Mark Bell's Power Project EP. 221 Live - Mike McCastle
Mark Bell's Power Project
Power Project Studios
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Mike McCastle is a speaker, endurance athlete and philanthropist. He is the current world record holder for the number of pull-ups completed in 24 hours (5,804) while wearing a 30 lb pack. He is the founder of the Twelve Labors Project, a philanthropic organization in which McCastle performs feats of strength and endurance to raise awareness for causes. McCastle is also a petty officer in the United States Navy.
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| 0:00.0 | In honor of our guest you did some pull-ups this morning Mark I did you know I I fell kind of short of 5,000 though |
| 0:07.8 | Well fell short or like not even close |
| 0:12.0 | I don't know I wasn't that far off. You had some for a few? I probably did about a total of 30 reps or something. |
| 0:20.0 | You know, spread out over the course of like 37 sets you know yeah I was I just |
| 0:25.8 | suck at him but I noticed that for me if my body weight is even just five |
| 0:30.8 | pounds less damn that makes a big difference. |
| 0:33.7 | It does. |
| 0:34.4 | It makes a huge difference. |
| 0:35.7 | So like right now I'm right about 250. |
| 0:38.4 | When I'm like 240, it's not bad to do sets of 12 on a pull-up. But damn right now it's hard. |
| 0:45.0 | With my added body weight right now, not that I was ever good at pull-ups, but you know... |
| 0:50.0 | You were pretty good. Oh, okay-ish. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, you were moving around good on pull-ups, okay-ish. Yeah you were moving around good on pull-ups and now it's very bad-ish like it's it's tough man. Yeah, so even just a little bit of body weight kills me. |
| 1:00.0 | Were you as big as you are right now when you did that? |
| 1:03.0 | I was, I was heavier. |
| 1:05.0 | I was 2, I'm 2.25 now. |
| 1:07.0 | So I was 2.30 when I did the pull-ups. |
| 1:09.0 | And you're right, you lose 5 pounds, it feels like taking a weight vest off but the national |
| 1:14.7 | average is two so if you did 30 this morning you're well above oh there we go I |
| 1:19.2 | used to mess with the ones where you pull yourself up and try to push yourself away. |
| 1:24.0 | Holy shit, that's really hard. |
| 1:26.0 | You ever try those? |
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