The National Academy of Sports Medicine suggests using a resistance band or an assisted machine if you’re just starting out ...

I became well acquainted with the assisted pull-up machine, which uses a counterweight to help you do a pull-up. The heavier the weight, the easier the pull-up. I also loved ...

For a machine-assisted pull-up, use the Gravitron machine which allows you to counteract your body-weight, thus reducing how much you have to lift during your pull-up.

Last week, Brigette Williams talked through the basics of building strength to do a pull-up. She says once you have mastered the TRX and assisted pull-up, you can move to a bar or pull-up machine ...

Assisted pull-ups with a machine like the Gravitron (above) that takes off as much weight as you like. The more weight you put on the stack, the easier these get (the opposite of how most machines ...

The exercise move, in which you use your lats, traps and shoulders to pull your body up to an overhead bar, serves a greater ...

Band-Assisted Pull-Ups: ... If you have a gym membership, the lat pull-down machine is a great way to build up the explosiveness that you want.

2. Build Your Muscular Endurance. Once you can hold yourself at the top of a pull-up—chin over bar—for at least 10 seconds, it’s time to focus on lowering yourself slowly and with control.

Achieving a pull-up is a significant fitness milestone for many people. First one, then maybe five, 10 or more: “The ability to do pull-ups is, in my book, an impressive sign of fitness and not ...