So today at the gym while doing my regular weighted pull ups some guy comes up and asks me if he can work in. Of course me being the nice person I am do agree to let him do so. Funny thing. He did these weird pull ups where his legs were bent to parallel with the floor.

I've heard of these and seen them online briefly, but mostly just blew them off because I had my dip belt and I was perfectly happy with regular old weighted pull ups. But this sort of sparked an interest in these things.

Unfortunately there seems to be like no information whatsoever on them. EXRX which is my normal go to for these kinds of things let me down and has nothing on the subject.

Does anyone know benefits of doing these. Obviously you'll be isometrically contracting your abs so you'll probably get a little more ab work, but other than that is there any other benefit. I plan on doing a trial set of them next time I'm at the gym and just wanted to hear people's opinions on this exercise.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ptero