GeneD
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There are two main variations of exercise where a person pulls himself up using a pull-up bar: using an underhand grasp and an overhand one. The dictionaries seem to call them both either chin-up or pull-up making no difference between the two variations. In the book I'm reading now there seems to be no difference too; both called pull-ups. But in another book the author made a clear distinction between them: the one with underhand grasp is called a chin-up, while the other is a pull-up (like in the picture here: https://res-5.cloudinary.com/rubber...a/wysiwyg/blog_images/pullupchinup-image1.jpg)
To me, it looks as if there are simply two ways of naming those exercises. There are those who use one name (either pull-up or chin-up) for both exercises, and there are those who think that pull-ups and chin-ups are different exercises. What do you think of this? What do you call them?
To me, it looks as if there are simply two ways of naming those exercises. There are those who use one name (either pull-up or chin-up) for both exercises, and there are those who think that pull-ups and chin-ups are different exercises. What do you think of this? What do you call them?