First Time Using A Weighted Belt

[bennyb]

I have never used this for anything before but today I felt doing something different. Saw one of my buds using it for pull-ups. He's around 150 and strapped himself with 15 pounds making him around 165. He did very well in the pull-ups so I figured hell with it i'll give it a shot. Now i'm around 227 so 15 would make me around 242. I got 10 pull-ups in a row. Again I have never attempted this until today. I said to myself "If you can pull that off lets get more weight" well I strapped myself with 45 pounds thats nearly 2.5 times what I just did. This would make a total of 272 pounds. I got 5 partial chin-ups in succession. I never thought I was that strong, I knew I could do it but I didn't expect that much. It felt awesome.

[John Peterson]

Hey Benny B,

That's a great accomplishment my friend. But use discretion Benny because that is a lot of weight to be 'pulling' and you need to give your tendons plenty of time to adjust to the added weight.


---John Peterson

[gruntbrain]

Clearly, Benny shouldn't be allowed to perform these using a doorway mounted bar

[bennyb]

Hey Benny B,

That's a great accomplishment my friend. But use discretion Benny because that is a lot of weight to be 'pulling' and you need to give your tendons plenty of time to adjust to the added weight.


---John Peterson

John,

Thanks for the heads up lol. I was merely doing it to test myself, theres a huge chance that I won't be doing that again anytime soon.

[bennyb]

Clearly, Benny shouldn't be allowed to perform these using a doorway mounted bar

You said it best grunt. This was a one time deal if I'd do it again it wouldn't be for a long long time. My BW is all I do need but I like to have fun every now and then.

[Viking Dan]

Remind me to call you when my car is stuck in the snow. ;)

[mike]

Hey Benny B,

That's a great accomplishment my friend. But use discretion Benny because that is a lot of weight to be 'pulling' and you need to give your tendons plenty of time to adjust to the added weight.


---John Peterson

I can certainly attest to this. Once i had a pullup contest with a swimmer friend. In order to compensate for our size difference i used a weight belt with 35lbs on it. This meant we were both doing pullups at around 170lbs. He knocked off 10 and being the competative guy i am i squeezed out 11 with no small amount of strain. The next 4 days the tendons in my wrist were sore!

[gruntbrain]

Anyone who has access to a strong pullup unit( not a door mounted one) can load up with alot of weight & perform isometrics &/or negatives. I haven't done this in awhile & may give it a go. In the past, I used grip assistance to get the most out of my weighted Iso pulls. From experience I've found the grip assistance actually minimizes the injury risk( I hope Pierini chimes in)