PULL-UP BARS are essential home gym equipment. It’s a grand statement, but we stand by it. Pulling yourself from a dead hang until your chin is over a bar recruits all of your back muscles, requires ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Pull-up bars are essential equipment. It’s a grand statement, but we stand by it. Pulling yourself from a ...

Here's exactly what you're working when you hit the bar to do one of the most comprehensive upper body exercises ...

A pull-up bar is the ultimate home gym essential: It's compact, versatile and capable of delivering a serious strength workout without taking up precious space. This simple piece of home exercise ...

In its simplest terms, the pull-up seems pretty basic: hang from a bar, then pull yourself up to it. It’s not complicated, but that sure doesn’t mean that it’s easy. In fact, this bodyweight, no-fancy ...

Hanging from a pull-up bar can improve your grip strength and shoulder mobility—but dead hangs are also kind of overrated. Hanging from a pull-up bar, without doing a pull-up, may look like a ...

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 ...

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At the gym or in the wild, you will see many different ways to grip the pull-up bar. But which is the best way? The only solid answer is: It depends. A wide variety of grips can make your pull-up ...

The biggest challenge of doing pull-ups is performing the first one, which is a pure strength exercise, and this single pullup tends to take the most time to develop for most people. However, ...

After a long day hunched over my laptop, my body sometimes feels like a crumpled up ball of paper ready to be thrown in the trash. Just standing straight again can be a real, um, stretch. But I’ve ...