Unless you’re naturally gifted with enough upper body strength to haul your body weight over the bar, pull-ups may not be in your exercise routine yet. Maybe you rep them out for fun, you’re working ...

There’s something so satisfying (not to mention badass) about a smooth, powerful pull-up—one that feels controlled from start to finish, no jerky movements, no swinging legs, just pure strength. But a ...

The fitness world has rediscovered pull-ups as a foundational movement for achieving total body transformation. This versatile exercise, once viewed as a basic strength test, is now an integral ...

Many people struggle with pull-ups at first, but with practice, this exercise can be rewarding and can build upper-body pulling and grip strength. Fortunately, you can still build the necessary ...

Ahhh, that first pull-up feeling. I’d say it took me about two years from knowing what a pull-up was to being able to do one, which sort of just…happened, in September 2020, on my home pull-up bar.

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I’d been attending CrossFit workouts for two months before I began to learn the Kipping Pull-Up. Until that point, every Pull-Up I’d ever performed had been the more traditional strict, dead-arm hang, ...