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Wide-grip pull-up progression

From easiest to hardest. Move to the next step when you can do the current one with good form.

  1. Wide-grip pull-up · Intermediate · reps
    A pull-up with an overhand grip about 1.75 times shoulder width: from a dead hang the elbows pull down and out to the sides until the chin clears the bar, then the body lowers to straight arms.
  2. Typewriter pull-up · Advanced · reps
    From the top of a wide-grip pull-up, the body slides sideways along the bar toward one hand, so that arm bends fully while the other straightens, then slides across to the other hand before returning to the centre and lo
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