Horizontal Pull Ups

[Vennom96]

I tried these for the first time yesterday during my back workout. I liked it. Anybody else do these? It's like a pullup but kick your legs up and support your feet on the bar in front of you and you have yourself a horizontal pull up.

 

[mister69]

they are called rack chins, great exercise.

I do them with weight

 

[Insane_Man]

I started doing those, they are wicked, but the form takes a little while to get right.

 

[Vennom96]

they are called rack chins, great exercise.

I do them with weight

Ah good to know. I've seen a bunch of people talking about rack chins but I had no idea what they were.

 

[Insane_Man]

they are called rack chins, great exercise.

I do them with weight

How do you attach the weight? The recommendation is to have a buddy place one of those preloaded barbells on your lap i think, but can you use a dip belt?

 

[mister69]

well what works best is place a 45lb plate face up then put a db on top of that, and if it rolls have ur training partner put a finger on it.

That exercise and Pullovers are both great lat exercises, same goes for reverse grip pulldowns or wide grip pulldowns

 

[Showdowner52]

explain how you do this in detail? lol.

 

[Vennom96]

explain how you do this in detail? lol.

Therss an apparatus, not really a machine, that has 4 "stations" at it. Two sides facing each other are pull up bars, one of the sides is a dip station, and the other side is a roman leg lift station. Jump up and hang on the pull up bar like you are gonna do a pull up, but kick your legs up and rest them on the oppostie pullup station and then just pull yourself up.

 

[Button Buck]

like this

just make sure to concentrate on not leaning back a lot because it quickly becomes a row just like if you lean way back on lat pull downs.

If a smythe machine isnt available I just do them in a rack. Hard to use weight without a buddy. When I do I have them just set plates in my lap and take them off when I'm done.

 

[Button Buck]

heres the pic, link didnt work

 

[Vennom96]

heres the pic, link didnt work

Thats not how I do them. There the guys upper body is still vertical, same thing as a pull up imo. When I do them my upper body is horizontal. My body is in a position as if I were laying on a decline bench.

 

[Button Buck]

Thats not how I do them. There the guys upper body is still vertical, same thing as a pull up imo. When I do them my upper body is horizontal. My body is in a position as if I were laying on a decline bench.

Yes, the whole point is to be doing a pullup movement to hit your lats, which is why in DC training they're under Back Width instead of Bakc Thickness. If your doing them completely horizontal then your doing a row, not a pullup.

Try them like this. It took me awhile to figure out how to do them right but once I did I loved them. Hits my lats muuuuch better than a regular pullup and also gives a badass stretch there too.

 

[Melbourne]

I've done what you're calling horizontal pull-ups as part of a cardio circuit. It wasn't like the illustration though.

I did them on the smith machine. I would lower the bar to about waist-high. I would use the bar to pull up on, like an upside down push up, if that makes sense. My heels would be on the floor and my body would be straight.