How To Enhance The Effectiveness Of Pull Ups By 73%
Sep 4th, 2011 | By Todd Bowman | Category: Arms / Biceps, Exercises
Do you want to know what the perfect pull up is? That’s easy! It’s simply doing pull ups and at the same time doing a knee up. Why you may ask? It’s because it doesn’t only work your arms and back, it also works your abdominals.
Doing this exercise is absolutely one of the best exercises you can do. It strengthens and tones your stomach all while sculpting your inner latissimus dorsi muscles, biceps.
Even though it really digs deep into the muscle fibers of your upper body, it also helps to circulate the blood, increase stamina and heart rate but builds discipline and intense will.
This will break your mental and emotional spirit if you choose to dance with this exercise for any period of time. It’s intense and powerful in breaking you down. It breaks you down emotionally and physically.
Pull ups are one way of measuring ones fitness level. Most physical education classes have this as a test. I’m sure there are a lot of adults now who can remember being humiliated in gradeschool for not being able to perform a single pullup. Doing pull ups is also one of the most beneficial overall muscle and strength developers. When you’re in the military, being able to do many pull ups is a must.
If you don’t have this upper body strength simply do as many as you can and build from there. You can always have somebody hold your ankles while your legs are bent to start out with.
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Doing pull ups is akin to the activities of monkeys and apes. We cannot blame ourselves for wanting their upperbody strength. They don’t lift weights or use weight equipment but you’ll be surprised to know that a 60lb chimp can lift three times the same weight as that of an athletic male. It helps develop intense grip strength as well as raw forearm strength too.
Pullups and chinups are one of the benchmarks of an advanced athlete. They build up your grip strength basically because you use your fingers, hands and forearms. They also develop your biceps, triceps and shoulders giving you the strength and muscularity. Doing pull ups puts a lot of stress on your back, making them grow bigger and stronger, most specifically your lats and traps.
If you’re looking to excel as an elite athlete, then doing pull ups is a must. Trust me, that guy you’re trying to beat out to make the team, isn’t doing these. Also your competitor on the other team doesn’t have the will, determination and discipline to do these either.
This is a way to outwork and outperform your competition!
By doing a knee raise in addition to the pull up, your abdominal muscles are given a very good workout as well as you stabilize your body during the exercise. This will help increase core strength, agility, timing, dexterity, flexibility along with reaction time.
We cannot even begin to express how important it is to have a good set of abs. It’s not just about the looks, believe me. It goes way beyond that. If you don’t have a good set of abs, here are reasons why should consider getting them a priority.
- Lesser fat on your waist line will drastically reduce the odds of suffering diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart diseases and hypertension in your lower and upper back. A fat pot belly is a precursor to dying young.
- a tight core will automatically straighten up your back helping you avoid back pain. It also gives you a taller posture. Trust me when you’re old, you don’t want to have a hunch back and be bent over all day.
Watch the video below as Craig Ballantyne shows you how to do this and we’ll tell you the reasons why it is the perfect pull up.
To do this perfect pull up, grab the pull up bar with a wide grip. As you go up the bar, raise your knees up to touch your chest. Slowly lower it down and you will feel your abs working full time.
You want your grip to be slightly wider than shoulder width position. You can do a chin up version of this as well to work a different set of muscles but I prefer this more difficult wide grip pull up.
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