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@dawn16 For practical reasons, I usually workout after dinner. Which I really don't like, but most of the time is that way or no way. I try to avoid "heavy food" but ended up removing handstand practice!

@peachpits Sure! There was an article on cycling I didn't include: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30672619 It shows that eating during is beneficial regardless of wether you ate before or not.

@cbsmel I agree with you. For people starting, it's hard to know the "personal preference" and having some guidelines may help. And I find interesting the metabolic differences, but they are hard to study and hard to transpose to real life.

@betaninja This is a personal preference that can actually be helpful for a lot of people!

@dawn16 Nice testimony! Thanks. What do you prefer to eat? Or doesn't even matter?

TL;DR Performance should be similar between fed and fasted state, except for high-duration aerobic exercise (where eating low GI carbohydrate is advantageous). There appears to be more muscle adaptation and free-fatty acid utilization when exercizing fasted. Should we exercise fasted? Should...

@dawn16 The authors say the problem with chin-ups is in deadhang and the beginning of ascending phase. So, on rings it should be safer, but this was not tested

@kingaries4ever This post from antranik helped me a lot to reach my first pull-up! I personally did rows, then negatives.

@claireevans It's possible that towel pull-ups require more of your forearms. Regarding wide pull-ups, in the image it looks like twice shoulder width.

@philip1979 Weighted pull-ups were not tested here. There's certainly some crossover for strenght gains from one exercise to the other. As this study was performed on competitive swimmers, who need a lot of pulling strenght, I think that's way the researchers conclude the athletes should do both.

@crazyredchristian My mistake, thanks for pointing it out.

@ameyer6 There's some stuff. This one shows that with feet elevated 60cm your supporting 74% of body mass (normal push-ups about 64%). It should be less stressful for your wrists if you do them on your fists.

@therayhillfamily Suspended using TRX.

@humblejalopy I edited one in. Sorry for not doing in the first place.

@neuestestament Oh, sorry! Didn't meant to sound condescending... You'll do it pretty quickly then!

@dawn16 I edited one tldr. Sorry for not doing in the first place.

@neuestestament If you really are a beginner, be careful about negatives. They are very rough on your muscles, and you will have, at least, serious DOMS tomorrow. Try one. If you fall down with little control, you are not ready for them. Keep progressing through rows, getting more horizontal...

@neuestestament Rows 2, Pull-up negatives When I reached 3 sets of 7 negatives of about 8-10 seconds I was able to do my first chin-up!

@dawn16 I guess so! Don't forget vertical pushing (like dips) and pulling exercises

@depeche_mode In the conclusion of the paper, the authors focus almost only on testing. For example: It's known that there's a relation between velocity and maximal load. So, you can assess both your progression towards a heavier pull-up and towards more reps, only by measuring the velocity of...