Pull-Up: How to Do Your First One? The pull-up is a great exercise for building back and arm muscles. It directly engages them whilst building strength and stamina. Moreover, the pull-up exercise is commonly performed by beginner and advanced-level athletes, especially in gymnastics, bodybuilding, and calisthenics. The pull-ups also help build hand strength and grip, which can prove beneficial for other exercises such as chin-ups, handwalks, handstands, human flags, etc., which are practiced mainly by calisthenics and gymnastics professionals. How to Do Your First Pull-Up? Dead Hangs The dead hang exercise requires you to hang from the pull-up bar with your feet hanging in the air without any support. You can either grab the pull-up bar by jumping from the ground, by jumping, or using a stepper, or by using other exercise equipment to reach the pull-up bar, hold it with your grip, and then, keeping your legs hanging in the air. Doing the dead hang exercise for one minute or more would...
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| Standing Up Abs Exercises | Day 22 | Part 1 |
Standing Up Abs Exercises | Day 22 | Part 1: Every workout deserves a change in process and procedure, until and unless the results are epic. Therefore, today we are going to fo a core workout completely standing above the ground. So, let's get started with it.
Standing Up Abs Exercises | Day 22 | Part 1
Exercise 1: Front Leg Lift Crunches [50 Reps]
In this exercise, you need to put your hands behind your head and lift one of your knees above the ground to touch your chest or upper body. At the same time, you need to crunch you upper body while keeping your hand behind your head in a forward motion. This will evidently compress the core muscles and even strengthen the muscles.
Exercise 2: Side To Side Arm Bends [50 Reps Each Side]
Keep your hands behind your head while you are standing straight above the ground. Now ben one of your hands towards the same side of the hand while keeping them behind your head. Do the same motion with the other hand.
Exercise 3: Cross Leg Crunches [50 Reps Each Side]
Like all the above exercises, you need to stand straight and keep your hands behind your head. Now touch the elbow of one hand with the opposite leg.
Exercise 4: Legs To Hand Touch [50 Reps Each Side]
This exercise doesn't require you to keep your hands behind your head. Instead, it requires you to keep your hands in front of you at the level of your hip. No touch the same side with the same side palm while your hands are straight. Do the same motion the other side too.
Exercise 5: Side Leg Lifts [50 Reps Each Side]
Stand straight and keep one of your hands straight too, while keeping the other hand close toward the hand which is straight. Now the lift leg of the hand which is sideways in the same side direction. Do the same thing with the other side too.
Exercise 6: Belly Twist [50 Reps Each Side]-Additional Exercise
This is an additional exercise apart from all the above exercise. This is particularly for affecting the love handles or obliques. Just raise your hands in front of your shoulder and keep them completely straight. Now move both of your hands in one direction, then come back to the centre and move them to the other side.
Your workout for the day is finished and I will be back tomorrow with a HIIT or high-intensity interval training home workout without any equipment. Also, the second part of standing up abs workout will be out on Tuesday at 5 p.m. (IST)