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Pullups

  • 09-04-2009 1:00pm
    #1
    keane2097
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    Can someone tell me what muscle groups pullups target? Say with hands shoulder-width, facing both towards and away from me?


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  • #2
    FTA69
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    They're compound excercises so they target a variety of muscles such as the back, lats and biceps.


  • #3
    ScissorPaperRock
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    Can someone tell me what muscle groups pullups target? Say with hands shoulder-width, facing both towards and away from me?

    Both target the Latissimus dorsi

    http://www.exrx.net/Muscles/LatissimusDorsi.html


  • #4
    rubadub
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    If you do knee raises or L-sits while doing your chins/pullups it is even more of a compound exercise. And surprisingly I do not find my reps going down much, if at all when doing this combination. But I usually do weighted ones now with a belt so cannot do them.

    OP when reading sites most will say chinups are palms facing you, pullups are palms away. I find chins get the bicep more, and pullups get the back more. Most can do more chins than pullups. If you are doing 3 sets you might go pullup, pullup/chinup, chinup. This means you start on the hard ones first and might be able to match those reps on your last "easier" set of chins.


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