Welcome to the first edition of “Do This Exercise”!

Today I want to introduce you and coach you through the: Olympic Bar (Obar) Overhand Pullup.

I’m not trying to force you into anything 😉 I just really think you could benefit ‘strongly’ from playing with this particular exercise in your workout routine.

This exercise can work for you regardless of your current fitness level, if you’re prenatal or postnatal, if you’re just beginning to strength train or if you’re a more advanced lifter. It’s modifiable to most everyone.

A few reasons why you should do this exercise:

• To gain strength in the upper body

• To train for traditional pull-ups or chin-ups

• To improve your posture and alignment

• To increase your grip strength, so you can load other exercises with heavier weights

• *They’ll make you feel like a total bad-ass in the gym 😉

Here is your starting and ending position in the Obar Pull-Up : 

Obar Pullups Start:End

Here is your middle position in the Obar Pull-Up: 

Obar Pullups Middle

Here’s how to perform the Obar Pull-up: 

1). Set up under an olympic bar in a squat rack. The higher the bar, the less spicy the exercise. The lower the bar, the more spicy the exercise. Choose your intensity level based on this.

2). Hands are in an overhand grip, slightly wider than shoulder width apart. The feet are straight ahead and planted firmly on the group. The knees are bent to 90 degrees.

3). Squeeze your bum to lift the hips up. Squeeze through your back and arm muscles to pull yourself straight up towards the olympic bar. You want to pull the middle of your sternum towards the bar.

4). With control, return back down to the starting position, keeping good alignment the whole time (keep squeezing the glutes!).

Watch the Obar Pull-up in action:

Additional coaching cues to help you master this move: 

Give it a try and let me know how you like it 🙂

JMG

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