Pull ups and Chin Ups are one of the best upper body exercises you can do. Read this article right now to discover 5 reasons why you should be doing them and how they can help you build muscle, burn fat, increase your functional strength, get more muscle tone, and much, MUCH MORE!
Almost everyone has heard about pull ups, but lots of guys don't realize how important they are... what a great exercise they are, or all the benefits you can get from pull ups and chin ups.
So why would you do pull ups and chin ups? What are some of the benefits?
Here's 5 big benefits of these exercises:
1. Functional Strength - The strength you build with pull ups will carryover to every area of your life and is a type of strength you might have to use one day (hanging off a building, climbing a wall, etc)...
2. Builds muscle - The pull up is one of the best ways to pack muscle onto your back, shoulders and arms...
3. Sport strength - Almost all sports require you to do a lot of pulling to play well, pull ups help in this regard...
4. Exercise Carryover - You pressing numbers will go up as you get better at pull ups...
5. Joint and Muscle Health - Making sure you do as many pull ups as you do presses will ensure you don't have any muscle imbalances and you'll stay healthy...
The last point is important because a lot of guys do tons of bench presses, incline, decline and other pressing movements and do hardly any pulling movements.
This is bad for many reasons, the biggest of which is muscle imbalances... another big reason why you want to avoid this is because you should (generally) be able to pull much more than you push for functional strength reasons.
So if you haven't started doing pull ups and chin ups, then you need to start today...
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