Garage Blog

In the world of upper body strength, the bench press can be seen as the front squat of the absolute strength developing exercises. The bench press is a pressing movement that is nearly unrivaled in regard to weight used and the strength developed with upper body pushing.

But if the bench press is the front squat of upper body strength, that makes the pull up the back squat of upper body strength. Where the bench press develops incredible pushing strength, the pull up, particularly if loaded up with weight hanging from a belt, develops monumental pulling strength.

When in the hanging position and fully lengthened, our rhomboids, lats, and traps will be initiating the bottom position. We really need to think of retracting our scaps using the rhomboids, traps, and lats to get out of the bottom position.