Find out how pull-ups build total body strength and enhance your fitness. Master this powerful exercise for lasting results.

Female fitness coach, Robyn Shaw Jarvis, says pulling yourself vertically upward to the bar puts the shoulders in a “pretty ...

reading a list of the muscles pull-ups work makes it clear that the exercise effectively targets far more than just your arms, says Danelle Rivera, CPT, a certified personal trainer and group ...

When a muscle contracts (bunches up), it gets shorter and ... Muscles can only pull and cannot push. Therefore muscles have to work in pairs to move a joint. One muscle will contract and pull ...

They may only require you and the bar, but pull-ups are a test of pure strength. They take time and dedication to execute, but while they’re hard they’re not impossible. “The pull-up is one ...

Of any calisthenics exercise, pull-ups are the most difficult to perform and see improvements without significant time and effort. Your pulling muscles (biceps, latissimus dorsi, rear deltoids ...

Strong Women trainer Emma Obayuvana demonstrates how to strengthen your lat muscles to help you do a pull-up in this quick 10 minute workout. Pull-ups are arguably one of the toughest bodyweight ...

Within seconds of hanging, gravity worked its ... I went from zero pull-ups to my first-ever unassisted rep. Dead hangs strengthened my grip and engaged my scapular muscles – the unsung heroes ...

Pull-ups, lat pull-downs and bent-over rows hit ... gym— such as leg curls and leg press— allow the major leg muscles to be worked to failure without minimal requirement for upper body ...

As a result of incorporating lots of physically taxing compound movements, a full-body workout can be rather intense and will ...