Back strength is crucial to mastering pull-ups, so you’ll want to strengthen several target muscles: your latissimus dorsi, which runs from your rib cage to hips, and your middle and lower trapezius, ...

Once you can hold yourself at the top of a pull-up—chin over bar—for at least 10 seconds, it’s time to focus on lowering yourself slowly and with control. This is called the eccentric phase of a ...

Take a resistance band, secure one end of the band to the top of a pull-up bar ... Use a step or a small table to reach the pull-up bar where your chin is above the bar. Grab the bar with an ...