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Pull-Up: How to Do Your First One?

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...

How to Build Strength for L-Sit?

How to Build Strength for L-Sit? The L-sit is one of the most common calisthenics movements done on a parallel bar or the ground. While some people could do the L-sit on the first attempt, is that the correct way to proceed without knowing whether doing the movement could do any harm or not? Therefore, it is most advisable not to do an L-sit or any other calisthenic movement without properly building strength. It also comes with the secondary advantage of a longer holding duration. Simultaneously, it ensures that the calisthenics learner can progress towards advanced movements, such as the V-sit, planche, and straddle sit, among others. L-Sit: How to Build Strength for It? Practice with a Personal Trainer The best way to build strength for an L-sit is by hiring an online personal trainer. By doing so, you will be ensuring that posture is correct, learning new exercises to target the muscles that would get activated during the movement, and even learning the progressions. Moreover, an ...

How to Create Fitness Goals?

How to Create Fitness Goals? People often want to set fitness goals every year. However, only a few achieve it with concentrated efforts. Keeping achievable, measurable, relevant, specific, realistic, and timely goals can make reaching them almost impossible. However, taking a few specific steps can help to achieve more than the set goals. Unfortunately, the hard truth isn't available on most websites because they want to keep you motivated. But unlike them, I am not going to focus on them because you are already aware of such facts. To set fitness goals for this and upcoming years, focus on the following criteria: Go After Your Favorite Workout or Exercise Don't make a goal like losing 5 to 10 Kgs or achieving a specific physique. These factors require an experienced personal fitness trainer to help you throughout the day. The monthly costs of hiring such a coach can deprive your potential monthly income. However, an experienced fitness coach would help to achieve such goals w...

5 Ways to Reduce Weight After Christmas, and Other Holidays

5 Ways to Reduce Weight After Christmas, and Other Holidays Christmas and other holidays bring joy to families through gatherings, food, drinks, conversations, and events. However, many people gain significant weight by consuming high-calorie foods and beverages. Many prominent weight loss geeks suggest drinking green tea or coffee, exercising, water consumption, alcohol cutdown, stress reduction, etc., as a few main ways. However, as an experienced personal trainer and fitness coach for almost a decade, I have five more ways to offer. These five methods can help overcome the weight loss burden after Christmas, holidays, occasions, events, etc. These include intensive workouts, routine changes, cardio boosting, isometric practices, and lifestyle transformation. Methods of Losing Weight at Home Without Equipment The five methods of losing weight at home wouldn’t involve any equipment. It means there is no need for a chin-up bar, tension band, ab roller, etc. These don’t include tradit...

8 Differences Between Licensed Vs. Non-Licensed Fitness Instructors

Technically, "Fitness Training" involves many different aspects, such as you body weight, diet, agility, strength, weaknesses, etc. Therefore, it takes a lot of effort to develop a proper fitness workout for a client. Besides these important issues, fitness trainers are constantly questioned about their workouts, training, etc. and other workouts, diets, training, modules, meters, etc. available on the web. Both licensed and non-licensed trainers might be capable of answering these questions most of the times. Let's discuss the key differences between both of them. License Vs. Experience A licensed fitness trainer might know most of the popular food, diets, workouts, training modules, etc. On the other hand, non-certified trainers build all of these facts based on their personal experiences and feedbacks. Therefore, trainers that don't have certification get the point more than those who have such accolades. Vision for Physique Development The physical ...