Getbig.com: American Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure

Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: falco on November 05, 2025, 02:51:28 AM

Title: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: falco on November 05, 2025, 02:51:28 AM


Worked well for him:

(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8e/8e/bc/8e8ebc6b831b904e527b37b7d09874f6.jpg)
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: IroNat on November 05, 2025, 04:14:26 AM
Just do bentover rows.

Same thing.
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: tatoo on November 05, 2025, 05:27:31 AM
Just do bentover rows.

Same thing.

bad form lat pulldowns
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: NaturalWonder83 on November 05, 2025, 05:35:46 AM
Sterum pullups.

But is that video AI? Seems everything is nowadays.
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: pamith on November 05, 2025, 05:59:08 AM
Bro...
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: SweetDaddySiki on November 05, 2025, 06:08:53 AM
I work with a guy who looks like Mr America from the waist up but has toothpicks for legs. When I saw that pic of Benfatto it reminded me of him.
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: Donny on November 05, 2025, 06:47:16 AM
this is how it should be done..in my opinion  ;)

Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: joswift on November 05, 2025, 07:12:56 AM
Just do bentover rows.

Same thing.

hahaha thats way harder than any bent over row

Give it a go
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: IroNat on November 05, 2025, 07:52:48 AM
hahaha thats way harder than any bent over row

Give it a go

Don't laugh at me!

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a4/c1/82/a4c182fa49c61fc8ec8834eacbba7236.gif)

 ;)

Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: falco on November 05, 2025, 08:49:34 AM
Sterum pullups.

But is that video AI? Seems everything is nowadays.

Strong point there.
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: joswift on November 05, 2025, 08:53:57 AM
this is how it should be done..in my opinion  ;)



I can do those at 60

I can do a half lever hold for around 3 seconds
(https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/24-Front_Lever_Pull-3.jpg)
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: snx on November 05, 2025, 12:32:59 PM
That video of Benfatto looks like AI.

That said, agree with everyone - the AI video demonstrates a modified Gironda sternum chin-up, but done with an overhand wide "pullup" type of grip.

My opinion: this is the most effective lat exercise we have (the sternum chin-up). Puts the lats at a full stretch with tons of tension to start, and because you change the angle of your torso through the ROM, the lats remain in full tension as take them through their fullest range of motion. No better exercise for the lats comes to mind, to be frank. And it's one of those interesting BW exercises that takes a muscle through it's full ROM, but doesn't really have a machine equivalent (you can't really do these on a lat pulldown machine, for example, without having to really work the lumbar area. And the pullover machine doesn't work as well, because the top of a pullover doesn't pull your humerus and scapula into full protraction to stretch the lats fully).

Just a great exercise.

Anyone who can do these is boss-level strong too. Hard to think "there's a guy who does a bunch of gironda sternum chins, but he's not very strong".

 I wish I could - I'm nowhere near strong enough relative to my BW. If I could, I'd do them non-stop just because I could.
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: joswift on November 05, 2025, 02:59:18 PM
Sterum pullups.

But is that video AI? Seems everything is nowadays.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C90oC5CIice/
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: snx on November 06, 2025, 03:48:17 AM
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C90oC5CIice/

So not AI then.

Jesus Harold Christ; Benfatto was friggin strong.
Title: Re: Francis Benfatto pull up style.
Post by: NaturalWonder83 on November 06, 2025, 04:35:54 AM
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C90oC5CIice/
HOLY CRAP. That's amazing form.