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Coaching cue Fast transition, chest up.
Muscle Up This skill is essentially a pull-up followed by a dip. It is used to take yourself from below a set of rings or bar to above a set of rings or bar. Many can do a pull-up, and many can do a dip, but transitioning between the two takes a certain level of strength and coordination. No single bodyweight exercise works your entire upper body as thoroughly as a muscle-up. It is truly the king of bodyweight exercises, bar none. *Use false grip •Pull rings to chest and keep them close •Lean forward while pulling elbows back •Press to extension The muscle-up is astonishingly difficult to perform, unrivaled in building upper body strength, a critical survival skill, and most amazingly of all, virtually unknown.
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