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Sweat Science: The Pull-Up Artists

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The record for most pull-ups without dropping off the bar is a measly 238 by Jan Kairs in 2017. John can bust out 900 pull-ups in an hour, five at a time. This seems to be my happy middle ground. Five is a number I don't have to count. It's so normal now that I just do them and let go of the bar. And that interval is a pace that I can maintain for a really long time. Even if you had incredible endurance and strength, you could pull sets of ten. Simply put, staying on the bar has rapidly diminishing returns."

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