How To: Practice wide grip pull ups for upper body strength

Learn how to do wide grip pull ups. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life.

Benefits
The Gravitron machine is excellent for pull-ups because it provides you with the support to do pull-ups while maintaining proper form, allowing you to max out your muscles. The wide-grip pull-ups focus the work on your lats in particular.

Muscles Worked
Back (lats)

Starting Position
Stand on the platform of a Gravitron machine and hold on to the grips at the top with your hands wide (about six to eight inches more than shoulder-width apart on each side) and your palms facing away from you. Step off of the platform and onto the foot rests, allowing your body weight to bring you down until your arms are fully extended.

Exercise
1. From the starting position, lift yourself up until your head fully clears the Gravitron's grips and your shoulders are almost touching the grip bars. Keep your posture tall, shoulder blades retracted, and chest up in order to keep the work in your lats throughout.
2. From the top, reverse position and lower yourself back down to starting position.