Most impressive weighted muscle ups

[thomaslowrens]

I have looked for the weighted muscle up world record but I'm not sure what it is. So here are some of the best examples I have found on Youtube, feel free to share more impressive heavy muscle ups in the comments.

• Edit from the future: David Pham +45kg/100lbs ring muscle up at 65kg/143lbs bodyweight. That's +70% bodyweight! Can also do 2 reps with 40kg.
• Edit: Valeo Novikov, weighs 76kg/167lbs, on a bar does 2 reps +35kg/77lbs and one with +40kg/88lbs, slightly more kip than Sai Ngo but perfect symmetry, here.
• Heaviest bar muscle up, some chicken winging but no kip: +40kg/88lbs Sai Ngo.
• Edit from the future: Vadym Oleynik, +40kg/88lbs on a bar here.
• Bar muscle up, perfect form +32kg/66lbs: Max True.
• Another perfect bar muscle up +32kg: Street Workout Munster.
• Another perfect bar muscle up +32kg: Ranjit Bhachu.
• Heaviest ring muscle up: Adam Raw, 95kg bodyweight + 40kg (219lbs + 88lbs).
• 73kg bodyweight + 30kg (160lbs + 66lbs) clean bar muscle up by Zod.
• Ross Edgley, 100kg bodyweight + 20kg 2 reps. So 220lbs + 44lbs and almost no kip.
• +34kg/74lbs bar muscle up with some struggle by dwrkk.
• The heaviest man I have seen doing a muscle up, D3Hundred. Plenty of kip, almost looking like a glide kip, but this man did it at 300lbs + 40lbs vest, so 135kg+18kg, here. Can also do unweighted with moderate kip, so don't give up if you are heavy.

 

[dawn16]

@thomaslowrens Nice and slow.

I got a labral tear from doing weighted pullups when i was tired and went from slack to one last attempt. Had to get surgery.

 

[dawn16]

How long had you been training at that point?

 

[dawn16]

About 3 years. I was just too weak for the load and my friend kept insisting "i got this".

I focus a lot on mobility now.

 

[dawn16]

my friend kept insisting "i got this"

Sounds like encouragement. Don't pass the responsibility for your safety to anyone else.

 

[vivian8908]

@dawn16 Meaning don't listen to friends who say "you got this" if you don't think you have this. A lot of times when people are first starting out lifting, they'll assume their friends are right because they lift often and probably know their stuff. Then an injury happens.

 

[dawn16]

Of course it was encouragement. We were always competitive with each other. I never blamed him, so dont assume the worst of me. We laugh about it now.

Only just to know your body.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@dawn16 Was it because your fatigue prevented you from doing a controlled eccentric and you fell into your joints?

 

[dawn16]

@thomaslowrens I do that all the time (totally relaxing at the bottom of a pull-up).

It's not an issue if your shoulders are prepared for it. We were encouraged to do full dead hangs on each pull-up in my gymnastics class.

The issue is pushing too much progress too fast.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@dawn16 A passive hang is not the same as falling into that position with too much momentum. I agree that it is good to start each pull up from a dead hang.

I was asking him if he fell into that position in a jerky way, which would make sense as a cause of injury, while stopping smoothly would probably always prevent injury.

 

[dawn16]

@thomaslowrens Gotcha.

Seen a few people say you should 'never dead hang' which is absurd, thought you were leaning that way.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@dawn16 Passive hangs actually cure shoulder issues for some people, but when coming down from a pull up you need to brake with your muscles, else the braking will be done by the connective tissue, potentially tearing it.

 

[dawn16]

@thomaslowrens This sounds probable. My muscles had to be inactive for my socket to take the hit.

I used to dead hang to stretch all the time. Ive been wary of it since, but its all in my mind. My shoulder is near new again.

 

[dawn16]

@thomaslowrens I know I was in a dead hang, but maybe I made some progress before I slacked again. When I think of it, that seems more plausible than tearing it on the way up.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@dawn16 Good luck in the future, nobody deserves that stuff.

 

[beastnate123]

@dawn16 How much weight?

 

[alisonmelissa]

@thomaslowrens 'Kali muscle' does muscles ups, check him out. He would be weighing in at 240-250ish? Maybe more, I'm guessing

Edit : he's 5,9" and 235-240lbs

 

[thomaslowrens]

@alisonmelissa His form is not very clean but he's worth mentioning, claims to be 265lbs/119kg here.

May as well mention NinjaTyler, who is 244lb/110kg in this video, just because I find him fun.

 

[prestontg]

@thomaslowrens 265 lb ≈ 120 kg

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[thomaslowrens]

@prestontg Don't worry helpful bot sir, I already got this.