As of this moment, 67,000 views. No BS intro, no BS content, no BS sponsors. Let’s say you saved all of us just 2 minutes of BS. That’s 2,000+ hours of life saved. You are literally a life saver mate. 🥺

These pull ups with the triangle attachment is legit. I have never felt my lats on pull ups like this before. This is quickly becoming my go too channel!!!!!

The “old school” mentality of getting your chin up and over the bar and extending entirely at the bottom is what avoids a lack of mobility and weak scapula. Calisthenics Movement has some really good explanations on why the full range of motion during pull ups is important. These do look like a really good way to work out the lats, but there’s more than those which should be working during a pull up.

I highly recommend the resistance bands! After a an accident that completely destroyed my arm years ago, I couldn’t do a single pull-up, not even a push-up. Started with the thick resistance band in January, went to a thinner one in February and in March I was able to do 3-4 in a row without resistance. As someone who almost lost an arm and didn’t do any sports until Corona came, that’s quite the progress for me. Keep the videos coming!

"Follow the natural arc of the lats" Makes perfect sense. My 2nd or 3rd of your videos and I really appreciate the simple, common-sensical approach. Looking forward to more content

I love and appreciate how concise your are. So many videos are 10, 20 minutes long when they really only need to be 4. Thank you for cutting out the filler. Incredibly helpful. Much love and respect!

This has become my favourite fitness channel by far. The short videos with great exercises and dry humour really click with me. As a 50+ I love how you push for volume more than weight. Also the focus on mind muscle connection is a game changer for me. I am so much more in connection what I do and I'm feeling and seeing result after about a month already. Thank you so much !

Love the fact he isn’t trying to sell anything during the advice, simple and clear, so many others are missing the trick - this is what we want, no science or BS technical jargon a bit of simple anatomy and a whole lot of motivation... thanks Ryan you have taught me a lot..

This year... this guy is gonna blow up heavily. Haven't seen a video that hasn't helped me out, I love this content💯

Ryan always gives great advice, doesn’t over-present it and gets to the point! These are nice short videos that cover a lot of questions. Such good info every time!

"I will talk to you soon" that line inspires me a lot to train myself!

I like the absence of focus on the "length" of the pull but rather the focus on the muscles being worked and creating a purposeful state of disadvantage

Not trying to sell “weigh vests” or some other crap- just concise and straight to the point- love it!

This has been my favourite fitness channel so far. To see this giant, grown ass men squeeze out the last few reps with the face of utter exhaustion is ridiculously motivating. Also probably the only guy on youtube with sweat stains. Good stuff, keep it real!

Good stuff. As a 60 year old guy who went from being able to do 1 push-up to now hovering around 8-10 in a row (and this is really a newbie move), do 2 things: 1) start out by just hanging on the bar and doing down move only and start to build those muscles and 2) use a chair initially under your feet but only use it when you need it. After I did all that for a few weeks, I got to the stage where I can now do full pull-ups 8-10 of them and one of the best exercises but careful, cuz also one of the quickest ways to get injured.

This is such a concise video methodology that I feel like I'm growing my exercise repertoire with every video. Thanks for these.

Has anyone noticed that Ryan is the only fitness influencer that the other guys have nothing negative to say about? Coach Greg, MPMD, Johnny, Athlean etc etc. nobody says something bad. Ryan has a better format to his videos. Gets right to it, perfect info and mixes in comedy with entertainment flawlessly and all in the time you actually want it in. Great job Ryan keep up the good work🎉

I am 60 years old and restarted my pull up and push up workout in retirement, 3 months ago. At first I could only do 3 pull ups in good form. Now I can do 30 in a row! I also restarted my bicycling hill repeat training, lost 13 lbs and got my BMI down from 25 to 23.1. Although I can do 30 reps whether palms facing away or palms facing me, I prefer using the perpendicular shoulder width grips on my cheap doorway pull up bar as I feel this more neutral grip allows good mechanical advantage for the biceps, lats, and forearm grip. It is important to do complementary exercise , i.e. push ups (super sets) for muscle balance. Since push ups are easier, I add resistance and range of motion to the push ups with feet elevated on a bench and push up stands, for the same number of reps as my pull ups. I only do this work out every other day since at 50+ years one needs more recovery time and you are only really building muscle on the off days. Currently doing 30 pull ups, 30 feet raised push ups, 28 pull ups, 28 feet raised push ups, and then crossed ring planked rows (archery specific to increase my draw weight), with only brief rest in between sets, then repeat once. I feel like a 3rd set of pull ups and push ups would be too painful and risk tendonitis at my age. At age 50, I got up to 35 pull ups with a higher volume super set decrementing reps work out with many sets, but it got to be a painful chore and I could feel it in the biceps tendons. I think my current workout is safer, less time consuming, and more sustainable and have no desire to go above 30 reps. I think the key to breaking through from 20 to 30 reps is cardio as it becomes more of a slow twitch aerobic blood flow limitation to delay fatigue, rather than pure strength. You have to breath deeply and draw in lots of oxygen with each rep, even the early easy ones. Plus, the blood flow has to work against gravity to go from your heart to your forearms when doing pull ups. That is why I exercise on the bike using intense hill repeats where I attack the hills out of the saddle breathing really hard and deeply. It's all about VO2Max, cardiac output, and mitochondrial energy. Intense exercise multiplies your mitochondria, which generate your ATP energy. My work out doesn't make me a gym mass monster, but it does provide optimal health fitness and fantastic endurance/fatigue resistance for chores like mowing/raking the entire yard or shoveling snow. For more about mitochondria in fitness, check out champion cyclist Greg LeMond's "The Science of Fitness". His VO2 Max was one of the highest ever recorded.

There's another huge benefit to what you said here about "forget the chin over the bar old mentality" - Your movement in these forms saves a lot of shoulder strain. I was unhealthy for a very long time, and my shoulders paid the price. I will never, ever wide grip my chin over a bar, it's just too much strain and pain on my shoulders. Your video validated a lot of my approach to doing pull-ups focusing on the back, so thank you for that!

Best videos out there. I'm 48 been gymmin for YEARS, and his articulate descriptions demonstrates his acumen. Well done sir, great videos

No “ Ego “ editing , very clear transactions to his exercises and explanation . This dude needs his own work out dvd / program .

How to do more pull-ups: Starts doing pull-ups

Ok. I watched this video because I've put on some pounds and was no longer able to do a pull-up. I tried your "keep your elbow at 90 degree" thing and was able to do a couple. I'm back, baby. Thanks bud.

Pull ups my worst enemy. Amazing tips! Thank you.

Really good. Have learnt more from this than years of gym experience, magazines and books on this.

You've re-shaped the way I approach exercise and the results are unreal. I workout 4 days per week and never get sore...Until I lessened the weight and upped the reps. This feels amazing. Keep the content coming brother. Thank you.

No nonsense information. "Do this, you're welcome" video over. 100% Perfect!

First time ever coming across this channel and I must say, Ryan seems like he's a really nice guy :)

Going “back” is exactly what I felt when I changed up my technique and it didn’t take long to feel the burn, wow. A good way to help them engage too is high reps with a medium to heavy band assist; you can’t go too fast otherwise the entire exercise is thrown out of sync. Other than that a favorite lat exercise is deadlifting with horizontal band resistance to force lat contraction while keeping the bar close.

I’m a simple man, I see Ryan post a video, I hit like. P.S - PLEASE DO A NUTRITION VIDEO!

Your vlogs have been very helpful to me. I am an older fella so your calm, no BS, yet focused intensity has been especially helpful to me.

This guy knows what's he's talking about. Pull-ups are a magic exercise which will literally change you life. I've had 4 reconstructive surgeries on my shoulders once when I was 29 and then when I was 46 if I would've done pull-ups after the first surgeries I never would've re injured them. Pull-ups will get your back working the way it's supposed to.

As soon as I saw 20 reps on pullups in the title, I knew exactly what they were going to look like.

I learned something about what I've been doing wrong in the first like minute, I do pullups a while and then start having issues with lower bicep and upper forearm pain. I stop with the pullups and focus heavy on my weight lifting stuff and the pain eventually goes away. After watching this I can see what Im doing wrong and maybe get back into building my pullups without messing my damn arms up like that. Great video!

Number one fitness channel for me! So glad I found it.

No greeting, no "subscribe to my channel", just a man showing how to do thinks. Amazing.

Neutral grip is my favorite without a doubt, it hits those forearms well too

I just practiced the lat isolation you did here on my pull ups today and my lats are twitching so thank you

This Guy's videos have allowed me to see more gains in two years than the last 20 years combined

Apparently, I have been living in the 'old school' mindset - literally tried to do more pull-ups with following the arc of the lats and could immediately tell the muscle I'm hitting and the improvement in reps. Awesome.

Guy's a beast, and obviously a Natty. What he's talking about is sound. Thanks for the content Ryan! Keep it coming! This pull up video was gold!

You have some of the BEST content on KZfaq! You clearly describe, not just the movement, but the way the movement should feel while exercising. Nice work!! I will be watching:)

HE NEEDS MORE SUBSCRIBERS!!!! These exercises helped me last year for my competition!!!!

I don't know who your target audience is, but for me that was perfect. I know what you're talking about re the muscles and the directions of movement, but it was not stuff I'd ever considered. Perfect video. There as no filler fluff. Brief explanation as to why, then a quick demo. Perfect.

Legend has it he’s pulling still to this day.

Some great variations there! I love all the little tweaks I'm learning from your channel!

I do fifteen-twenty-ish pullups in a set. Add 30lbs and do six then finish off another six. This man just changed my whole pullup game.

By far my favorite workout content maker. Straight to the point with the right amount of dry humor that us veterans like

I started with pull ups on my total gym on the highest level. I started with 4 sets of 5 and eventually got up to 4 sets of 20. i did this to improve my upper body strength s I can be strong enough to at least do 2 pull ups on a vertical bar. Worked like a charm. I now can do sets of 20 on a vertical bar 10 months later

I'm one of those new year guys getting to the gym but I've been watching him for months now and love the way you break things down for me...keep up the good work man, you're a great motivation Cheers

Most efficient thorough zero to hero pull up method I’ve heard. No BS. (By the way I ordered your $20 program a few hours ago still looking for it. Can’t wait to dig into it.)

"Switching it up" is the key to any muscle building success story. I have always strived to have as much variation as possible to assist the muscle confusion theory. And it works like fishing with a grenade.

STRAIGHT TO THE POINT..NO BS...GREAT ADVICE ...GREAT CONTENT

I did one pull up in the gym the other day between a set and was so shocked I’ve never done a proper full pull up before

hell yeah brother! The length of the video is highly appreciated with direct and real information

ok, you are in my top 5 on youtube. excellent, quick, to the point...no 20 minutes of yappin...fantastic. and you are absolutely 100% correct about machine assisted pull ups. i find them useless the bands are exactly the best thing.

As usual quick and to the point Perfect

Nice vid! I just turned 70 in November,have found pull ups to be a major part of my training,soI do 10 sets of 5 . 3 neutral (close grip) and 2 chinups. A lot of great tips in this vid will be implemented tomorrow. In my next session!. Thanks!

Without a doubt, Ryan is among the top-5 trainers releasing content, today. Thank you so much for the consistent, QUALITY, instruction and information. I have implemented strategies from all of Ryan's videos into my daily workouts. Ryan's guidance has helped me to secure and improve on he mind-muscle connection throughout my body. The principles behind Ryan's guidance apply to every movement / exercise. Thank to Ryan's incredible content, I broke right though a 3 month plateau; and completely reignited my passion to be the hardest worker in the gym.. Thank You SO Much Ryan! A+++

Dude. I can’t stop watching your vids. Best fitness channel on the Tubes

That second variation looks like impingement hell

From my experience the best way to learn pull ups is starting with lat pull downs and working on weight u can rep for atleast 10 reps. Do that for 5 sets and be consistent like atleast 3 times a week and within 2 weeks you'll be confident enough to try regular pull ups. Lat pull downs help to build your lateral muscles without putting great strain on them. Good luck brothers 👍

Heck. Excellent advice from someone who obviously knows what he's talking about, straight to the point, no blah blah ... Subbed. Thanks!

I love that this channel's vids are under 5 min so much more efficient. gained a new sub

Who tf disliked a straight to the point 4min video of solid information?

A ton of information in just four minutes. That’s what I’m talking about!

Always great info. I've never been good at pullups which is really frustrating. I'm changing up to apply the suggestions from this vid! i'm 66, without dieting, but eating clean, I have lost 40 pounds in 8 months and gaining in the gym. Trying to get my surfing optimized. I hurt my inner knee by sitting at a desk as a dumbass with legs crossed for long periods. Your knee solutions worked, thank you. I have incorporated yoga for flexibility and 10 minute ab work outs on videos for added core work. Your vids provide great content and trusted guidance. Thank you!!

This is the best video regarding pull-ups ever. Worked for me. Well done!

This channel is the epitome of broscience.

I'm going to have to do a TON of pull-ups for my lats to catch-up to the rest of my back. Thanks for the video, it's going to be a great resource.

Great instruction on tweaking Lat Pullups. To really flair ones Latissimus dorsi muscles. I'm 56 yrs old been training for over 40 yrs. I do find Lat Pullups a great way to flair and put size on ones back. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

Best videos for those who are serious about gains. No nonsense, to the point with results. Premo!😎

LOVE this one man, great info when it comes to progressing pullups

Hi Ryan, will you ever make a video about muscle imbalances and how to fix them? For example - left arm smaller than right etc... Cheers!

I just discovered your channel and like everything about your style, instructions, and personality. Thank you for not being a douche like most fitness KZfaqrs.

if his name was Jeff he would have markers all over him 😂

Can u make videos about different ab exercise variations? Especially lower abs? I love your vids! ❤️

Where has this guy been my whole life, I rewatch these as I workout to listen to the detailed pointers that I forget to keep track of as I workout, thanks brother

Great info. That changes everything. 71 yr old , multiple shoulder operations. Thanks

I would love to see a core video from this man, feel like he would be very knowledgeable.

Totally goes against everything we're taught for pullups. I can't wait to try these tips out and feel the difference. I've had a really hard time trying to activate and feel my lats while doing pullups (even wide grip). Thank you!

Get after it ..Get Growin! .....The voice in my head when I walk in the gym everytime

Rock climbing gyms take you to the next level with this kind of stuff too. Great video sir!

I knew I needed bands! That machine acts weird when it’s in motion . Thanks for the tip

Best fitness channel ever!

Holy shit. I just did chinups using my lats for the first time! The push backwards tip is freaking life changing! Thanks so much,

Love the short videos. Your quick to explain in a way that makes sense. Some people just talk way to freaking long

Interesting. However, I'm not sure number 2 is safe for the shoulders.

Question - for the beginner recommendation, when Ryan says 3 sets of weighted negatives on split days, he basically means "4 sets of band pullups AND 3 sets of weighted negatives every other day" right? And what constitutes one set for the negatives - 1 rep = 1 set?

I found your video and this channel a year ago last month. COVID shutdown aside, I went from 0 to 10 pull-ups quickly using these methods.

I've watched dozens of pull-up improvement videos from the best on KZfaq, having millions of subscriber's. This guy just precisely broke it down to perfection. I'm ordering the band's and starting tomorrow. . brilliant interpretation. He also cracks me up every time. Let's support him to a million subscribers

I love how my abs hurt for days after pullups

2:08 looks like a shoulder injury waiting to happen

Instantly subscribed just based on the way he talks. No BS!

This guys no BS approach is gold.

Mr. Humiston, you’re variations are making me sore, more sore and sorest !!! Will you ever do a recovery vid? Tanks mate. 👍

How to do more pull ups...Not a single pull up was done that day...

Absolutely best fitness adviser out there on the social web.

Literally the best fitness content on KZfaq 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I started doing the close grip arcing motion and I got a damn cramp in my lat. it hurt so bad I thought I was gonna shit myself. 🤣