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How to Do a Proper Pull-Up
To complete a full pull-up, you have to lift your body upward from a dead hang position to bring your chin above the pull-up bar. Pull-ups use an overhand grip on the bar, as opposed to the underhand grip of chin-ups.
On average, women have 50-60 percent of the upper body strength of men, primarily due to men having more upper body muscle than women. As such, many women will find it more challenging to perform a pull-up in comparison…
… but that should never be a discouraging factor.
If anything, look at it as added motivation to be able to complete them.
Step-by-Step Guide to Doing a Pull-Up
Stand on a block or a bench just below the bar.
Grab the bar with an overhand grip (wrists pronated, with palms facing away from you) with your hands about shoulder-width apart.
Allow your feet to come off the block/bench and gently let your body hang. In this dead hang position, your arms should be fully extended.
Engage your core and find full-body tension by squeezing your glutes and flexing your quads.
To initiate the pull, depress your lats (imagine pulling your shoulder blades down and into your back pockets) and then start pulling upward to bring your chin over the bar.
Complete the pull by squeezing your lats together.
Slowly extend your arms to return to a full hang position while maintaining full-body tension.