Search for #invertedpullups and you'll see a lot of people doing #invertedrows and the odd one or two doing #invertedshrugs. The exercise I am doing in this video is the inverted pull-up. They're like a standard pull-up, but I'm inverted. You can call it an inverted dumbbell pull-up if you like, but it's still the inverted pull-up. I'm sure I wasn't the first person to do them, but I came up with the idea a few years ago after working on progressions some gymnasts use for the iron cross. I've been doing standard pull-ups since I was 10 years old and they've been in almost all of my upper or pull routines since I started training seriously 12 years ago, but I realised they were hindering my recovery from golfer's elbow last year so I had to stop doing them. I still needed to exercise my #lats but I don't have the luxury of machines or cables to do pull-downs with, so I introduced slow tempo inverted pull-ups with relatively light dumbbells (half the weight of the ones I'm showing off with in this video) into my program and my elbows are all but healed after several months of slowly increasing intensity and volume. Band-assisted pull-ups might be okay too, but as well as being able to use a lighter load for the full movement, dumbbells offer the additional benefits of reducing imbalances in strength and size, greater stabilizer muscle activation and increased range of motion. Some people THINK they're dangerous. No, I'm not going to slip and being upside-down for a minute doesn't make me sick or dizzy. In fact, inverted pull-ups are probably the least dangerous part of my day. #invertedpullup #inverteddumbbellpullup #inverteddumbbellpullups #inverted #pullups #dumbbells #latissimusdorsi #vegan #fitness #veganfitness #ukfitfam #bodybuilding #strengthtraining #golferselbow #hiddenorchestra #throwbackthursday https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwog3L_AWuT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=os79nb495g17
