How To - Hanging Pull-ups

The monkey foot also allows for versatility in increasing the difficulty of your pull ups. You want to make sure that when you're setting up for this, you can reach the pull up bar and the floor. If you're set up too high and you drop from the pull up bar, you risk spraying an ankle or breaking your monkey foot.

A few ways to set up for this. Put it on one foot. You can cross the feet over each other. Helps to make things stable from side to side, do your pull up. You can also put them side by side so that things are offset and you feel oblong if you'd like to, or if you don't have the height available, you can bend your knees.

So the pull up bar can be lower if need be also going to get a little bit of a hamstring workout.