Is Doing 50 Pull Ups A Day Good? – (Calories and Results)

Everyone wants to stay fit, it’s hardly possible to find people who would say that they would like to avoid being fit. When our body is in shape then our health condition is also getting better, which nowadays is unfortunately still a problem for many of us. Often we don’t have much time to exercise so many of us wonder if doing 50 pull ups a day is good enough.

Pull ups are perfect exercises if you want to lose some additional body fat and also build muscles, but doing 50 pull ups a day will definitely let you burn s

ome calories which will result in losing body fat, and also it will help you build muscle mass and strengthen arms. It highly depends on your current body build and the quality of your pull ups, later I will show you a full table where you will be able to see if your goal are real.

Are 50 pull ups a day not enough?

If you decided to do 50 pull ups a day that is a very good sign because that means that you want to do something positive for your body but doing 50 pull ups can be impossible for some people. It highly depends on your current body mass, so if you are overweight then a single pull up can be very exhausting and it will also burn way more calories than a single pull up of a person who is in the normal range of BMI.

Is Doing 50 Pull Ups A Day Good?
Is Doing 50 Pull Ups A Day Good?

50 pull ups can be divided into 5 sets of around 10 pull ups each. Most people do a single pull up in around 2 seconds so a single set of 10 pull ups will take about 20 seconds. After every set you should take from 30 to 90 seconds to rest before starting another set, so doing 50 pull ups a day will take you around 7 minutes in total which is not a lot.

We highly recommend you add more different types of exercises into your workout routine, because your arms should rest a day after strength training, but more on that later.

What are the results after doing 50 pull ups a day?

Pull ups are going to help you build muscle mass and also lose some fat. Even doing 50 pull ups a day can give you a lot of great results, but the most important thing will be how many days are you going to repeat this workout.

Because doing it for only a week won’t change your look drastically, but doing it for a few months will definitely change your appearance. Even an easy workout routine can get you into shape if you are consistent enough! Remember that you have to burn more calories than you intake to see any changes in your total weight. Doing it consistently for a few months can make your arms look bigger and also make them stronger.

How many calories you might burn doing pull ups?

We prepared a calorie table of pull ups below that will give you the overall perspective of how many calories you will be able to burn while doing pu

ll ups. I divided the table by the person’s weight to give you more details.

WeightCalories burned per minute of pull ups
Underweight5 calories
Normal weight8 calories
Overweight10 calories
Calories burned while doing pull ups

Note that weight is based on the BMI range, and also calories above are based on good quality pull ups. So if you do 50 pull ups a day and you do them in 5 se

ts of 10 and they are 20 seconds long each then that means that you are burning around 14 calories per day. It’s not a lot but if you will do it consistently for one month then you will lose around 420 calories in total which is worth a small single meal. Of course, you should take a rest after strength training to let your muscles grow.

If you would like to burn more calories while doing pull ups then you have a lot of potential options:

  • Slowing down pull ups – Slowing down every single pull up can make it way harder for you, which ends up in burning more calories.
  • Doing more sets of pull ups
  • Adding more different exercises to your workout routine

Are pull ups safe?

We should avoid injuries, but there is no 100% guarantee that you are able to avoid them. Pull ups are one of the safest exercises due to their simplicity and the fact that your obstacle is only your body’s weight, so your body should be already used to its weight.

If you are worried about your joints then you should definitely consider working out on slightly softer flooring like for example fitness mats, to reduce the pressure that is put on your joints while doing pull ups. Also falling on that fitness mat is very likely to prevent you from most injuries.

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