Achieving a pull-up is a significant fitness milestone for many people. First one, then maybe five, 10 or more: "The ability to do pull-ups is, in my book, an impressive sign of fitness and not a ...

Use one exercise to work your back and shoulders safely.

Pull-up muscles worked “Pull-ups mainly target your back muscles, with the latissimus dorsi 10 (aka “lats”) doing most of the heavy lifting,” Orsborn says.

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.

Using the muscles in your back, arms, and core, pull your body up towards the bar, bending your elbows. Stop when your chin is just over the bar. Pause, then lower back down to the start ...

Achieving a pull-up is a significant fitness milestone for many people. First one, then maybe five, 10 or more: “The ability to do pull-ups is, in my book, an impressive sign of fitness and not ...

A wide variety of grips can make your pull-up workouts more enjoyable and diversify the strain on wrists, elbows, shoulders, joints and muscles.

In Part 2 of a series on building the strength to do a pull-up, ... She says once you have mastered the TRX and assisted pull-up, you can move to a bar or pull-up machine. Williams, of Living ...

Chin up. Despite what you may have recently heard, doing a pull-up in 2013 is a perfectly reasonable resolution. Expert trainer Rachel Buschert explains why.

Just because some muscles aren’t associated with the pull-up, it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be active. In your starting position, engage the muscles in your core, back, arms and legs.

As part of the Women's Health Ultimate Pull-Up Plan, trainer Tina Tang, CPT, and Heather Milton, CSCS, of NYU Langone delve into how to do a pull-up for women.