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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...

Why Do People Love Parkour? 5 Reasons to Try this Sport

Parkour means clearing an obstacle with minimal effort. Nowadays, freerunning has become a part of it and involves acrobatic movements to make it look fancy.  It is one of the reasons Parkour has become so popular over the years. Most people have seen this sport by watching movies like the Prince of Persia, Columbiana, Boss (Hindi), and District 13. The sport also became vastly popular because of international events hosted by Red Bull and other companies. Even today, people have a keen interest in the sport's movements and use them aggressively in videos. Some athletes also play the tag game on which the Google Play game Vector is also based. It involves reaching the end of an obstacle journey without getting tapped by someone following you in the background. The real reason behind the popularity of Parkour is also hidden behind the exercises or movements involved in covering during a beginner, intermediate, or advanced level course. Let's shed light on some of the reasons. 5...

5 Basic Parkour Vaults

5 Basic Parkour Vaults:   Primarily, there are 5 kinds of vaults that every Parkourist should be well aware of. Moreover, these should be practiced regularly to increase stamina, speed and body movement/flexibility. 5 Basic Parkour Vaults 5 Basic Parkour Vaults Kong/Monkey Vault/Cat Pass The Kong Vault tops the list of all Parkour vaults as it is the easiest and desirable vaults considered to the others. The simple method to do Kong Vault is to try to jump high and move in the forward direction with the help of your palms on the base of the obstacle. Dash The Dash Vault becomes easier once you learned the former Kash Vault. This is also very simple and just requires you to keep your foot forward and leaning a little on your palms to clear the obstacle. Side The side vault is more like a dramatic vault which involves keeping a single palm on the obstacle and clearing it with pace. This vault can be made more interesting by adding flips, incr...

How I Genuinely Lost 6 Kgs In 2 Months

Photo Credit: Dreamstime Yes, I agree that you must have read this on and off on the internet again and again. Moreover, you must have started feeling that people are just putting any kind of information not being effective at all. But, I am not here to disappoint you or pin point whether anyone is wrong or right on the internet. Here is a list of things, I did to loose 6 Kgs in 2 months. 1. Run Like Hell!!! Like There is no Tomorrow!!! This has been my moto for the past two months and I keep saying as well as doing it every second day. Yes, you read it right, I skip every alternate day, but when I train I do it hard. I have been running early morning or late nights in the park opposite to me. Moreover, initially I began with just 5 rounds a day, then moved to 10, then 15, and so on. It took me 30 minutes to 1 hour to cover the 10 round mark initially just because I had skipped running for a really long time. Now I can run 20 to 30 park rounds in the same time. 2. Dri...