Alright, basically this has been bugging me lately and I haven't been able to get an answer through videos (they happen to quickly, lol).
When you do a pull-up, you put your hands facing away on the bar and then you let yourself hang. In a proper pull-up, while hanging, you bring your shoulders back and then lift yourself up to the bar and then lower yourself so that your arms are back at the hanging position, BUT my question is that once you're back down and hanging do you allow your shoulders to come forward, then you retract them back again before doing the second one, or do you hold your shoulders back through the entire set?
Hope you all understand my question .
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10-06-2011, 02:20 AM #1
One question about proper pull-up form.
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10-06-2011, 02:24 AM #2
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10-06-2011, 02:39 AM #3
Alright, that's what I was thinking. Main reason I'm asking is because today I was doing pull-ups and for one set I did the going all the way back into the hanging and bringing my shoulders forward, then having to bring them back before every lift, and during that set it was extremely tiring because most of it was hanging, my shoulders felt odd and I wasn't getting that feeling in the lats that I was going for.
On the second set though, I kept my shoulders back the entire time, my pull-ups were much faster (of course, I go down slowly to keep that tension), and I felt a much better feeling in the end in my lats.
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10-06-2011, 03:35 AM #4
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10-06-2011, 03:59 AM #5
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10-06-2011, 05:07 AM #6
One thing I've found above else is that I have gone to different gyms and the shape of the pull up bars have affected more form greatly.
I just changed gyms last week and did back today and I feel that my new gyms bar has the slanted bits at the ends too far apart so it brings
my shoulder into it more which I don't like as much. I guess I'll be working on form more than anything for the next couple of weeks......
My two cents is you can either go all the way back down to almost limp or you can keep it taut, either way the most important thing is to
make sure you keep your chest up and out and your shoulders back, so yeah you wouldn't really go to fully limp. I like to keep it slow all the
way down though and and greater range of motion makes it feel more worthwhile.
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