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Muscles Used

Instructions

  • Hold your trunk tight and keep your back straight
  • Tuck your legs up
  • Do not swing your body to assist the action
  • Hold a wide grip, more than shoulder width
  • Palms facing forward
  • Lift with your arms
  • Raise your chin above the bar - Do not 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
— Mark @ 8:25 am, June 1, 2006


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