How to Do More Pull Ups? - By doing more push ups!

Do More Pull Ups ! - By doing more Push ups!

Yes, this may sound strange but it is true. In this post, I will talk about what kind of exercises which you can do to improve in your pull ups.

The first exercise is actually push ups. Many people are not able to do pull ups because they lack the arm power. In order to increase your arm power, the first basic exercise you should start with is push ups. Again, like pull ups, there are many different kind of push ups that trains different muscle groups. I am going to list a few:

-Normal Push Ups: This push up is done with your hands placed shoulder width apart. Lower yourself down until your face is close to the floor, and your elbows are at least 90 degrees. Then push yourself up. This is counted as a normal push up.

-Wide Arm Push Ups: This push up is done with your hands placed wide apart, wider than your shoulder width. Lower yourself down until your face is close to the floor, and your elbows are at least 90 degrees. Then push yourself up. This is counted as a wide arm push up. Wide arm push ups trains more of your chest muscle as it works the chest more. You should be able to feel the strain on your chest after doing wide arm push ups.

-Diamond Push Ups: This push up is done with your palms placed close to each other, and forming a diamond shape with your index fingers and thumbs. Lower yourself down like a normal push up, and you will feel the strain on your triceps. Diamond push ups are very good in training your triceps.

The 3 push ups stated above are very good push ups that helps to build up your arm power. Therefore, do them in sets of 10 reps if you are a starter, and then gradually increase them as you improve gradually.

In time to come, your armpower will increase and then doing pull ups will be much easier for you!

Train hard and put in effort, your hardwork will certainly pay off.

Pull Ups - What is your max?

Pull Ups - How many can you do at one shot?

This is important when training to do more pull ups. How many pull ups can you do at one go? Let's say you can do a maximum of 5 pull ups. Well, maintain at the standard.

3 years ago, the maximum number of pull ups I could do was 9. The trick to doing more pull ups is to do 2 sets of your maximum everyday. So if your maximum number of pull ups is 5, do at 2 sets of minimum 5 pull ups. In just a week, you WILL be able to inrease your maximum number of pull ups by at least 1. TESTED n PROVEN. To make it better, do it 3 times a day, each time doing 2 sets of your maximum pull ups. :)

In the next entry I will be posting up other kinds of exercises you could do to improve your arm power and to be able to do more pull ups.

Pull Ups - Introduction

There are actually many ways of doing pull ups, and different kind of pull ups train different group of muscles.

Basically, there are 2 different grips when doing a pull up -

One is the over hand grip, where your palm is facing away from you. The other is the under hand grip, where your palm faces you. Doing an over hand grip pull up trains more on your forearm whereas doing the under hand grip pull ups focuses on your biceps. You can feel the difference when you do it.

From my point of view, I prefer doing over hand grip pull ups because they train the strength of my grip more efficiently than the under hand grip because over hand grip requires more strength. You will come to realise that doing an over hand grip pull up is actually harder than doing an under hand grip pull up. That is because of the way you grip the bar, the over hand grip requires more strength.

There are different types of pull ups that train different groups of muscle, so I am going to list the types of pull ups that I know and the muscle group that it will affect.

1) Normal Over Hand Grip Pull Ups - What I mean by normal is that the width of your 2 arms are just shoulder width apart. This will train up your strength of your forearm and will train up your lats (the wings of your back).

2) Wide Over Hand Grip Pull Ups - Place both of your arms wide apart. This kind of pull up will also train up your forearm muscle and strength, but it will not be training up your 'wing' muscles, which is the lats. Instead, the back muscle that it will train up is the inner back mucle, which is the group of muscle that is directly below your neck.

3) Under Hand Grip Pull Ups - This kind of pull ups focuses more on your biceps and it works the lats more than over hand grip pull ups.

4) Close Grip Over Hand Grip Pull Ups - This pull up is done with both of your fists close to each other. Both thumbs are supposed to meet. This pull up trains a lot on your grip strength and your fore arm muscles.

The above are the normal pull ups. When you are bored doing these regular pull ups, you can do the following -

1) Clapping Pull Ups - This pull up is called clapping pull ups because it done when you pull yourself up real hard and clap both of your hand before gripping the bar back again. It is not easy. The first time that I attempted it, I fell to the ground.

2) Dick-up Pull Ups - Sorry for the dirty word. Lol. They call it the dick up pull up because this pull up is done this way: Pull up very hard and turn your arms, facing both the elbows up to the sky and push yourself up. And there, with your body level crossing the bar by so much, there comes the name of it.

3) One Hand Pull Ups - To me, this is the hardest kind of pull up. As the name suggests, hang your body with only one arm holding the bar, and pull yourself all the way up!

Well, I have introduced the kind of pull ups that I know, and in the next entry, I will guide you on how to do more pull ups. Even if you cannot do a single pull up, dont worry! I am here to help you do more pull ups!

Do More Pull Ups ! - How?

Do More Pull Ups!

Welcome! Are you wondering how to improve your pull ups? Do you want to increase your arm power and at the same time do more pull ups? I believe I can help you right there!

I could only do a maximum of 3 pull ups when I was at the age of 14. Now, at the age of 19, my maximum repititions of pull ups is 32! I am not lying and it took me some training to be able to do so.

I will love you share with you how to improve your arm power and improve the number of pull ups you can do. I want to teach you on how to stretch your physical limits - nothing is impossible.

Stay On as I ASSURE you and guide you on how to improve your arm power, and do more pull ups!