Similar to the behind the neck chin up, wide grip chin up to the front also targets the upper back muscles and helps build width into the lats. This helps you get the tapered "V" look. Instead of pulling up to the back of your neck, you pull up to the front of your upper chest.
Wide Grip Chin Up Execution
Grab the chin up bar with a grip wider than shoulder width apart and let yourself hang from the chinup bar
Pull yourself up as high as you can, trying to touch your upper chest to the chin up bar
Hold for a brief moment at the top
Lower yourself down back to the starting position
Close Grip Chin Up
Close grip chin up is performed in a much similar way as the wide grip chin up exercise. The only major difference here is that you use a close grip, with your hands only a few inches apart. Close grip chinups also works the lats, and also develops the serratus.
Close grip chin ups can be performed using a single bar using an underhand grip, or using a double bar with the palms of your hands facing each other.
Behind the Neck Chin Up Exercise
The wide grip chin up targets the upper back muscles, which helps to develop the sweep in the lats. Wide grip chin ups helps to develop width in the back muscles.
Behind the Neck Chinup Execution
Grab the chin up bar with a grip wider than shoulder width apart and let yourself hang from the chinup bar
Pull yourself up so that the back of your neck touches up to the bar
It is important to maintain a controlled motion and not let yourself kick up using your legs
