How do you perform this exercise?
- Stand facing a high bar with your feet shoulder-width apart.
- Reach up and grab the bar with an overhand grip, slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.
- Hang from the bar with your arms fully extended and your body straight.
- Engage your lats and biceps to pull your chest up towards the bar, leading with your sternum.
- Pause for a moment at the top, then slowly lower yourself back down to the starting position.
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Which other muscles are involved?
Biceps, Rhomboids, Rear deltoids.
How do you log your sets?
How do you track progressive overload?Source: ExerciseDB catalogue and demonstration. Related movements are options to compare, not equivalent loads or a prescribed progression.
