Muscle Ups
- Grab a pull-up bar with an overhand grip and hang from the bar without locking out your elbows.
- In one explosive movement, pull yourself up and bring yourself up to the bar. The bar should be at your belly button.
- Using your triceps, push yourself up as you would with a dip.
- Slowly lower yourself down to the ground and repeat.
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Muscle ups is a gym work out exercise that targets chest and upper back & lower traps and also involves abs and biceps and shoulders and triceps. Refer to the illustration diagram and instructions above for how to perform this exercise correctly. Spin / push up rotations, underhand grip barbell bench press and stability / swiss / exercise ball pushups / push-ups are related exercise that target the same muscle groups as muscle ups. Visit our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises to try in your workouts.
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