re: What’s the most pull ups you could do in your prime vs now?

25 or so dead-hangs. Must stop at the bottom until counted, arms fully extended, then back up to chin over the bar. Counter’s arm extended in front of your legs to ensure you don’t try to cheat.

Today, maybe 10 or 12. I don’t do 200 per day, like back in the day, but I do have a pull up bar in the back yard. In my day, we had to do 10 pull-ups every time you walked past a bar. There were bars literally everywhere around the barracks.

In the pre-dead hang days, you could go until the skin started falling off your hands...assuming you knew how to use your momentum.