'm still grinding to clean muscle ups, human flag and the final goal this year one arm pull up
you are an inspiration eventhough you are not the strongest guy in youtube you undoubtly are one of the cleverest one. You taught me things that has lead to approach my trainings to a scientific knowledge which gives an assurance of what im doing is the thing I have to do to pursue my goals. Sorry for my english and thanks you a lot.
this is a great video and matches what it took for me to get a muscle up. i am 200lbs and had to get to doing a 100lb weighted pull up for 3 reps to be able to muscle up
This is SUCH A GREAT IDEA. Because the muscleup is kind of a yes or no thing even though there are so many degrees of "cleanness" with crossfit being the worst. But with a weighted pullup you can guess how close you are to getting the muscleup. And that is so valuable. You are the first person to connect the dots in this way that I've seen. Isn't it nice being first? :) There's another tool people can use and that's the assisted dip machine except you use it standing up. There are different models/designs of these so unless you're a tiny person you'll want one that tends to be taller than average. But again you can see if you're getting close by how much weight you need to help you. As the machine is in front of you you can't swing so that helps us focus on form. And form is always good. This machine is especially good at working at wrist strength and flexibility as you can experiment with different degrees of false grip and do it slowly as well.
pretty interesting. i think i did my 1st one when i could do a ~45 lbs weighted pullup (+32% BW, 63kg at the time) though the form was pretty disgusting. i chicken winged pretty bad. congrats on a 40kg pullup tho! i'm working on getting to 36kg on mine.
I walked by triton thelix every day, and I recognized a bunch of these ppl from my classes. They are all nerds, most people in the school were, so am I, I really loved this video lol.
In my personal experience, i was able to bang out 12 reps on muscle ups but only able to do a 20 pound weighted pull up at the time. I think you dont have to be able to do any weighted pull ups to get your first muscle up. You just need to be able to do 10-15 body weight reps. And then you can practice form with a resistance band for assistance. Thats how i got my first.
I haven't done a muscle up yet, but can do 12+ pull ups (didn't test my max in a while). The movement of muscle up is more complex than the just pull up and dips, it's the transition from one to another that creates the difficulty. I think that the idea with resistance bands is great to learn it and progress with it, most likely will try it out myself :)
How much did you weigh and were you using the momentum of a crossfitter or standard muscle up form or strict muscle only muscle up? I agree once I can do about 12 reps or so of pull ups I can do a muscle up, but the first time I did it, I was a lot stronger, it took awhile to get the form but then I could do it when I got weaker. not a slow muscle up.
@@matemindak384 i could do a few reps with 20lbs at the time, probably 5. But it was a struggle. I dont think there is much carry over from muscle ups to weighted pull ups tbh. Ofc there is some but not as much as youd think. Being able to do a muscle up just means you’re getting explosive with your own bodyweight, doesn’t necessarily mean you will be able to move more weight once it’s added.
Makes sense, cool vid. the two barometers I most commonly see used for a weighted pullup are either 50% BW or two plates for reps. good goals to go for.
When I was climbing a lot, I weighed 205 lbs. I could do a 150 weighted chinup and could climb V8. Never got close to a clean muscle up after months of trying.
Damn this is very interesting! Would love for you to do a crowdsourced version to expand the sample size! I'll test my max pull up next workout, where should I send the result?
You can comment your result here for now! I have python code that extracts and parses TH-cam comments. If this video get 100k+ views, I will spin up a website to properly collect more data.
@@GeekClimber Heyy :D Looks like the video crushed the 100k views goal! Are you still considering setting up a website? Anyway here's my stats: height: 6'2'' / 188cm Weight: 191 punds / 87kg 1 rep max: 49.6 pounds / 22.5 kg (25.8% of bodyweight) Muscle ups: 0
Such a simple yet great and educational video! really loved this! Especially as i started weighted pull ups last month, just got 50% weighted this week (40kg, 79.6kg bw!)! would be cool to be able to do a muscle up at some point!
@@kamatayon6380 I think it might be cuz i’ve attempted pull ups since i was 20kg heavier than i am right now, so it translated to weighted pull ups perhaps? Still need to lose about 8kg weight, so i’ve essentially done weighted pull ups by default all the time lmao
This was really cool and tracks with what one of the old heads on reddit did a few years ago. They polled and tested people at their gym that could do a muscle up or oa pull up and compared that to how much weight they could successfully add to a pull up. I remember 60-66% extra weight was the point they saw people able to do these advanced moves. In your case, I especially like the extra statistics and seeing their form/weights, it adds a lot of validity and hope for heavier guys like myself
There's probably a bit of correlation bias, since I assume that most of the people you've tested have trained both the weighted pullup as well as the muscle up, and those that have trained longer both have a higher weighted pullup and are also much more likely to achieve the muscle up. So it seems reasonable that the actually % of bodyweight needed is a bit lower than 54%. However, it's still great to have a good baseline.
Since I last watched this video I have improved my weighted pullup to 52% of my body weight up from about 38% and I can also muscle up way cleaner now. I was able to do a muscle up when I could only do 38% but there was a little kipping involved. I would say your analysis of the data is spot on. If anyone achieves a 54% of bodyweight weighted pullup, they can surely do a muscle up if their technique is correct.
same. i can do 20 pull ups but cant dont come even close to doing a muscle up. best part was that these guys are close to my bodyweight (160lb). now i have a clear goal. have to be able to pull 110-120lb weighted pull up.
@@dnegel9546 late reply, but for reference I weigh 170 and can only do 50 lb weighted pullups for sets of 6 reps, that's probably just 85lb 1 rep max. But I can do muscle ups. There's a technique to it. Some of the people in this video would be able to do a muscle up if their technique was more co-ordinated. It's pulling from a more diagonal body angle instead of the more vertical angle of pullups.
I did my first muscle up today and I gotta say skill is much more important than strength. Since I can only pull up plus 1/3 my bodyweight but once I realize the technics that I've been doing wrong, I corrected it and easily get my first (strict) muscle up. Hope this help you guys with ur training
It's true and false at the same time the more form is close to a strict muscle up, the more strength you need to be able to do a muscle up, but if you don't care about strict form you can kip and then it's more about having the good technic than strength.
@@just-a-random-guy199 I mean after I know exactly how to to a muscle up and do one with weird from, I know that it's not that I was lack of strength but technics. In the meantime, I already have enough strength for a strict muscle up because i did one 5 minutes after my first weird form muscle up
as a counterpoint i will say that raw strength is still particularly effective, decided to give muscle ups a shot several days ago and got it within the first 10 attempts. for context, i've hovered around being able to do at least 1 arm pullups for the past 5 years or so, and can typically get rather high on normal pullups. unsure of what my max weighted pullup is but it's likely quite substantial but to be fair i wasn't able to do the muscle ups without some sort of slight swing, so i can entirely see why technique is still important
For pull ups I usually find more useful to do a 2RM test. When you do the 1RM lots of people tend to get some sort of assistance from the legs or start the repetition with the arms slightly bent due to their height vs the height of the bar. Because of that they end up cheating the hardest part of the movement that is when your arms are fully straight! Only a couple of guys started from a deadhang position and did the proper 1RM. That's why the 2RM is usually better, you might cheat the first one, but you are definitely not cheating rep #2. Also besides the model being old as you mentioned, the other big thing that doesn't make this whole test very accurate is the form of the muscle up. Most people ended up using technique and momentum for the muscle up and only a few guys did the strict form with pure strength. That's why you got the guy with low 1RM VS bodyweight % being able to do it. He used heaps of momentum! Anyway it is good to have some rough data as a general guidance!! Good job 👊👍
It's almost impossible to quantify the amount of kip for the muscle up. Almost every supposedly "strict" muscle up still have some amount of kip from the hip hinge. I can only either allow people to do any kinds of muscle up, or the "perfect" zero kip muscle up without hip hinge. Obviously, I opt for "any" muscle up, because if you nitpick hard, even a lot of TH-cam experts can't perform the "perfect" zero kip muscle up. As for the weighted pull-up, the hardest part is the top, not the dead hang. The dead hang is the hardest for the weighted chin-up. So I think even if some people didn't start from the dead hang, the numbers shouldn't deviate too much from their max if they did it from the dead hang.
@@GeekClimber do you think absolute bodyweight is a factor, on top of the BW% strength ? E.g. apply a factor between 0.9-1.1 to the final score based on absolute weight?
Achieved my first clean muscle up no kip recently once I was doing 40lbs (18kg) for 3x8. And regularly practiced explosive high pulls each pull day during warm ups to waist/belly button level.
Interesting video. My one critisism would be that looks like some of the people doing the muscle-up had a few reps left in the tank while the weighted pull up was a truer max effort.
I would definitely submit my weighted pullup if you collect it. This is definitely cool info to have, but people shouldn't be completely deterred by the data, seen as people work differently and these are often generalizations.
Awesome video! One thing I have noticed is that you have a weakness in your left shoulder. At 13:30 you can see your left shoulder rising when doing the pullup which tells me you have trouble retracting that scapula.
This is good video for me because I can easily do 10 pull-ups now so I bought a weighted vest because my goal is a muscle up and knew I needed to train with more weight to get the proper strength. Can’t wait to do one eventually
I have no idea but I recently did my first muscle up (with fair amount of kip, similar to how you did it in your first video) and I can't even do 30% of body weight pull up.
If you’re above 150lbs in weight, it seems like you need a 53%+ body weight pull up to get a clean, non kipping muscle up. This aligns with what Mica Schulz has found (king of weighted) . If you’re lighter than 150 lbs, you likely don’t that need that much, but it definitely helps to have a strong weighted pull up. If you’re aiming for a clean muscle up with no easily visible kip, just go for 53%+ in pull ups and work on technique with bands. Although I recommend just doing weighted pull ups as they are really fun and much more rewarding than chasing MU’s.
@@GeekClimber its on his instagram, one of his posts. I think like 5-6 months back, has videos of his students doing muscle ups and he talks about it in the comments. He mentions 50-60% of bw pull up, so seems like closer to 53-55% will be enough for a cleaner muscle up. It is also on his website as well I think
I was able to throw really clean muscle ups at 73kg and I could do like 18 pullups and I rarely did weighted pullups, technique plays a big part as well too
The easier way to answer this question is a scale that continuously transmits readings to a computer underneath a pullup bar, if you have the money to buy lab equipment that durable and precise. You'd essentially get a reading of all the forces that go on the bar during a muscle up, including the weight required to pull.
Great video as I always wondered this myself. I did my first muscle up when I could do a 80 lb weighted pull up at 165 lb bodyweight. 80 lb is 48% which is pretty close to the number you came up with (54%)
Sounds about right. I can do about 3-5 clean muscle-ups while at the same time my max weighted pull-up is around 60-70% BW. But I'm not sure if weighted pull-ups are a prerequisite or rather a side-effect of muscle-up training. Because, while I do a lot of weighted pull-ups, the weights are only up to 30lbs, never really pushing to the max. I learned my first muscle-ups when my max pull-ups was around 30, max pull-ups with +30lbs was around 15-18.
What Ive learned is that no matter how much my 1 rep pullup was, never achieved a muscle up. Then I learned the diference between hollow(the one I did) and arched pullups
@@GeekClimber Of course they are, my max was 75lbs, not that much but I feel its really good. Then I started incorporating hollow pullups with weight and in no time I could achieve the muscle up, maybe it was more about the technique than a lack of strenght
@@arbeen2k02 yeah you definitely had the strenght already, just got my first 2 hand muscle up today (not chicken wing is what i mean) and tried weighted pull ups too, could only do 45 lbs
Love the approach! and yes it would be great if you could leverage your channel to collect data and analyze! Also maybe you could add an intermediate lvl to muscle -up, by that I mean that some MU were cleaner than other or with less kip. The graph would look like BW with no MU, BW were you might be able to do a MU and BW were you can do a MU for sure.
The problem is, it is almost impossible to quantify the amount of kip. Almost every supposedly "strict" muscle up still have some amount of kip from the hip hinge. Only the "perfect" zero kip muscle up without hip hinge and obviously also without knee bend is well-defined, however, the "perfect" muscle up is very hard to perform, if you nitpick hard, even not a lot of TH-cam experts' muscle up qualifies this "perfect" definition.
nicely thought out Video!! would you mind sharing your raw data? I'm too lazy to type it off myself, but would be interested in differentiating the muscle ups a little bit more regarding the use of momentum ;)
The most impressive person to me was Andre who weighed 190 lbs it is wayyyy harder to attempt any of this at that weight and the fact that he did it was awesome.
I am 100 kg/220 lb. I am able to do muscle up on the gymnastic rings but not a bar. I would say more technique is involved and forearm strength but less lat/bicep strength for the rings. And I can do 90 lb weighted pullups. If that is any consistent measurement a lot of folks who can do a 40% bw pullup can do ring muscle up with technique practice and forearm development.
Thanks for this video ☺🤗🤩 Today i do it my first muscle up after few weeks of weighted pullups training My weighted pullup max 58% only but enough for muscle up 🙂😄☺😎
Cool experiment, but I think you have a methodological flaw here in your measurement. Since with the bar muscle up, there is a pull, which needs to be explosive (different than 1RM), which pulls past the chest to bar position (where a clean 1RM should end, but none of these guys are doing a weighted chest to bar pull-up here). So an easier way to get a better correlation here would to be to count the 1RM weighted chest to bar, which is the actual precursor bit to the muscle up, and not a 1RM to getting the neck above the bar, since there will be a lot of people who can hit the higher neck above bar number but never developed strength in the rest of the range of motion needed for the muscle up.
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I think requiring video evidence just makes this way too much effort for most people. I get that as a youtuber you do this all the time but there is just no way in hell I am setting up a camera to film myself in the gym or asking someone to do it for me for that matter. I think it'd be better to keep it simple, stick to numbers, and when sifting through mark suspicious entries and outliers.
@@noone-ld7pt data integrity would be really hard otherwise
My weight is 56 kg i can do weigted pullups with 11 kg weight , 7 repitations ?
So how much bodyweight % is that for me?
Like how much% weight I'm pulling?
I think your should use every data for the training algorithm , e. g. bodyweight too. It is a good experiment, but I think it is really hard to find a precise value. E.g. If I do squat, I will have more muscles on my legs, which is not useful for the muscle up. And squat muscles are basically bodyweight. So I need even more on the shoulders to counter balance the ballast muscles. In ideal cases the person who can do the muscle up has a good upper body, with relative "low" lower body and a low overall bodyweight and a low body fat value.
Would also love a similar test for the One arm pull up! Would probably be alot harder to find enough people locally but the crowdsourcing idea should work!
I second this!
Yeah and front lever, or maybe full planche with a other exercise
I think the main problem for doing a similar test for the one arm pull up is that the assumption of the correlation coefficient between the one arm pull up and weighted pull up being close to 1 like the situation of the muscle up and weighted pull up most likely isn't true, so it will be harder to infer the data and draw conclusions.
@@noone-ld7pt yeah what i see around me and on myself too that 60% should be correct
I think Matthew Zlat, who excels at both OAP and weighted pullups put a prerequisite of being able to pullup %50 of bw for 5-6 reps before you start training for OAP. Maybe that helps.
Ajani is a beast. Don't think I've ever seen anyone pull double their body weight on a pullup. Impressive!
He did 105% not 200%. Why did you think it was double? Am i missing something? Double would have been 300 pounds. 153+153=306. Am i mistaken?
@@wellutopia2237 he pulled his weight (100%)+ the added weight(105%) which equates to 205% of his body weight which is twice his body weight.
@@ratman1201 yeah if you google 100% body weight pull up. Elite calisthenics athletes are pulling their body weight. 200% would have been 300 pounds on top of his body weight. 156+156. This is not 200% aka double.
@@wellutopia2237 Math must not be your forte. He didn't say anything about a percent pullup (which frankly, is just semantics). He said he's pulling double his body weight. Bro weighs 153 lbs and he strapped on an additional 160 lbs for a total of 313 lbs. That's more than double his body weight he's pulling.
Ahhh, i see, I was looking at it from more of a mathematic point of view.@@wellutopia2237
I was part of a calisthenics club like this in college and it’s almost like a way smaller unique community like climbing so it was cool to see them all get to be part of a big youtuber’s video and show their skills
bruh where do I find a calisthenics club. in my country barely anyone does calisthenics let alone there being a whole club in universities
Dudes be doing muscle up 360 over there. I saw a dude doing maltese in my college
It was a pleasure to be a part of this study ❤
I think the main critique I'd have is a lot of the participants could have easily done more than one muscle-up, so comparing a 1RM weighted pull-up doesn't tell us too much. For example, in the case of Andrey, his muscle-up was a 1RM, so using his 1RM weighted pull-up as a proxy was more accurate IMO. I think the best way to design it would be to have everyone do AMRAP muscle-ups and then match those reps for he max test (eg if someone could do 5 muscle-ups in a row, then test their 5RM weighted pull-ups). And ideally they'd have a good amount of rest in between the two sets, possibly even 24h-48h if possible.
Nice critique!
My thoughts exactly.
That's what I was thinking. Half of those guys put in less effort for their muscle-up than their 1RM weighted pull-up
Nice opinión, but you could also tell their MU strenght due to how easy they perform their first rep
As a scientifist I absolutely agree. But purely as a viewer interested in getting a subjective guesstimate of the correlation I'm pretty happy with geek's experimental design :)
What I really loved a bout this video is that it gave me a very concrete strenght goal to work towards before starting muscle up specific training. It makes it seem a lot more attainable!
I am not quite sure about that.
For me this numbers do not work.
People in this video were all very lightweight and usually calisthenic people do not train legs properly.
Iweigh around 80kg, which is 175lbs. My max pull up is 95kg x 4, so maybe i could do a 1 rep max pull up with 100kg, or 105kg tops!
My rep max is far away from 150% body weight, but in contrary i have very heavy legs (because i have a powerlifting background).
I have just about enough strength to do a more or less clean muscle up on the bar (with almost no swing).
@xIPsychox I'd say the muscle up isn't just about pure strength but power, so we need to take into account the speed at which you're able to pull yourself up. Training your bodyweight pull ups explosively will allow you to use your incredible strength to fly over the bar. You won't be very explosive at first but it's all about intent. Even with weighted pull up.
Enjoyed seeing how supportive everyone is of each other in this video.
Fun fact : I just recently (2-3 weeks ago) was able to do a single clean muscle-up (no kipping), and my 1 rep max on the pull-up falls in the 50%-55% range of my bodyweight.
im nowhere near that level but thank you for that
It seems as though you can say pulling about 50% of your own bodyweight extra is a indicator to a clean muscle up
I do 3 muscles ups but with keeping, my max 1 rep is +35% of body weight. I'm begginer+ but I'm still grinding to clean muscle ups, human flag and the final goal this year one arm pull up
Yes it would be super interesting with bigger datasets and more advanced algorithms!
If this video get 100k+ views, I will spin up the website to collect more data!
@@GeekClimber I want data like this for a bunch of lifts! it would be a really fun open source data science project
@@GeekClimberexactly 100k rn
@@GeekClimber 104k now
th-cam.com/channels/djL64S-IS84HjDhSc6XZ2A.html time to make that website to collect more data. @geekclimber
This is a super sick video. Live the analysis and the exercise. Probably the best exercise investigative video ever.
you are an inspiration eventhough you are not the strongest guy in youtube you undoubtly are one of the cleverest one. You taught me things that has lead to approach my trainings to a scientific knowledge which gives an assurance of what im doing is the thing I have to do to pursue my goals. Sorry for my english and thanks you a lot.
I use to workout with these guys. They’re all super chill. A very supporting group
Amazing video! I love data science and calisthenics :D amazing to see both topics combined in one vid 😁
Love the scientific approach you took with this experiment! Really cool video :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
this is a great video and matches what it took for me to get a muscle up. i am 200lbs and had to get to doing a 100lb weighted pull up for 3 reps to be able to muscle up
Thank you for analysing the data!!!
It helps me to understand what i need to train for ❤
Love it! Thank you for the content.
I had gotten to two consecutive muscle ups with kip, weighing 127 lbs. Max weighted pullup was +60 lbs.
Thanks for providing your data!
Very nice and easy approach to helping achieve a muscle up. Keep up the good videos and logical approach to work out goals.
Damn, ajani is a monster
This is SUCH A GREAT IDEA. Because the muscleup is kind of a yes or no thing even though there are so many degrees of "cleanness" with crossfit being the worst. But with a weighted pullup you can guess how close you are to getting the muscleup. And that is so valuable. You are the first person to connect the dots in this way that I've seen. Isn't it nice being first? :)
There's another tool people can use and that's the assisted dip machine except you use it standing up. There are different models/designs of these so unless you're a tiny person you'll want one that tends to be taller than average. But again you can see if you're getting close by how much weight you need to help you. As the machine is in front of you you can't swing so that helps us focus on form. And form is always good. This machine is especially good at working at wrist strength and flexibility as you can experiment with different degrees of false grip and do it slowly as well.
Seems pretty accurate, did my first muscle up last week, I can do 57% weighted pull-up (40 kg, weighing 70 kg)
pretty interesting. i think i did my 1st one when i could do a ~45 lbs weighted pullup (+32% BW, 63kg at the time) though the form was pretty disgusting. i chicken winged pretty bad. congrats on a 40kg pullup tho! i'm working on getting to 36kg on mine.
Love it, you're all amazing people and keep up the great pulls.
amazing video! I would like to see one with planche and the military press.
I walked by triton thelix every day, and I recognized a bunch of these ppl from my classes. They are all nerds, most people in the school were, so am I, I really loved this video lol.
Really amazing video! Great job hosting it!
this video was so wholesome and fun had a smile on my face the whole time
Very cool video. Thank you for doing this!
In my personal experience, i was able to bang out 12 reps on muscle ups but only able to do a 20 pound weighted pull up at the time. I think you dont have to be able to do any weighted pull ups to get your first muscle up. You just need to be able to do 10-15 body weight reps. And then you can practice form with a resistance band for assistance. Thats how i got my first.
true I can do like 10 of 20kg weighted pull ups, but only do like 5 muscle ups
I haven't done a muscle up yet, but can do 12+ pull ups (didn't test my max in a while). The movement of muscle up is more complex than the just pull up and dips, it's the transition from one to another that creates the difficulty. I think that the idea with resistance bands is great to learn it and progress with it, most likely will try it out myself :)
How much did you weigh and were you using the momentum of a crossfitter or standard muscle up form or strict muscle only muscle up? I agree once I can do about 12 reps or so of pull ups I can do a muscle up, but the first time I did it, I was a lot stronger, it took awhile to get the form but then I could do it when I got weaker. not a slow muscle up.
@@Itstime1231 i was 135 at the time probably, and form was decent. Normal momentum, and the last reps were ofc sloppier.
@@matemindak384 i could do a few reps with 20lbs at the time, probably 5. But it was a struggle. I dont think there is much carry over from muscle ups to weighted pull ups tbh. Ofc there is some but not as much as youd think. Being able to do a muscle up just means you’re getting explosive with your own bodyweight, doesn’t necessarily mean you will be able to move more weight once it’s added.
Makes sense, cool vid. the two barometers I most commonly see used for a weighted pullup are either 50% BW or two plates for reps. good goals to go for.
You earned yourself a new subscriber with this amazing video!
When I was climbing a lot, I weighed 205 lbs. I could do a 150 weighted chinup and could climb V8. Never got close to a clean muscle up after months of trying.
Ajani is such a beast! seen him in other random videos of calesthenics too crashing the competition lol
Damn this is very interesting! Would love for you to do a crowdsourced version to expand the sample size!
I'll test my max pull up next workout, where should I send the result?
You can comment your result here for now! I have python code that extracts and parses TH-cam comments. If this video get 100k+ views, I will spin up a website to properly collect more data.
@@GeekClimber Heyy :D Looks like the video crushed the 100k views goal! Are you still considering setting up a website?
Anyway here's my stats:
height: 6'2'' / 188cm
Weight: 191 punds / 87kg
1 rep max: 49.6 pounds / 22.5 kg (25.8% of bodyweight)
Muscle ups: 0
Love this! Must've been awesome for the UCSD students to do something so fun w/ an alumni, cheers!
also definitely launch that website !
Wow, super fascinating video concept! Combining data + calisthenics is awesome!!! :)))
Such a simple yet great and educational video! really loved this! Especially as i started weighted pull ups last month, just got 50% weighted this week (40kg, 79.6kg bw!)! would be cool to be able to do a muscle up at some point!
Good luck! You should be able to do it!
You should definitely be able to do it, watch some TH-cam videos to get the technique right. I can’t do 50% BW pull up but I can do a few muscle ups..
40kg after a month is crazy... took me around 5 months to get there
@@kamatayon6380 I think it might be cuz i’ve attempted pull ups since i was 20kg heavier than i am right now, so it translated to weighted pull ups perhaps? Still need to lose about 8kg weight, so i’ve essentially done weighted pull ups by default all the time lmao
@@mazi1597 You are losing weight, but still manage to do 40kg weighted pull-up in one month, you are very strong
This was really cool and tracks with what one of the old heads on reddit did a few years ago.
They polled and tested people at their gym that could do a muscle up or oa pull up and compared that to how much weight they could successfully add to a pull up. I remember 60-66% extra weight was the point they saw people able to do these advanced moves.
In your case, I especially like the extra statistics and seeing their form/weights, it adds a lot of validity and hope for heavier guys like myself
There's probably a bit of correlation bias, since I assume that most of the people you've tested have trained both the weighted pullup as well as the muscle up, and those that have trained longer both have a higher weighted pullup and are also much more likely to achieve the muscle up. So it seems reasonable that the actually % of bodyweight needed is a bit lower than 54%. However, it's still great to have a good baseline.
Ajani looking completly unassuming in that longsleeve and then banging out those pull-ups with over 100% BW is super impressive. Dude's a machine.
that was a useful video. thank you!
Great video, I'm studying statistics and I think that using probabilty and bayes was a nice idea, gj!!
Since I last watched this video I have improved my weighted pullup to 52% of my body weight up from about 38% and I can also muscle up way cleaner now. I was able to do a muscle up when I could only do 38% but there was a little kipping involved. I would say your analysis of the data is spot on. If anyone achieves a 54% of bodyweight weighted pullup, they can surely do a muscle up if their technique is correct.
Much Appreciated for your info, awesome video~~
Fantastic. This gives me a clearly defined goal with weighted pullups to aim for.
same. i can do 20 pull ups but cant dont come even close to doing a muscle up.
best part was that these guys are close to my bodyweight (160lb).
now i have a clear goal. have to be able to pull 110-120lb weighted pull up.
@@dnegel9546 late reply, but for reference I weigh 170 and can only do 50 lb weighted pullups for sets of 6 reps, that's probably just 85lb 1 rep max. But I can do muscle ups. There's a technique to it. Some of the people in this video would be able to do a muscle up if their technique was more co-ordinated. It's pulling from a more diagonal body angle instead of the more vertical angle of pullups.
@@Bobo-ye7dq yeah i seen that specially when kali muscle did his almost layingdown lol still despite knowing this 0 luck doing a muscle up
8:54 this was sick
The most impressive thing in this video is how our Geek Climber kept his enthusiasm high all the way from attempt 1 to 101
I did my first muscle up today and I gotta say skill is much more important than strength. Since I can only pull up plus 1/3 my bodyweight but once I realize the technics that I've been doing wrong, I corrected it and easily get my first (strict) muscle up. Hope this help you guys with ur training
It's true and false at the same time the more form is close to a strict muscle up, the more strength you need to be able to do a muscle up, but if you don't care about strict form you can kip and then it's more about having the good technic than strength.
@@just-a-random-guy199 I mean after I know exactly how to to a muscle up and do one with weird from, I know that it's not that I was lack of strength but technics. In the meantime, I already have enough strength for a strict muscle up because i did one 5 minutes after my first weird form muscle up
@@just-a-random-guy199 I can do 40 pull ups, 15 with additional 24 kg and 0 muscle up
as a counterpoint i will say that raw strength is still particularly effective, decided to give muscle ups a shot several days ago and got it within the first 10 attempts. for context, i've hovered around being able to do at least 1 arm pullups for the past 5 years or so, and can typically get rather high on normal pullups. unsure of what my max weighted pullup is but it's likely quite substantial
but to be fair i wasn't able to do the muscle ups without some sort of slight swing, so i can entirely see why technique is still important
@quanghoangvupro 💯 You are correct👍
2:50 Andrey ripped my own damn rotator cuff watching him attempt that muscle up 😅😅
Exactly what I wanted to know. Thx man ✋
Cool video!!! Really enjoyed it!!
I like doing pullups so I got a kick out of your video. Thanks.
For pull ups I usually find more useful to do a 2RM test. When you do the 1RM lots of people tend to get some sort of assistance from the legs or start the repetition with the arms slightly bent due to their height vs the height of the bar. Because of that they end up cheating the hardest part of the movement that is when your arms are fully straight!
Only a couple of guys started from a deadhang position and did the proper 1RM. That's why the 2RM is usually better, you might cheat the first one, but you are definitely not cheating rep #2.
Also besides the model being old as you mentioned, the other big thing that doesn't make this whole test very accurate is the form of the muscle up. Most people ended up using technique and momentum for the muscle up and only a few guys did the strict form with pure strength. That's why you got the guy with low 1RM VS bodyweight % being able to do it. He used heaps of momentum!
Anyway it is good to have some rough data as a general guidance!!
Good job 👊👍
A 3rd qualitative variable like how clean the muscle up was would give a lot of insight into the outliers in the data
It's almost impossible to quantify the amount of kip for the muscle up. Almost every supposedly "strict" muscle up still have some amount of kip from the hip hinge. I can only either allow people to do any kinds of muscle up, or the "perfect" zero kip muscle up without hip hinge. Obviously, I opt for "any" muscle up, because if you nitpick hard, even a lot of TH-cam experts can't perform the "perfect" zero kip muscle up. As for the weighted pull-up, the hardest part is the top, not the dead hang. The dead hang is the hardest for the weighted chin-up. So I think even if some people didn't start from the dead hang, the numbers shouldn't deviate too much from their max if they did it from the dead hang.
@@GeekClimber I only do normal pull-ups and weighted chin-ups, the top is definitely the hardest part in both.
@@pierreabiven1533 does the wonky one side first version count as a muscle up?
@@GeekClimber do you think absolute bodyweight is a factor, on top of the BW% strength ? E.g. apply a factor between 0.9-1.1 to the final score based on absolute weight?
0:43 the guy in the background doing less than half rep push ups
Achieved my first clean muscle up no kip recently once I was doing 40lbs (18kg) for 3x8. And regularly practiced explosive high pulls each pull day during warm ups to waist/belly button level.
Pulling to belly button is already beyond clean muscle up territory no? I mean a dip to belly button level is damn easy
@@proverbalizeryeah
you lying
@@majestytd Nah
Hey man, as a lifting and exercise 🤓 I think this is really great. Definitely an opportunity to quantify training regressions/progressions.
i love the jolly laugh he does at the end of every rep
Interesting video. My one critisism would be that looks like some of the people doing the muscle-up had a few reps left in the tank while the weighted pull up was a truer max effort.
I’ve learnt so much from this guy. Another great vid. Let me know if you ever want to do a collab. Anyone else fancy doing one?
Excellent video!
I would definitely submit my weighted pullup if you collect it. This is definitely cool info to have, but people shouldn't be completely deterred by the data, seen as people work differently and these are often generalizations.
Great video n info 👌🏼💪🏽
Thank you guys for great job. Ajani is awesome!
Awesome video!
One thing I have noticed is that you have a weakness in your left shoulder. At 13:30 you can see your left shoulder rising when doing the pullup which tells me you have trouble retracting that scapula.
You got good eyes haha. I do feel that my right side is stronger than my left side, and it's particularly obvious in one rep max scenarios.
This is an amazing experiment!
I needed this :)
This is good video for me because I can easily do 10 pull-ups now so I bought a weighted vest because my goal is a muscle up and knew I needed to train with more weight to get the proper strength. Can’t wait to do one eventually
I have no idea but I recently did my first muscle up (with fair amount of kip, similar to how you did it in your first video) and I can't even do 30% of body weight pull up.
Thanks for providing your data!
alot of the people that failed the muscle up attempt just looked like they had bad technique and not strength limiting them
This is a great video!
If you’re above 150lbs in weight, it seems like you need a 53%+ body weight pull up to get a clean, non kipping muscle up. This aligns with what Mica Schulz has found (king of weighted) . If you’re lighter than 150 lbs, you likely don’t that need that much, but it definitely helps to have a strong weighted pull up.
If you’re aiming for a clean muscle up with no easily visible kip, just go for 53%+ in pull ups and work on technique with bands. Although I recommend just doing weighted pull ups as they are really fun and much more rewarding than chasing MU’s.
Can you show me the link of the video where Micha discovered his findings? Very interested to see it!
@@GeekClimber its on his instagram, one of his posts. I think like 5-6 months back, has videos of his students doing muscle ups and he talks about it in the comments. He mentions 50-60% of bw pull up, so seems like closer to 53-55% will be enough for a cleaner muscle up. It is also on his website as well I think
I currently weigh 155 and my best weighted pull up is with 150lbs added. I've never tried a muscle up, I've always just liked regular pull ups haha
Jesus Christ dude.
You could probably do many mu in a row with those numbers
I was able to throw really clean muscle ups at 73kg and I could do like 18 pullups and I rarely did weighted pullups, technique plays a big part as well too
This was relly interresting to see and, hope you Will do some more like this in The future
interested for sure! Also interested in the one arm pull-up.
Thanks for brining some science to this.
3:25 -whats your name ?
- Hieu
-Nice to meet you/Hieu
hahaha so funny to me
Very helpful to see how strong u need to be to achieve muscle up
great video brother
This was great to watch
What a lovely experiment. 15 minutes flew by.
This was a BRILLIANT vedeo!
The easier way to answer this question is a scale that continuously transmits readings to a computer underneath a pullup bar, if you have the money to buy lab equipment that durable and precise. You'd essentially get a reading of all the forces that go on the bar during a muscle up, including the weight required to pull.
Man, the giant swingin' balls on these guys, and girl .... kudos to all!
You should see how many muscle ups can they do because some of those were easy, with a one rep max calculator we would have a better estimation
Ajani just won 1000$ respect to him
Great video as I always wondered this myself. I did my first muscle up when I could do a 80 lb weighted pull up at 165 lb bodyweight. 80 lb is 48% which is pretty close to the number you came up with (54%)
Sounds about right. I can do about 3-5 clean muscle-ups while at the same time my max weighted pull-up is around 60-70% BW. But I'm not sure if weighted pull-ups are a prerequisite or rather a side-effect of muscle-up training. Because, while I do a lot of weighted pull-ups, the weights are only up to 30lbs, never really pushing to the max. I learned my first muscle-ups when my max pull-ups was around 30, max pull-ups with +30lbs was around 15-18.
What Ive learned is that no matter how much my 1 rep pullup was, never achieved a muscle up. Then I learned the diference between hollow(the one I did) and arched pullups
Pretty sure weighted pull up and muscle up are highly correlated. What's your max weighted pull up?
@@GeekClimber Of course they are, my max was 75lbs, not that much but I feel its really good. Then I started incorporating hollow pullups with weight and in no time I could achieve the muscle up, maybe it was more about the technique than a lack of strenght
@@arbeen2k02 yeah you definitely had the strenght already, just got my first 2 hand muscle up today (not chicken wing is what i mean) and tried weighted pull ups too, could only do 45 lbs
@@henrikblomqvist720 how much do you weigh?
@@proverbalizer like 140 lbs only but i can add 90 lbs to my pull ups now
What some people are doing wrong is that their thumb position is not wrapping the bar .
Like for the table and not forcing to watch every single second of your video :)
Love the approach! and yes it would be great if you could leverage your channel to collect data and analyze!
Also maybe you could add an intermediate lvl to muscle -up, by that I mean that some MU were cleaner than other or with less kip. The graph would look like BW with no MU, BW were you might be able to do a MU and BW were you can do a MU for sure.
The problem is, it is almost impossible to quantify the amount of kip. Almost every supposedly "strict" muscle up still have some amount of kip from the hip hinge. Only the "perfect" zero kip muscle up without hip hinge and obviously also without knee bend is well-defined, however, the "perfect" muscle up is very hard to perform, if you nitpick hard, even not a lot of TH-cam experts' muscle up qualifies this "perfect" definition.
Excellent info and good effort by ya'll.
Looks like lighter people have the edge!
Thanks.
Very impressed at how controlled and strict these athletes were 😤😤
I understand how range of motions works for pull ups and that the first guys 110lbs technically counts but his form really shows in his physique.
nicely thought out Video!! would you mind sharing your raw data? I'm too lazy to type it off myself, but would be interested in differentiating the muscle ups a little bit more regarding the use of momentum ;)
The most impressive person to me was Andre who weighed 190 lbs it is wayyyy harder to attempt any of this at that weight and the fact that he did it was awesome.
He was quite strong imo it's just his technique that isn't good.
I am 100 kg/220 lb. I am able to do muscle up on the gymnastic rings but not a bar. I would say more technique is involved and forearm strength but less lat/bicep strength for the rings. And I can do 90 lb weighted pullups.
If that is any consistent measurement a lot of folks who can do a 40% bw pullup can do ring muscle up with technique practice and forearm development.
Thanks for this video ☺🤗🤩
Today i do it my first muscle up after few weeks of weighted pullups training
My weighted pullup max 58% only but enough for muscle up 🙂😄☺😎
Cool experiment, but I think you have a methodological flaw here in your measurement. Since with the bar muscle up, there is a pull, which needs to be explosive (different than 1RM), which pulls past the chest to bar position (where a clean 1RM should end, but none of these guys are doing a weighted chest to bar pull-up here). So an easier way to get a better correlation here would to be to count the 1RM weighted chest to bar, which is the actual precursor bit to the muscle up, and not a 1RM to getting the neck above the bar, since there will be a lot of people who can hit the higher neck above bar number but never developed strength in the rest of the range of motion needed for the muscle up.
As soon as they grab the bar, you immediately recognize those who have a clean muscle up.😄