I’m following Alan Thrall’s video on this exercise and it’s irritating as hell. I can’t reach my chest/upper body consistently. And when I do, it’s usually one arm reaching it first the the other - in other words, it seems like my arms are imbalanced in strength and they can’t bring the bar up at the same time.

Also, I’ll occasionally feel a sharp pain in my shoulders when doing this and I have no idea why. In conclusion, I hate this shit.

Any tips or alternatives that train the same groups? I’d do chin ups, but I’m trying to do rows to build up muscles for chin ups :agony-deep:

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        Absolutely. I do almost exclusively bodyweight workouts and I can do hella pull-ups. They're brilliant for lat activation and they won't fuck up your joints. Defo give them a go, and if they're too easy then invest in a pair of rings and modify it.

        I do 5 sets of 8-12, but I used to do 3 and that was fine too.