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Originally Posted by ckissick
When I was a teenager my record was 50 with two arms, and 1 with one arm. I was a rock climber at the time and weighed very little. There was a climber back then named John Gill who could do a one-finger pullup. I'm 63 now, and don't know how many I can do with a bar. I've been doing them on a hang-board, just on finger tips. I can only do about 5 to 9, depending on how I'm feeling. I've taken up rock climbing again and would like to get up to 20.
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Rock climbers are a completely different breed of cat, male and female. When I was running rivers I ran with a lot of folks who did river guiding in the summers and guided climbs in the Fall and Spring.
Completely different body type from me. They tried to teach me how, as they quaintly put it, "rock hop", but even then, in phenomenal shape, 6'4" 185, I'm getting sewing machine leg, vertigo, finger cramps and sore shoulders and my feet may not have left the ground.
Can't be good at everything.