Instructions

• Hold your trunk tight and keep your back straight
• Hold the bar at shoulder width
• Palms facing forward
• Tuck your legs up
• Do not swing your body to assist the action
• Lift with your arms
• Raise your chin above the bar - Don’t hit your head on the ceiling
• Squeeze your lats at the apex
• Lower yourself so your arms almost fully extend

Muscles involved

• Trapezius
• Latissimus Dorsi
• Teres Major
• Rhomboids
• Posterior Deltoid
• Infraspinatus
• Biceps Brachii