How To Do Perfect Pullups (Top 10 Tips for Beginners)
GUNZILLA: The Ultimate Upper Body Trainer
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The Pullup is the ultimate bodyweight bodybuilding exercise. It builds your back, forges a vice-like grip & sculpts a V-shaped torso. Think of it like a spine-friendly deadlift for your upper body. Hanging from a bar decompresses your spine to nourish & hydrate your intervertebral discs.
Why are pullups such a struggle for most people? One, it involves all of your bodyweight. Two, your arms are overhead. This extreme joint angle challenges your mobility & stability to the max. Plus it creates a natural blood-flow restriction effect since oxygenated blood has to travel upwards against gravity.
In this deep dive, we’ll cover my top 10 pull up tips for beginners including:
- How to do perfect pullups
- The difference between the various grips
- Corrective exercises to bulletproof the shoulders
- Pullup regressions & progressions
- Supplemental exercises to boost your pulling power
- And much more!
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