Because of the differences in grip, chin-ups mainly work muscles in the front of your body, whereas pull-ups focus on the back muscles.
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Armpit Pain During Pull-ups

Armpit pain from pull-ups may be due to muscle injuries in your teres major and latissimus dorsi muscles. Here’s how to ...
Pull-ups are an effective bodyweight exercise to build muscle and strength but can be intimidating. To learn how to do pull-ups, practice the right form and muscle engagement with scaled exercises. To ...
Achieving a pull-up is a significant fitness milestone for many people. First one, then maybe five, 10 or more: "The ability to do pull-ups is, in my book, an impressive sign of fitness and not a ...
The fitness world has rediscovered pull-ups as a foundational movement for achieving total body transformation. This versatile exercise, once viewed as a basic strength test, is now an integral ...
a certified personal trainer and co-founder and president of fitness at VICTRESS MVMT, a fitness training facility in Lincoln, Nebraska “A true bodyweight pull-up can be considered the holy grail of ...
The next time you grab a pull-up bar, pay attention to where you place your hands because that can quickly turn a pull-up into a chin-up, and vice versa. While these two exercises look super similar, ...
Pull exercises are also great for echoing the movements we make day to day. “Pull exercises enhance the strength of the back, ...
Federal law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI, have added pull-ups to the special agent candidate fitness test. Here is a ...
A Surrey man has broken the world record for the number of muscle-ups completed in 24 hours. Charlie Rose, from Lightwater, ...
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Chest Pain After Pullups

Chest pain following pull-ups can stem from several causes, some of which are serious and others that should respond to simple care at home. It may indicate a muscle pull or spasm. However, it's not ...