| > for some reason most women take a while longer than men to figure out the correct form for pull-ups. Most women lack the upper body strength to do even a single pull up. Even fairly fit women often can’t do a single strict pull up. > Although once they have the correct form, women tend to outperform men due to lower bodyweight. Nope. Pull ups are largely limited by strength and not form. And men are stronger per pound than women. Especially in upper body strength. Novice men outperform intermediate women on pull ups. Unless you’re talking about CrossFit “butterfly” pull ups that are primarily about momentum control. Then maybe, but I still doubt it. https://strengthlevel.com/strength-standards/pull-ups/lb But yeah, 50 push ups and 20 pull ups is absolutely not a starting point for most people. A male would be well past intermediate strength level to be cranking out 20 pull ups in one set. The average untrained individual can’t do 20 pull ups in an hour regardless of how they split them up. |
I've seen intermediate women (amateur gymnasts) do 10x the number of pull-ups as truly novice men (20+ vs. barely being able to do 2). We probably have different definitions of novice.