Technique
- Perform a Pullup and tuck your knees to your chest.
- While staying tucked, lean your torso back to horizontal while straightening your arms.
- Pull yourself back to the vertical chin-over-bar position.
- Repeat the motion without lowering yourself to the starting position
Form tips
- Keep your arms fully straight during the lean back.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Rotator cuff
- Back
- Shoulders
- Triceps
- Biceps
- Forearms
- Chest
- Serratus anterior
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Teres minor
- Teres major
- Posterior deltoid
- Middle trapezius
- Latissimus dorsi
- Rhomboid major
- Triceps brachii (long head)
- Biceps brachii (short head)
- Brachialis
- Brachioradialis
- Lower trapezius
- Serratus anterior
- Pectoralis minor
Equipment
Appears in
Joint movements
Progressions
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