Grip distance on chin ups

[skijumpbump]

I just put a chin up bar in my house. It is the kind that goes between the frames of a door. My question is how wide does your grip need to be to work your lats during chins. Since the door frame isn’t very wide the widest I can get my grip is a little more then shoulder width apart. Is a grip only slightly wider then shoulder width apart sufficient to work my lats during chin ups?

[r w]

Sure it is. Concentrate on getting a good negative stretch, and come up behind your neck.

[Killa_Z]

just go as wide as you can, after all you cant do better than that right

vary grips, wide/narrow or palms facing you/palms facing away

[Insex]

For Pull-ups/Chin-ups I'm a firm believer in the wider the better.

I tore my rotator cuff back in high school though, so I can't use as wide of a grip on pull-ups as I would like to. So I just go as wide as I can for now, which is not very wide at all. But I do know that with a wider grip, you'll give your lats more of a stretch, and hence, give them a better workout. A narrow grip works the lats well too, but gets the forearms involved a lot. A narrow reverse grip will workout the biceps more.

Follow Killa_Z's advice: vary your hand positions and grips. Don't get used to just one type of position/grip.

[orientalkid]

U can try varying btw palms away or plam facing u, to target ur lats from different angle.