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Nov 9, 2018

Sweat Science: The Pull-Up Artists

Over the summer, both John Orth and Andrew Shapiro set their sights on 10,000 pull-ups. (Photo: PaulBiryukov/iStock)
Over the summer, both John Orth and Andrew Shapiro set their sights on 10,000 pull-ups.

John Orth is a violin maker from Colorado. Andrew Shapiro is a college kid from Virginia. They have little in common except that for the past two years, they’ve been trading back and forth the world record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours. Over the summer, they both set their sights on 10,000 pull-ups. It’s a number that would have been unthinkable two years ago, a number that seemed like it would reveal the very limits of what the human body can do. Instead they found a different limit.

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Outside’s longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life in audio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. We launched in March 2016 with our first series, Science of Survival, which was developed in partnership with PRX, distributors of the idolized This American Life and The Moth Radio Hour, among others. We have since expanded our show and now offer a range of story formats, including interviews with the biggest figures in sports, adventure, and politics, as well as reports from our correspondents in the field.

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