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Pull-ups

Description

Grab the pull up bar with a wide grip, the body is hanging freely. Keep your chest out and pull yourself up till your chin reaches the bar or it touches your neck, if you want to pull behind you. Go with a slow and controlled movement down, always keeping the chest out.

Muscles

Front

Back

Primary muscles

Lats

Secondary muscles

Front deltoid
Biceps
Trapezius

Similar exercises

1-Arm Half-Kneeling Lat PulldownBack · Cable machine
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Alternating High Cable RowBack · Cable machine
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Assisted chin-upsBack

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Description and images from the open wger exercise database, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (authors: Gianluca Vespignani (imported from Feeel), wger.de, Clément Mondon (imported from Feeel), flexagoon (imported from Feeel), Daan Vervacke (imported from Feeel), Eric (imported from Feeel)). Translations by Calix are shared under the same license. Muscle diagrams: wger project (AGPL-3.0).