08/12/2025
💎Mastering pull-ups‼️
🔵This requires consistent practice, focusing on proper form, and incorporating specific strength-building exercises like negative pull-ups, inverted rows, and lat pulldowns. This compound exercise works multiple muscle groups, including the lats, biceps, rhomboids, trapezius, forearms, and core.
💠Proper Pull-Up Technique💯
Focus on engaging the correct muscles and maintaining stability throughout the movement.
🔷️Grip the Bar: 🔹️Use an overhand (pronated) grip with hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.✅
🔷️Engage Core and Scapula:🔹️ Tighten your abdominal muscles to stabilize your body (hollow body position) and pull your shoulder blades down and back before initiating the pull. A useful cue is to think about "breaking the bar in half".✅
🔷️Pull Up: 🔹️Pull your body upwards, aiming to get your chin above the bar. Focus on driving your elbows down towards your back pockets.✅
🔷️Lower Down:🔹️ Slowly and with control, lower yourself back to the starting position until your arms are fully extended. The slower the descent (eccentric phase), the more strength you build.✅
💠Exercises to Build Strength💯
To build strength for pull-ups, incorporate exercises like negative pull-ups, inverted rows, lat pulldowns, assisted pull-ups, scapular pull-ups, and bent-over rows.
💠Progression and Programming💯
ℹConsistency in practice is key. Focus on progressive overload, aiming for 3️⃣➡️8️⃣ reps, and consider adding weight once you can do multiple sets of standard pull-ups. Varying training methods can help overcome plateaus📈, and it's important to be patient as building pull-up strength takes time❗💥💪💯✅