Weighted pull-ups add a belt with a plate or a dumbbell: the next step once you can do more than 10–12 with bodyweight.
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Setup
Put on a dip belt and hang a plate, or hold a dumbbell between your feet. Grip slightly wider than your shoulders, hang, drop your shoulders. Pull until your chin clears the bar and lower to straight arms.
Execution
Attach weight to a belt and hang from a bar with a grip wider than shoulders.
Exhale and pull up until your chin clears the bar.
Inhale and lower to a full hang under control.
Common mistakes
Adding weight too early — get 10–12 clean bodyweight reps first.
Short range with weight — use a smaller plate and go all the way down and up.
The weight swinging — start each rep from a dead hang.
Jumping 5 kg at a time — step up by 1–2.5 kg if you have small plates.
