The close - grip pull up offers greater stability and reduces the risk of injury, while effectively activating
the same major muscle groups of the upper body musculature as the wide - grip variant and providing a greater engagement of the biceps to assist the motion.
Each move hits
the same major muscle groups as the old standbys, but challenges them more, giving you a stronger, sleeker body in the same amount of time.
Not exact matches
Pull - ups are another amazing bodyweight exercise that works a plethora of
major muscle groups at the
same time, including the latissimus dorsi, biceps, traps, pecs and forearms, and can be easily adjusted to emphasize different
muscles.
This means you should use heavy weight that will activate a number of
muscle groups at the
same time, both
major and minor ones.
Instead, you could have one primary workout for a
major muscle group, and then train that
same muscle group on a different day after training another
muscle group.
Lifting with free weights, or body weight, in order to fatigue the
muscles and truly overload would be limited by joint issues, the number of exercises any one individual can perform (body weight limits
major muscle group exercise selection that's due to overload and relies often on speed: not the
same resulting
muscle increase).
When creating your workout program plan you will need to set a certain day of the week for a
major muscle group to be focused, and rarely pick two
major muscle groups for the
same day.
If you do all of these exercises you will hit all your
major muscle groups, You can do these exercises circuit style and get your heart rate up at the
same time or pair each one with a dumbbell exercise for a challenging super set workout.