Andrew Huberman· PhD
Pavel’s dad is in his 80s and does this sort of thing and 100 full pull-ups a week.
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Pavel’s dad is in his 80s and does this sort of thing and 100 full pull-ups a week.
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He’s also incredibly strong and fit by any standards and his father (in his 80s) is doing more than 100 strict pull-ups per week with no HRT, well, conditioned cardio, etc.
Pavel’s father is in his 80s, no HRT and does 100 strict full range pull ups or more a week with this approach.
my father has always been an athlete and then at the age of 71 I brought him to powerlifting meat and I see him in the warm-up area picking up you know 225 pounds with bad form like Dad what are you doing he got interested so fast forward a few years and uh by the time he was 75 he had several American records in uh several weight classes and uh he deadlifted uh in the low 400s uh without a belt body weight of 198 and in fact when uh back at that point when Professor Stuart McGill who is a very good friend of mine he uh came to watch my dad uh I think he pulled like 385 for triple before competition in at Gold Gym Venice and uh Ste examined his back back and he said he had a you know muscularity in the back of a 40y old so I thought it was pretty pretty pretty cool so uh he's not deadlifting right now because an old injury cut up to him he fell off a track vehicle you know like imagine a tank without a gun uh military tractor vehicle on Ice in the winter and uh about 40 years ago and there are some things that cut up to him so he cannot deadlift right now but he's still twice a week he does over 50 pull-ups in total and you know and at least twice a week he does over 100 perfect body weight squats like powerlifting style squats you know and he does that he does push-ups and things like that
and uh back at that point when Professor Stuart McGill who is a very good friend of mine he uh came to watch my dad uh I think he pulled like 385 for triple before competition in at Gold Gym Venice and uh Ste examined his back back and he said he had a you know muscularity in the back of a 40y old so I thought it was pretty pretty pretty cool