Lean back and pull your chest to the bar.
The lean-back and big back arch are the move. Touch with your sternum, not your chin.
Leaning back and arching to touch your sternum to the bar turns a vertical pull into something closer to a pull-up and a row in one rep, dragging the lats and the mid-back muscles through a far longer arc than a standard pull-up. The biceps assist throughout, but the exaggerated finish position is what makes this a back movement first. It is a step up for lifters who already own strict pull-ups and want more upper-back work from the same bar.
The torso lean. Instead of pulling your chin over the bar, you lean back through the rep and finish with your lower chest touching the bar, almost horizontal. That extra arc pulls the mid-back and lats through way more range.
Because it is genuinely hard. Most people lack either the pulling strength or the upper-back arch at first. Pull as high as you can while leaning back, and treat the sternum touch as the standard you are working towards.
Lifters who can already do clean sets of strict pull-ups and want a harder back stimulus without adding load. If regular pull-ups are still a grind, build those first.
