Muscles Worked by the Pull-Up Benefits of the Pull-Up Who Should Do the Pull-Up Frequently Asked Questions Editor’s note: The content on BarBend is meant to be informative in nature, but it shouldn’t take the place of advice and/or supervision from a medical professional. The opinions...
Muscles Worked by the Weighted Pull-Up The weighted pull-up engages many muscles in your upper body and your arms. Here are the main muscle groups trained by the exercise. Latissimus Dorsi The lats are the biggest and strongest back muscle. They go from your hip bone and lower spine to y...
If you want to perform kipping pull-ups once you’ve developed plenty of strict pull-up strength, have at it. But if you’re not intended to kip your pull-up, you might just becheating your formunintentionally by rocking your body up toward the bar. While a little bit of body English...
So, while pull-ups aren’t always as convenient to perform as push-ups, you should still be able to find or create somewhere to do them. Pull-up anatomy Just like push-ups, pull-ups are a compound upper body exercise that trains several important muscle groups simultaneously. The main m...
HAND ORIENTATION (SUPINATED, NEUTRAL, PRONATED) AND GRIP WIDTH ARE COMMONLY VARIED DURING PULL-UPS AND LAT PULL-DOWNS IN AN ATTEMPT TO FOCUS THE TRAINING ON SPECIFIC MUSCLE GROUPS OR TO ENSURE THAT THE MOVEMENT IS SPECIFIC TO THE SPORTING ACTION. THE AIM OF THIS ARTICLE WAS TO IDENTIFY...
You figure you’ll focus on pull-ups and lat pull-downs and that’ll take care of upper body strength. I have a few questions for you: Where are you working in your horizontal plane? When are you changing the planes around? Are you just overlapping strength curves?
It helps you perform arm extension and adduction (pulling inward). You use it when you pull something up or push something away from you like when holding something heavy above or below shoulder level (like a suitcase) or when pulling yourself up on a bar during chin-ups/pull-ups. ...
So if you’re looking to target the biceps more – go with the chin-up, and if you’re looking to hit the lats more – go with a pull-up. Each variation will emphasize certain muscle groups more/less depending on the one you choose. ...
Muscles Worked by Dumbbell Pullover The primary action resisted by the dumbbell pullover is shoulder extension. (1) Therefore, the exercise trains the muscles that extend the shoulder. Identifying these muscles may appear simple, but few exercises demonstrate the complexities of functional anatomy bett...
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