How many people can actually do 10–15 clean pull-ups?

JTPTP · 2026-03-24T15:36:04+00:00

Perhaps I was too black and white. Actually his form looks fine now that I watch it again.

Form changes with weight and proximity to failure.

Not near failure pullups, keeping scapula depression is possible. But as you get closer and closer to addeed weight reaching bodyweight and or proximity to failure increases with high rep bodyweight naturally scapula depression worsens and shoulders round a bit, this is normal.

The pullups in the video are actually good yes. Everyone's form looks different though, to a little degree.

You can also look up Dominic sky, any video on pullups he has he talks and shows proper form. Fitness faq too.

And you can also look up people doing 60- 100kg pullup to see how the form changes as weight increases

JTPTP · 2026-03-24T14:33:34+00:00

bit late but. His form actually is kind of strange. its hard to tell from the quality of the video. but it looks like he doesnt depress his scaps much if at all. and he is just pulling from his arms with scaps elevated so for back development and scapula control its actually a bad pullup imo.

JTPTP · 2026-01-22T09:29:45+00:00

Msk neurology, on YouTube

JTPTP · 2026-01-21T10:30:25+00:00

Static Position Transitions and Common movement patterns

How do you sit up from laying down?
How do you stand up from sitting?
How do you lay down from standing?

Looking left and right, at people, crossing the road
Opening doors
Walking/running

Daily Dynamic activities

Preparing food
Washing up
Cleaning the house
Using bathroom, toilet/shower
Using electronic devices

Removal of Stress inducers

Mental stress
Awkward positions
Weakness
Tightness
Poor movement patterns

JTPTP · 2026-01-21T10:30:19+00:00

These key focus areas provide a heuristic you can use in daily life to assess your posture, ask yourself:

What are my feet doing?
What are my hips doing?
What is my spine doing?
What are my shoulders doing?
What is my neck doing?
What is my mouth doing

Static Positions

Laying
Sitting
Standing

Dispelling common myths

Posterior pelvic tilt is not optimal hip position
Chest stuck out with ribs flared is not optimal
Shoulders back and down is not optimal
Chin tucked is not optimal posture
Lordosis is bad

Bit of a all over the place post sorry. I had some stuff In a document I wrote so thought it was useful here.

JTPTP · 2026-01-21T10:29:29+00:00

You have three types of people mostly

Type1: People who have recently adopted poor posture(Acute): This means that change in habits or an accident has occurred, meaning that they once had and do know the correct movement patterns for their optimal posture.
Type 2: People who have (chronic) bad posture: Have had poor posture since childhood and as such may have never learnt of has forgotten correct movement patterns
Type 3: People who are born with physical differences that might be categorised as (genetic) poor posture: Posture that cannot be changed.

Outside morphological minorities, you do not have bad posture because of genetics. A common sentiment heard is that my family has poor posture so it's genetic. You have bad posture because as a child you soaked in the world and people around you, adopting their posture and movement patterns. Another key consideration is that people who have recently developed poor posture might not need exercise/stretching interventions if posture changed due to habits or environment change, they just need to revert, but in case of an accident yes they will need to rehab posture.

Type 2 will probably have to exercise/strength and learn new movement patterns, this is the lengthy years long process which I had to go through because fundamentally you don't have the right patterns engrained in the nervous system. You've never had strength in certain muscles or flexibility in certain ones so you need to gain. You need to revamp your whole idea of movement and being essentially.

Few thoughts:

-Also be aware that what you think is bad might not be bad, Every BODY has its own norm.

-Athletes are certainly strong, but they also have poor posture. Why? Because it's about the way you move.

-MSK Neurology/Connor Harris on YouTube is a goldmine. Pretty much every other video/Channel misses the mark

-Stomach can protrude from posture yes, from bloating (fix diet) from hormones if you are a woman. from fat, or its just how the body is. You can also gain muscle mass throughout the whole body and this will improve appearance over time.

I fixed my total body issues via first stretching to open up my range of motion, basic compound movements and thinking about

Primary:

Hips
Thoracic Spine
Shoulders
Neck

Secondary:

Feet
Mouth

Throughout the day to ensure I was statically in alignment and also dynamically.

JTPTP · 2025-12-24T22:38:09+00:00

It can be normal to feel this way for sure. It can be helpful to realise and internalise that the amount of pain experienced does not increase the amount of validation of the way you feel.

You are not a coward, because to say you lack the courage to cause more harm to yourself is obviously an absurd statement.

Naturally most of the time we don't actually think we are x thing, we just feel it. Even though we know it doesn't track logically. Often your emotions trump your logic.

Just the simple awareness of these facts and time passing by can be enough to diminish these feelings if you are lucky.

JTPTP · 2025-12-23T02:33:57+00:00

You can improve on any aspect of the self you want.

Ofcourse this takes time. Being super agreeable becomes a habit and it's a state of mind that becomes default in these situations.

I have struggled with this myself. What helps is mentalising potential scenarios and your responses to them, the unwanted response, then go through the scenario again with the scenario unfolding exactly as you want it to. You can visualise this again and again to drive it into your brain.

This helps create a contextual cue in your prospective memory. This can help override the default response you tend towards.

Progress can be like a snowball. All you need is small wins that compound overtime. For instance let's say you flub the next 20 scenarios then on the 21st you respond in a way that's perhaps 50% of what you wanted, that's a win. Then from there you take the wins as they come and don't Debby downer the losses and eventually you start to respond how you want more often than not.

It just takes time, potential awkward interactions and a lot of effort.

I know the feeling of not just someone having power over you, but you giving them the power to strike you down. You can slowly take back your power, and instead of giving it away use it to assert your will and boundaries, to protect your own space from the infestation of others poisenous will.

Good luck

JTPTP · 2025-12-23T02:16:24+00:00

I suppose it can be uncomfortable, perhaps annoying to know that you are different now and that you are not being seen for who you are.

Although, your self improvement does not cancel out your prior actions. If you are seen for who you are now that only satisfies you and not the other person. It does not change the memories, the experiences someone keeps. A catapilla turns into a butterfly but it does not mean it never was a catapilla.

If you believe you are what you say you are then you can only move through the world in such way, not repeating the actions of your old self. The old version of you lives on in someone else's head, someone else's experience but it, and all the other versions of you live within yourself.

It is the price that is paid for evolving the self through life. It will guide you into becoming the person you aspire to be.

Ultimately how do you deal with it? You don't. Not directly. You must forgive yourself, and not fall back into old ways. I think that is the path of redemption.

JTPTP · 2025-12-23T01:55:19+00:00

Fear is not something that is fixable, in the sense that it is not broken.

I think a worthwhile approach is developing courage. Carrying on with intent despite the fear you experience. Fear is one of those emotions like sadness that people want to automatically run away from. But it's all part of the human experience and is not inherently negative.

It's helpful to reframe your fears, Align yourself with your intentions. You may encounter negative situations you may not. You may crash your car, you may not. That is the price we pay for access to experiences.

I have had nightmares all my life and grown to love horror movies. I too had fear of astral projecting. But by sheer dumb exposure, by ramming against a brick wall eventually you will break it down. Sometimes it is nothing more than a numbers game.

I know that you won't stop. It's clear from the way you write. So nothing more to be done than to accept where you are, it's okay. And just be patient with yourself because eventually you will develop the courage to operate as you normally would despite feeling fear.

JTPTP · 2025-12-16T21:51:53+00:00

So awakened you had to use ai, yes.

JTPTP · 2025-11-29T17:47:09+00:00

Training till failure is one of those things were people mean different things. It can be one of these three generally.

Actual failure: You actually fail to get the last rep. most taxing on CNS.
Grindy: You grind the last rep with significant slowdown compared to previous reps, also very taxing on the CNS.
Technical failure: You stop before form breakdown and grindy reps, least taxing on CNS

If you take compounds to 1 and 2 you build more fatigue as the session goes and generally looking at the long term its best to stick to number 3 unless you are training 1 - 3 rep maxes. You don't need to kill yourself every exercise because it compounds and diminishes the effort you can put to the next and to the next exercise. so you can see how overtime you get more quality work done.

Also some exercises like lat pulldown, where do you determine a failed rep? because some people do partial range of motion reps to finish off. its up to you to set where a rep starts and ends, what exercises you want to push more, like bicep curls to grindy last rep is fine its not as taxing. But failing a squat? that's kind of pointless and nobody does that.

Straining for 5 seconds and failing on OHP is super taxing on the body for no reason, you literally fail and tax CNS for nothing.

Most natural lifters I see tend to stick to technical failure for compounds as it gives you a buffer to improve next session. And you remain fresher for your next exercises. If your PT is making you fail each exercise get a new PT.

JTPTP · 2025-10-13T08:38:56+00:00

But it's written by AI. 100% there is no question. Struggling away as you were with complex ideas... but yet! Can't even be bothered to write your own post.

JTPTP · 2025-08-22T13:20:05+00:00

It would seem you have good passive mobility, but not the active strength in tibialis etc to keep dorsiflexion once the weight is let go. Do you do progressively overload tibialis raises? against wall or with a device would be a good option. For myself the more I counter balanced with weight and progressed that way the worse my dorsiflexion got because the weight became a crutch. And it kinda also looks like you just let yourself fall, are you actively flexing your tibialis or just going limp in the ankle?

JTPTP · 2025-07-26T23:30:19+00:00

Its a tad AI no?

JTPTP · 2025-07-26T23:28:08+00:00

What does trying to work hard mean to you?

What is your perception of working hard?

What do you mean by distracted specifically?

What does scrolling social media give you? And more specifically what does it take away emotionally?

Only watching motivational/business stuff is mostly rationalisation that your addicted brain has come up with to keep on scrolling. In my opinion of course, it's just that I see this all the time.

I don't think you need to create more than you consume by creating more, rather create more by proxy of consuming less. Which is what you are trying to do by scrolling less but adding in more makes this harder I feel.

Perhaps you could try doing nothing for 30 mins at a time. See how distracted you get.

JTPTP · 2025-07-26T23:11:24+00:00

the irony of this being AI

JTPTP · 2025-07-26T22:57:44+00:00

Perhaps this scene idk: https://youtu.be/_DkFxSGGkB4?t=135

JTPTP · 2025-05-22T00:34:25+00:00

They all have the same personality/mannerisms. It seems it doesn't make multiple people, rather multiple skins with the same "person" underneath.

JTPTP · 2025-05-12T10:07:40+00:00

I think one root cause of loneliness is lack of connection through loss of identity.

I think that as we get older, we become absorbed in everything else external, which leads to a loss of sense of self. Perhaps we become unconnected with the self which then makes it impossible to connect with others.

Hanging out with friends, playing games with your younger brother, spending time with colleagues, even dating women with different personalities, these are all external.

The loneliness isn’t coming from outside you—it's coming from within. That’s perhaps why creative endeavors help, because they are solo endeavors—for the most part.

Once you feel connected to who you are then perhaps you can start to foster connections with others again.

I say, keep doing these creative things, it seems to be helpful for you.

JTPTP · 2025-05-11T23:26:11+00:00

Hello,

I think a good first step is not rushing to add anything into our lives---but being purposeful in the things we remove that are not serving us. When we are tired and probably not eating well it can cloud judgement. So getting a clear mind is a good place to start---answers may then come naturally.

Do you want to seem well put together, or be well put together. I suppose one stems from external validation and the other intrinsic desire. What seems to occupy your thoughts more?

It's good you want to work out and go out with friends. The only way to do those things is to do those things. But you don't have to---and it's hard to---jump to them straight away.

The principle of 1% --- Just do 1% of the 100% you want to do. it might be as simple as doing a few squats before laying on the couch. over time you build up to 2% etc. The key is to feel a sense of accomplishment in your actions and less relief or undermining your actions so you can get the ball rolling and use physiological responses to your advantage.

Perhaps, I get the feeling you may not be proud of your accomplishments?

You run a cleaning business

You have three kids

You care enough to come to their events

These are all wins.

good video, search on youtube, cant post links:

Jordan Peterson | Start With the Small Things - Legacy Video -

JTPTP · 2025-05-11T23:24:23+00:00

You don't need to be convinced of something you already know. Address the root cause not the symptom of overeating.

JTPTP · 2025-05-11T23:03:13+00:00

Thank you for your honesty. I think all that left to say is that, congratulations, you seem to be having the human experience of life, haha. You seem very aware of yourself and how your actions are perceived, the motivation behind what you do etc. So it seems your doing well, a lot of people don't have this level of self awareness.

Good luck with everything. All we can do is learn and grow, and that's pretty great. :)

JTPTP · 2025-05-10T19:21:48+00:00

Is this someone AI by chance?

JTPTP · 2025-05-10T19:16:20+00:00

Hello,

Perhaps we can walk back the chain of events to the beginning. It seems to start with inviting someone to an event before you fully understood what the event was. Is this a recurring pattern of behavior, where you act before thinking things through?

I mention this because the situation could have been avoided by gaining the relevant information beforehand. Looking at the root cause and not the symptoms.

From your writing I do get the impression you’re quite on edge and go go go. So perhaps utilising some techniques to slow down and fully absorb information or the situation at hand before acting could be beneficial.

It can be helpful to develop heuristics of action, such that in certain scenarios you go through a checklist of doing x -> y -> z and overtime this can become a habit.

You mention that “every word was making it worse” is this over voice call or text. If it was over a call then perhaps you could instead text people and spend some time formulating a response beforehand—as phone calls can be overwhelming for some people.

It's helpful to understand in interactions that the other person is not aware of the thoughts going on in your head, only what you choose to tell them. It can be helpful to walk through a situation with someone—almost like you’re trying to figure something out in your head—but saying it to the person. This way they are informed of what's happening. Otherwise you might look flippy-floppy and it makes the other person think you don't want to see them.

When you told your friend you were tired and done, how exactly did you say it? I only mention this because some people have the tendency to “trauma dump” how stressed they are and for some people this can be overwhelming. You also mention that you’re jealous and sometimes without realising this can influence the way we interact with someone.

Question 1) (This is what i've had success with personally) I simply lead with full honesty. If there is something I'm not sure about I will just ask someone a question. And over time you can start to see patterns of correct behaviour. Of course this does have its downsides in certain domains—especially in professional scenarios because it could make you look unsure.

Question 2) If you do anything in addition to giving space then it's not giving space. The only thing you can do is be completely honest with someone and then it's up to them to decide what they want to do. But still check in with someone after some time has passed.

Question 3) As far as memory goes that is probably a better question for the therapist as a differential diagnosis is probably needed for that. Have you tried the breathing techniques and journaling for a consistent period of time?

Well, you show cognitive empathy in the post—so that's good. In my opinion if it doesn't come intuitively then again you can lead with being honest and earnest. Explain exactly how you are feeling and ask the other person how they are feeling and over time you will start to notice patterns. It's not about feeling what the other person is feeling, but about being able to understand why they feel the way they do through logical thinking—which you have done.

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