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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...

Online Weight Loss Coach: How to Find the Right One?

Online Weight Loss Coach: How to Find the Right One? Losing weight is a difficult task, especially for people who have tried every method, like gym workouts, calisthenics, dieting, etc. However, a personal trainer for weight loss can surely keep track of your workout, diet, and transformation. Moreover, a weight loss trainer can also keep you motivated for training, ignoring feelings of avoiding workouts, and keeping track of the workout day or type. An individual pursuing a weight loss goal without help would have to manage such aspects by themselves. So, what does a virtual weight loss coach offer more than this? Let’s dive deep into the aspects of hiring a personal trainer. 5 Major Benefits of Hiring an Online Weight Loss Coach 1. Accountability The primary advantage of hiring an online weight loss coach is to keep you accountable towards your goal. But how does this happen? Primarily, it is a result of Offering a workout and diet program, Constantly asking about the meals of the d...

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...

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...

How Can I Lose Weight? - 4 Easy Methods to Achieve Weight Loss Goals

Losing weight seems impossible, especially when you have more than 30% body fat. However, the good news is that it is achievable and doesn't include tough exercises. If you are familiar with the GM diet, you would know that weight loss can occur by fasting. However, the problem is that you cannot fast for your entire life.  So, what is the solution? The answer is taking different approaches to achieve your goal. Once you reach your desired fitness level, you should decide on the next resolution. It would help you to stay motivated to work out, try out new exercises, and help you become fit with the approach that works best for your body without compromising too much. 4 Ways to Lose Weight Fast Intermittent Fasting Calorie Deficit Diet Exercising Changing Eating Habits Intermittent Fasting It involves consuming your daily calories within 8 hours and sticking to fasting in the remaining 16-hours. Many people may think that it is not easy to follow. However, it is one of the easiest m...

The Actual Weight Loss Guide For Women

The Actual Weight Loss Guide For Women The Actual Weight Loss Guide For Women: If you are a woman who is particularly struggling with all the meal plans, workouts & routines, and still not being able to reach your fitness goals, then probably you are doing something wrong. However, you can put an end to this problem by following only three basic steps. The Actual Weight Loss Guide For Women Step 1: Do Breathing Exercise Every Morning First and foremost, we need to clear the thoughts in your mind early in the morning. To do so, you only need to do basic breathing exercise as soon as you wake up. Just inhale air and then exhale it. Try to relax or calm your mind and specifically your thoughts. Focus only on your inhaling and exhaling. Leave all the rest aside.  Now that you are calm or relaxed, your mind won't focus on anything that you don't want to focus upon. Therefore, your entire day will go smooth like anything. After finishing the basic exercis...

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...