I really think you are splitting hairs. Honestly I do. Get as full a ROM as possible and then if you can focus on squeezing at the top; great. But I would just focus on getting as many quality reps out as possible. Someone (I want to say Chad Waterbury) did a thing where they did pull ups every day for a period. Boom - found the piece. This is a great example of how to use this exercise to progress. My advice - don’t worry about hand placements and squeezes. Just get to a point where you can knock out 20-25 pull ups from the bottom. At that sort of level of bad ass hollowed out / arched back - no one cares. You just did 25 pull ups and have 16 - 17 inch biceps.
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