Do chinups hit your back as well as pullups...?

[SofaGeorge]

maybe your biceps isn't injured...maybe it's the brachialis, which would be the muscle that would be worked if you're using the palms facing away grip. Kinda the same motion as doing hammer curls.

"Ah, I see," said the blind man.

That makes sense. This might be the brachialis. I should have thought of that. Thanks.

 

[Thaibox]

Alright, regardless...I think palms facing away from you hits your back more.

After the smoke clears....I agree.

 

[Bulldog_10]

Thanks.

No problem buddy! Glad I could help.

 

[blinddeafmute]

"Ah, I see," said the blind man.

That makes sense. This might be the brachialis. I should have thought of that. Thanks.

Ah I see,
Ah I hear ya,

Said the blind deaf mute man.

I always thought that chins and pulls were the same thing and could be used for either grip. I thought you described grip by saying supinated or pronated.

Anyway, I think palms away wider than shoulder grip hits the back more. Just from what I can feel. I pull in along with up and it seems to hit my back pretty hard. I have also found that I can concentrate on using my back more than my bicep to make the pull and it doesnt fatigue my bicep as much.

 

[kingc_79]

Do you guys find that chins (palm facing you) or a lot easier than pullups? I sure do, in fact it feels like it's mostly bicep flexion to me.

i find the opposite w/me. palms out is always worked better and less awkward. and btw when i was in service we had to do these in a test every 6 mos and they called them "pullups" and said you can do them palms out or in. i always thought that. i dunno....o well.

 

[SofaGeorge]

Trivia idiocy to add to this:

I used to be a writer/producer in the entertainment industry. I've worked a lot of idiotic projects... including some totally wierd pilots for TV shows that never made it to air. I was doing game show testing years ago back in the '80s. We would drive 2 hours north every day to Gorman... north of LA... to this ranch in the middle of nowhere. (It's the type of place only dirt bikers ever see... remote remote remote.) The guy who owned the ranch was a special effects hand. He would build giant cross bows... catapults... hanging bridges... suspension pulleys so you could sword fight while flying... all this wierd ass shit. We'd have a blast all summer testing the equipment they were going to use for new adventrue game shows... then after we'd worked the bugs out of it (by screwing up big time!) we'd put an announcement in the trade papers and interview contestants.

We didn't want to reinvent the wheel... so we got a copy of AMERICAN GLADIATORS screening process. It listed all the physical things a contestant had to be able to do in order to be eligible. One of the things on the list:

Every contestant had to be able to do 50 chinups in one set!

This blew my cookies to read. I considered myself pretty buff at teh time, and pullups/chinups were one of my specialties... and I sure as hell couldn't do 50 chins. I couldn't believe we were going to be able to find people who could do that many. (I was dying for every rep after 25... making it to 30 was done one hope and a prayer only... and in horrible form for the last couple.)

We hired a couple of the contestant interviewers from American Gladiators to help us screen the contestants. That is when I got the eye opener... cuz every person they interviewed was able to do 50 chins... easy.

When I do a chin or pullup... I go all the way down... full hang... then come all the way back up. These people would all barely dip a 1/4 of the way below the bar then come back up... no extension at all. Scrawny ass punks were able to easily blast out 50.

I learned that day - an exercise differs greatly by interpretation.

 

[Backlash]

Do you guys find that chins (palm facing you) or a lot easier than pullups? I sure do, in fact it feels like it's mostly bicep flexion to me.

Same for me. Thus, I do them palms out to try to work my back more.

 

[PolishHammer1977]

Chin ups work the middle of my back more

Pull ups work my lats more

 

[The Red Dragon]

Supinated grip: palms in, like doing bicep curls, underhand grip
Pronated: palms out, pullups/bent over rows overhand grip. I neglected to switch grips, I always do pullups, I should do chins too.

 

[Debaser]

Hence, I go with the Marine corps description - palms facing in.

My friend is a marine, and I believe they are tested with their palms facing out (makes more sense, if your'e climbing a wall or something)

The real difference is like a reverse curl vs. a regular curl. Palms facing you (supinated) works the biceps more, palms out (pronated) works the forearms more.

That's the reason you can generally do more weight with a supinated grip. How many of you can reverse curl more than you can curl?