Strengthen Your Chest Muscles (And Nail Your Pull-Up) With These Exercises Create total-body tension and generate more power at the bar. By Talene Appleton, NASM-CPT Published: Apr 14, 2025 7:00 ...

Pull-ups are a great exercise for building upper body strength, including the back muscles that stabilize the shoulders during push-ups. This freestanding pull-up bar dip station is a great option ...

The traditional pull-up delivers more of a challenge to your back and arm muscles than the traditional inverted row because you’re pulling your full bodyweight (versus just a portion of it), so ...

2. Build Your Muscular Endurance. Once you can hold yourself at the top of a pull-up—chin over bar—for at least 10 seconds, it’s time to focus on lowering yourself slowly and with control.

Perform negative reps by slowly lowering yourself from the top position of a pull-up or push-up, fighting gravity for 3-5 seconds. Use resistance bands as needed to achieve a full range of motion.

But don’t be fooled — your muscles are working harder than you may realize during eccentric movements. Christoph Handschin, who studies muscles at the University of Basel in Switzerland ...