A plain black steel pull-up bar mounted on a bare concrete garage wall above an empty black rubber mat, with hard morning light from a window casting the bar's shadow across the wall

What Muscles Do Pull-Ups Work? A Muscle-by-Muscle Guide

Your lats do the most work in a pull-up, and the biceps, rotator cuff, shoulder-blade muscles, chest and trunk all join in. This guide goes muscle by muscle through what lab studies measured, how the...
A plain barbell set at hip height in a squat rack above an empty rubber mat in a home garage gym, the starting setup for an inverted row

How to Do an Inverted Row: Setup, Form and Progressions

Hang under a bar or straps, keep your body rigid and pull your chest to your hands. This guide gives the steps in order, then the three settings, body angle, feet and grip, that make...

Neutral Grip Pull-Ups: How to Do Them and What They Work

The neutral grip pull-up loads the same back and arm muscles as other grips, with less middle trapezius than the overhand version. Get the form, what the shoulder study did and did not test, and...

Come si fa una trazione supina: tecnica, muscoli coinvolti e la tua prima ripetizione

Palmi verso di te, mento sopra la sbarra, discesa controllata. Tra trazione supina e trazione prona c'è meno differenza di quanto si creda in palestra. Dentro: indicazioni precise sulla tecnica, cosa hanno misurato gli studi...