For most of my gym life, I had been doing sets of eight to ten reps, but breaking that down allowed me more time to rest the muscles, which meant more overall high-quality pull-ups accomplished during ...

a certified personal trainer and co-founder and president of fitness at VICTRESS MVMT, a fitness training facility in Lincoln, Nebraska “A true bodyweight pull-up can be considered the holy grail of ...

The gold standard bodyweight exercise is notoriously tough. Here's what you need to know about nailing solid reps.

If you are looking to join the military, or are a current service member thinking of attempting a transition to a special operations unit, then you probably need to improve your pull ups. Hell, if you ...

The pull-up is one of the most recognized and respected upper-body strength exercises on earth. If you’ve ever seen a training montage in film or television, you’ve probably seen the lead character ...

There are tons of ways to strengthen your upper body by using all sorts of dumbbells and kettlebells and bands. We know this already. So I'm here to tell you to set those aside and forget about that ...

Mastering push-ups and pull-ups requires progressing from building strength to developing muscular endurance. Conquering your first repetition of these calisthenics exercises is a matter of strength, ...

Former Special Forces Captain Oh Yo-han, 32, set the Guinness World Record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours by completing 11 ...

The next time you grab a pull-up bar, pay attention to where you place your hands because that can quickly turn a pull-up into a chin-up, and vice versa. While these two exercises look super similar, ...

In the field of strength training, modified variations of commonly performed exercises are often used to complement other areas of training. The rack pull, for example, is a deadlift variation in ...

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