Why you should alter your grip

A neutral grip chin up/pull up, a pronated chin up or pull up and a supinated chin up or chin up

In these photo’s, I’m giving just a three examples grip options; Pronated, supinated and neutral grip.

How the fist looks with each grip

There are many more though! We could have variations of these with narrow or wide grip, or again the variation the width of the bar Eg. Fat grip. 

Alternating your grip will not only allow a new stimulus for muscle and strength gain but also reduce chance of overuse injury. Your body isn’t made to complete exactly the same movement over and over again. In the curl, overuse of just one grip type often leads to elbow pain. 

This principle of course applies to all exercises, whether it be the squat with differing stance width (wise or narrow) and heel raise height from low to high, or say the bench press, with narrow grips, wide grips fat grips, or neutral or printed. 

the first image is pronated grip, neutral grip and then a supinated grip. Each vary slightly

The objects our bodies work with on an every day basis aren’t always an ergonomic set handle, they’re going to be in varying shapes and sizes, so it makes sense to train that way.