Strength · Vertical pull · Bodyweight
Pull-ups
Pull-ups is a strength exercise with your bodyweight that mainly works the lats, with help from the upper back, biceps and forearms.
How to do it
- Overhand grip, a little wider than the shoulders
- Start from straight arms, shoulders active
- Pull the elbows down and back towards the ribs
- Chin over the bar, lower under control all the way
In Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead starts you on 3 sets of 5–8 reps with 3:00 rest. When every set reaches 8 reps, add 2.5 kg, or 5 lb if you train in pounds of extra weight, or keep adding reps.
Muscles worked
Mainly
- Lats
Also
- Upper back
- Biceps
- Forearms
Joints it loads
- Elbow some
- Grip and forearms some
With an injury here, the app warns you before this exercise.
Log it in Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead works out your next set of pull-ups, and every other lift, from your own numbers.
Test it before releaseSimilar exercises
The same movement, done another way: what the app suggests when you swap.