Pull up bar

Pullups is a back exercise mainly, a close grip works your inner back more, a wider grip works your outer back more and will make your back bigger overall. If you have your hands facing each other, or inside towards your face, it works your biceps more obviously. Hands facing the backside of the bar work your shoulders more i think. Not sure about it, but i think so. Really, it works your whole arms and back a little bit though.

 

Mainly your biceps for your arms and your lats in your back. For your abs hang on and lift your knees to your chest in a controlled motion and then lower them slowly

 

Don't know what you mean by "lower it to work your abs" but you can try L-pullups. Hold your legs out straight infront and do pullups.

This content is protected

 

I'm a huge advocate of Pullups/chinups, there one of the few exercises that work your whole upper body. I myself have been doing Chinups for years, but I just started doing pullups, maybe a year or two ago, and I not only seen progress in my back, but my neck got bigger as well.

Here's two tips you may want to try, while doing your pullups, keep your eyes on the ceiling, it will help you pull your shoulder blades in more, which in return targets your back more effectively.

While doing chinups, if your looking to put some serious size on your biceps and get an awsome pump, get an underhanded grip and your hands 6 inches away from each other, and when you come up make a muscle and hold for a second, it really works well.

 

Punisher, they are one of my favorites also. I do em with towels, ropes, rings, thick bars, anything to make it more of a challenge.
Did you see Pulver doing them with tennis balls on top of the bar? I want to try that.

 

:good No I havent, is it on youtube?

I love chinups, I used to do those and pushups up until 16, when I got into lifting more. I was pretty good at chinups, my record for one handed chinups is 10 or 11, regular chinups is 27 in a row, though I was much smaller then at 5'10 140, now I'm about 195 6'0-6'1 and can only do 4 one handed chinups and maybe 18 or 19 regular ones in a row, weight and arm length have alot to do with it.

I never tried all the ways you have, but did do the towel a few times.

 

Punisher, Here is the pull ups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo7aFkmyysc

 

I cut out pullups and chinups and only do towel pullups now and I find that they are great for developing gripping strength and upper back strength. In my opinion it's a great exercise for boxers/martial artists to use and is a combination of the above two exercises. Pullups hit the back and then biceps... the chinups hit the biceps and then back. Towel pullups develop a strong grip (good for boxing), strong biceps (not really needed, but still nice), and a strong back (which is necessary just for general fitness).

 

Thanks my man, I dont even know if I want to attempt to do them, they look pretty hard.

 

does doing pullups or chinups effect the forearm?

 

and where is a good site to buy a pullup bar?

 

Yes they do work the forearms a bit.

I bought mine from Argos years ago and it's still fine despite costing only £10.

 

I cant do two goddamned pullups.

atsch