Why is Pull-ups Always Recommended? The Benefits of Consistent Pull-ups
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Why do I always advocate for everyone to do pull-ups?
Because pull-ups are the golden exercise for upper body, which can bring many benefits to our bodies. Street fitness enthusiasts can play various flower tricks and high difficulty with pull-ups, which can also improve our body's flexibility and balance ability.
Let's take a look at the benefits of pull-ups:
First, pull-ups can effectively exercise our arm muscles and back muscles. And this pull-up action is achieved through the arm to lift and lower our body, which can effectively stimulate our arm muscles.
Second, pull-ups can shape a beautiful upper body curve for us. If you want a triangle body, then pull-ups can help you. In the process of doing pull-ups, it has a good effect on our back muscles and core strength.
Third, for urbanites, this is the biggest blessing – pull-ups can effectively stretch our muscles. Stretching can make our muscles more flexible and improve the attachment of muscles, thus making our bones stronger and stronger.
Of course, pull-ups have many benefits, but this action is difficult for many people to complete. It's a challenging exercise for beginners, especially men and most women, to complete a standard pull-up. However, in fact, if we change to reverse grip pull-ups, you may find that you can do more than before.
Why does this happen?
When we do reverse grip pull-ups, we use our biceps more, which is our arm, to generate force. Similarly, if we want to do a standard pull-up, we need to strengthen our arm muscles, especially our forearm muscles.
Why do we need to strengthen our forearms?The forearm muscle called extensor carpi radialis, when we make our hand turn inward, it will play a role. When we do pull-ups during the lifting process, the wrist will bend our elbow, and maintain the inner rotation of the wrist, you will find that our extensor carpi radialis is very obvious.
So, if we want to do a better pull-up, we must strengthen ourextensor carpi radialisextensor carpi radialis training guide:
First, you can start with bicep curls, we will turn our palms down, then start doing reverse curls.
We can also do hammer curls, and then when we return down, let our wrists rotate to our body's inside, and then let our arms slowly go down, this can use centrifugal force to fully exercise our extensor carpi radialis.
Finally, we can also clench our fists and rotate our wrists to achieve the effect of exercising extensor carpi radialis. If you really want to strengthen your pull-ups, strengthening extensor carpi radialis is indispensable.
When your arm muscles extensor carpi radialis and strength are improved, pull-ups will become easier!
