"How Can I Improve My Chest To Bar?"

Coach Jessica Estrada recently received a question about chest to bar pull-ups: “I can do strict pull-ups, but I am having trouble with chest to bars. What progressions can I do?”
The biggest difference between pull-ups and chest to bar pull-ups is the strength and mobility components. Chest to bars require much more strength, and a greater range of motion , so that you can drive your elbows behind the body, without losing your midline.
Strict Chest to Bar Pull-Ups
1. The goal of the chest to bar is to make contact with the bar just below your clavicle. That requires a much greater range of motion in your upper body.
2. PVC Pipe Drill: Use this progression as a warmup to build strength, improve mobility, and initiate your muscles to start firing. Lay with your stomach on the group, PVC pipe in your pull-up grip, with your arms fully extended overhead. While lifting your chest, pull the PVC pipe as low as possible, and return back to your starting position.
Kipping Chest to Bar Pull-Ups
1. Like kipping pull-ups, you still want to maintain a hollow body at the top of your chest to bar.
2. As you perform the movement, drive your elbows back and down, and lean into the pull-up bar, as if you were trying to look at your toes from over the bar.
3. After hitting the hollow body position at the top of the chest to bar, push away from the bar in that same position, until you reach the bottom of the movement and swing into your arch position, allowing you to connect the next rep.
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You're welcome. Thanks for asking!

[@katiehood3667]

Really helpful! In the future could y'all back the camera up so we can see the full movement? It's hard to concentrate with it moving around so much. Also noticed this on the toes to bar video. Thanks for the tips!

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This is awesome! You described my major issue with not being able to link consecutive c2b!

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That's my problem I do almost like a row this was the most detailed explanation they way you worded it was perfect I been searching for days what I been doing wrong lol thank you

[@SabineW]

Love your videos Jessica, really like the PVC drill, will start using that!

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Jessica, thank you for making these videos. your instruction is excellent

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Thank you! Your videos and cues are super helpful!

[@CFJaakarhu]

You're welcome Olga!

[@kikkom2548]

Coming down, I have difficulty to stop at active hang and go back up. I tend to go down to dead hang and pull up, a waste of energy. What can I do?

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You got it boss!!!

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Hi. Good job! Haw many klios You can lift with the lat machine? Thanx and good luck.

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Good advice!! Keep up the good work girl

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Great, great advice!

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Very helpful ! Thanks

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Super useful thanks! 👌🙌💪

[@ryanlehmann6375]

You mentioned you should grab the PVC the same distance you do the bar. Is there a way to determine where you should grab the bar for c2b? I.e inches from the shoulder, distance you do a pvc pass through?

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Finally someone in CrossFit that does real pull-ups

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Such a great video- thank you!

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Great tips! THANK YOU!

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This is awesome.

[@BryanOnCamara]

Hello Jessica! Just want to say that I love the videos and they are very helpful while working to improve my gymnastic skills. I wanted to ask if there are any tips I could implement to improve my butterfly chest to bar pull-ups? I can do regular butterfly pull-ups as well as kipping chest to bar pull-ups but I have the hardest time stringing together butterfly chest to bar pull-ups. I always find myself do 1 or 2 then fall into a dead hang and have to start over. Please help 🙄

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great video, as usual

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Thank you for this as I get ready to do the old guy 17.2 (we get to c2b rather than bar MU). I know you probably can't answer this before Sunday 3/5/2017, but wondering if you have advice for an old guy surviving those 50' lunges with old knees? I'm damn determined to do the Rx. I'm going to die on this one.

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Leaning forward with your shoulders no good

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I guess all those perverts out there who peer over fences would be great at chest to bars

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