If you’ve ever been looked up and down and questioned why you can’t do a pull-up, then you're not alone. You train hard. You eat well. You look the part - but you can’t do a single pull-up?

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. This is called the eccentric phase of a ...