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Typewriter Pull-Up

Lats · Biceps · Shoulders · Middle back · Forearms · Bodyweight

How to do it

  1. Hang from a pull-up bar with your hands set wide, well outside shoulder width.
  2. Pull yourself up until your chin clears the bar, finishing close to one hand.
  3. Keeping your chin above the bar and your arms bent, shift your body sideways across the bar toward the other hand, like a typewriter carriage.
  4. Pause once you reach the far hand, staying at the top of the pull throughout the shift.
  5. Shift back across to the starting hand, still without lowering.
  6. Lower yourself under control to a full dead hang to complete one repetition.
Primary muscle
Lats
Secondary muscles
Biceps · Shoulders · Middle back · Forearms
Equipment
Bodyweight
Sides
One side at a time
Directions
Forward, then backward