Well, because they're hard AF! “You start from a hanging position on a horizontal overhead bar," explains Rivera. "Then, you have to literally pull your body up to meet the bar." Like other hard ...

O'Leary has similar clients try a horizontal pull-up at home with a pull-up bar in a doorway (from lying on ground) or with a similar setup at the gym (lying on a bench with a fixed horizontal bar ...

Whereas rows are performed with either free weights – like a pair of dumbbells – a barbell, or using a cable machine, and is a horizontal pulling movement. “Pull ups primarily target the ...