BODYWEIGHT BACK TRAINING is never easy. The gold standard movement is the pullup—which can be devilishly hard to do for even seasoned gym-goers—and there are sparingly few other exercises that hit ...

Set up a bar in a rack at waist height. Grab it with a wider than shoulder-width overhand grip and hang underneath. Position yourself with heels out in front of you and arms fully extended. Your body ...

Are you looking to increase back, shoulder, and arm strength but not ready for a vertical pullup? Consider the “down under” version, otherwise known as the Australian pullup, or inverted row. Pullups ...

Set up a bar in a rack at waist height. Grab it with a wider than shoulder-width overhand grip and hang underneath. Position yourself with heels out in front of you on a raised platform and arms fully ...

Using a bar that is adjusted to the height of your hips, take a shoulder-width overhand grip and slowly walk your legs under the bar until you are hanging at a 30- to 45-degree angle from the floor ...

Sit on the floor, and grasp the bar above you with an overhand grip (your hands should be shoulder-width apart with your arms straight and your legs extended out in front of you) (A). Keep your feet ...