Yewki
The Yewki is a great exercise for combining core strength and the pull-up. It allows an athlete to prepare for harder ring combinations.
- Type Of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats, Biceps, Forearms, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Pull-up Bar
Yewki
- Begin from a dead hang on a pull-up bar with an overgrip or neutral grip on parallel bars.
- Keep your body completely straight and initiate a pull-up motion.
- As you pull, allow your body to drift backward, keeping it straight, until it is parallel with the floor in a bent arm front lever.
- You must keep posterior pelvic tilt at all times, never piking at your hips.
- Pause briefly in the bent arm front lever, with your elbows bent 90-degrees.
- Lower back to the dead hang with control and repeat for reps.
- Exercise: TOPS Pull
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats, Biceps, Forearms
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Pull-up Bar
- Exercise: Half Front Lever Pull
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats, Biceps, Forearms
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Pull-up Bar
