Muscle Up

Muscle Up is a compound strength exercise using other that trains the lats.

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Primary muscles: Lats

Secondary muscles: Abdominals, Biceps, Forearms, Middle Back, Shoulders, Traps, Triceps

How to do it

1. Grip the rings using a false grip, with the base of your palms on top of the rings. Initiate a pull up by pulling the elbows down to your side, flexing the elbows.
2. As you reach the top position of the pull-up, pull the rings to your armpits as you roll your shoulders forward, allowing your elbows to move straight back behind you. This puts you into the proper position to continue into the dip portion of the movement.
3. Maintaining control and stability, extend through the elbow to complete the motion.
4. Use care when lowering yourself to the ground.

Track it with MyoAmigo

MyoAmigo pre-fills every set of the Muscle Up from last time, charts your estimated 1RM trend so you can see strength move without testing a true max, and flags a stall with a concrete fix. It also credits this work toward your weekly Lats volume on the MyoMap heatmap. New to the movement? Start with picking a working weight and progressive overload.

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