Video: Tips on Doing an Inverted Pull Up Exercise

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Learn some great tips on doing an inverted pull up exercise from our expert in this free fitness video on cross fitness pulling upper body exercises.

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And now I'm going to show you an exercise that you can do in place of dumbbell or barbell shrugs, it's called in inverted shrug. What this is, is this a pull from the bottom to the top. We're using dip bars, also known as parallel bars in gymnastics. These are just short ones and they're plenty sturdy to hold me. You want to make sure of that and you want to make sure your comfortable enough with being upside down before you try this, and that you can hang onto the bars. If you can't hang on to the bars, you should not be messing with this exercise. If it worries you, then don't do it. We get into position, hanging upside down. This is stabilization for your shoulders, if you can't tell, I have to keep myself balanced. Then we are going to do a shrug. Not a very common exercise to find this one. But, if you don't have weights and all you have is dip bars, this is something you can do. Arms are straight, we're not pulling with the elbows on this one. You just shrug the shoulders to the ears, stay balanced, and that's that. Lower yourself down slowly. Key thing on this exercise is don't let go. If you choose to do this and get upside down, the nice this that these aren't very high off the ground, but you don't want to let go. You want to make sure you can hold up your body weight in that position. Those are inverted shrugs and those are a building block to our next exercise, the inverted pull up.

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Tips on Doing an Inverted Pull Up Exercise

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