How to Do Pull Ups for Strength Training

Video Transcript

Off-season training for football: Pull-ups. Again, this is the third exercise in our first super set. We're working on conditioning today. So what I want you to do with your pull-ups today is to take it to the max on each time that you come to the pull-ups. So [PH] Jonesy go ahead and give it a shot here. And as Jonesy demonstrates, I just want to give a couple of reminders about form here is that one, I want you to come all the way down and then all the way up. Try to get your chin to reach above your knuckles as you go, okay? Take it to the max as you can and then come back to it on the next round for this super set. I want to talk about grip variations right now. We've done pull-ups and other workouts. So to keep it from being monotonous, we want to also work different grip variations such as underhand grip, the overhand grip, a wide grip, a close grip for underhand which would be like that and alternate grip where one hand is over and one hand is under, reverse it, and also sideways where you're taking both hands here. You may have to stack your hands and then when you pull up, you come off to one side, back down and then up to the other side. So those are variations for pull-ups, again working to the max each time that you do it for this super set in our conditioning workout. So as Jonesy is going to show the variation here. So overhand grip, [DEMONSTRATION] underhand grip [DEMONSTRATION] and now a staggered grip, one overhand one underhand. And that's the pull-ups and that's going to be followed up with dips.