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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 Lose Weight Before Christmas?

How to Lose Weight Before Christmas? Christmas is almost around the corner. But that means a lot of sweets, food, and drinks. Ahem! I know, not for all. However, you can at least aim to lose your existing weight before it comes. Once you fall into that routine, things might change during the Christmas season. For example, you might not eat, drink, or consume excessive sugar during Christmas or the last few days. Today, we are going to cover a few ways to lose weight before the festive season. Also, these tips, tricks, and workouts can easily be adjusted to your routine. 5 Things That Can Help You Lose Weight Before Christmas Intermittent Fasting Intermittent fasting involves avoiding food and drinks during a set period and following a low-calorie deficit diet during your fasting window. The most popular is the 16:8 intermittent fasting plan, in which you fast for 16 hours and eat during the 8-hour window. How can you adjust in your existing routine? Two options seem feasible. The firs...

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 ...

3 Bodyweight Exercises That Will Burn Away Your Belly Fat!

3 Bodyweight Exercises That Will Burn Away Your Belly Fat! Have you ever felt a strong desire to reduce your body fat but struggled to achieve the desired results? Well, now you can up the game and burn your belly fat with bodyweight exercises. Bodyweight exercises, commonly called calisthenics, have always been part of the workouts. Some examples include push-ups, pull-ups, planks, mountain climbers, burpees, parallel bar dips, jumping, running, etc. However, today we are going to talk about the best bodyweight exercises that will burn your belly fat fast and turn it into dust. The 3 Most Effective Fat-Burning Bodyweight Exercises Running Running is one of the best bodyweight exercises, especially if you do it outdoors on a soft surface like park grass. However, one should always begin it after doing a warm-up. On average, running can burn 600 to 1000 calories per hour. But the question is, “Can you do one hour of running now?” If the answer is yes, then begin with it today and start ...

Why is Being Healthy Important?

Why is Being Healthy Important? Health deterioration is a common problem that comes with age. But a healthy lifestyle that accounts for social, mental, and physical well-being can provide numerous benefits. At the same time, it also ensures the delay or eliminates the chances of catching health-related issues, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, severe headaches, sickness, etc. The World Health Organization (WHO) cites a correlation of 60% between lifestyle and health-related factors and life quality. The report further states that an unhealthy lifestyle is the cause of illness, disability, or even death. Today, we will uncover the five crucial reasons for staying healthy. But before that, we would understand what being healthy means. What Does Being Healthy Mean? WHO defines health as “​a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” 5 Reasons for Being Healthy Enhances Your Confidence Staying healthy increases your ...

Intermittent Fasting: 10 Common Mistakes of Newbies (Part 1)

Intermittent Fasting: 10 Common Mistakes of Newbies (Part 1) A common weight loss approach taken by most obese people is to enter into an intermittent fasting diet plan. Unlike other diets and routines, it gives a window to consuming foods that suit a working professional's timetable and doesn't hamper their energy levels after the first week. Unfortunately, newbies tend to make a few common mistakes during this tight fasting schedule. On the other hand, others have learned about avoiding such mishappenings after going through a rough patch. Regardless of the scenario, anyone entering an intermittent fasting diet plan should avoid such errors at all costs, as they can prove detrimental to health. 3/10 Intermittent Fasting Mistakes (Part 1) 1. Subjecting Yourself to Extremely High or Low Calories Whenever someone enters an intermittent fasting (IF) diet plan, they also go into a calorie deficit plan, which can prove very harmful, as your body has its capacity. Subjecting to two...

Why is Losing Weight So Challenging? 4 Reasons to Know!

Losing weight is a decision that is not taken lightly by adults. However, it is a fitness goal that most people fail to achieve. Taking the hard road of calorie deficit only works until you have lost weight. Once you resume your calorie surplus diet regime, the lost weight suddenly starts showing and rapidly increases, making you look much like before you lost weight. So, while calorie deficit isn’t avoidable, it shouldn’t be substituted with a calorie surplus regime immediately after achieving your fitness goal. Achieving your weight loss goal is not limited to a single reason. You may forget that with a gym or bodyweight workout routine , you are also building muscle mass, which can cause your weight to remain stagnant or even increase. As a result, standing on the weighing machine doesn’t prove beneficial. You should measure weight loss by looking directly in the mirror and checking whether you have incorporated body transformation or fat. Doing so would encourage you to make wise f...