Wide Grip Pull ups Workout

Wide Grip Pull ups Workout...........

Muscles worked: Lateral muscles, shoulders secondary

Spotter Required: No

Minimum Equipment Required: pull-up bar with a wide grip

The best equipment to use: as above

Warm-up: pull-ups if the first exercise in the back workout I suggest warm-up, are having a lat pulldown machine with a wide grip. The latter lets you pull down machine, your warm-up sets a gradual increase in the weight lifting you do. Once the warm-up sets, you can start doing pull-ups completed. Example of a warm-up set:

Warm-up Set 1: 20% of the weight you normally lift 12 reps
Warm-up Set 2: 60% of the weight you normally lift 8 reps
Warm-up Set 3: 75% of the weight you normally lift 5 reps
Warm-up Set 4: 85% of the weight you lift in the rule for 3 reps
Warm-up Set 5: 95% of the weight you normally lift for 1 rep

How often should this exercise: pull-ups are a great workout for the upper and middle back and should always be included in your back training.

When should this exercise: Wide grip pull-ups should be performed initially in the back training, since they consume much energy.

Grip on the pull-up bar with a wide overhand grip, wrap your thumb on the bar: how to do the exercise. A good way to make sure that you should be the correct grip width, your arms, a V-shape.

Begin to pull your body until your chest reaches to pull up bar at this point, slowly lower to the starting position with resistance all the way down. Do not you lock the arms at the lower position, bent always easy, as this keeps the back muscles tight throughout the exercise.

Pull-up tips: Easy to raise your arms so your shoulders are below your ears, do the soft tissue to relieve the shoulders and make the exercise easier. You want your body to prevent it does not keep pulling up during the swing, to do this, hold your abdominal muscles and buttocks clamped during training, you also keep your legs crossed. The final key to successful breast chin stuck out to ensure that the back muscles as efficiently as possible working. If you can not succeed in a pull-up with your own body weight I suggest you replace it for lat, until you can manage it down.


Mentality can pull any kind pf be hard, especially wide grip pull-ups. If you let go of fighting for just the bar and rest for 5 seconds, jump up again and put the set.