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Training with pull up bar

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

If you have difficulty doing even a single pull up with a pull up bar, this is definitely the article for you. Training with a pull up bar helps to build muscle which allows you to get used to your body weight. A pull up act requires muscle strength combination of your finger, forearm, biceps, triceps, shoulders, back and core. Therefore, doing pull ups daily is a great strength training exercise to easily build up your strength.

Apart from just building up strength, training with pull up bar also helps to define and build a stronger upper body. Well, majority of the girls like guys with stronger upper body? Isn’t it right? Also, with a stronger body, it can make improvement to your favourite sport. Example, A tennis player requires strong forearm power.

Training tips for doing pull ups

Most of us cannot even do a pull up with a pull up bar and the reason is simple. That is the lack of training. There is no short cut to it. The only way is to get into the act. Like Nike says, just do it. Below is an example of a workout plan to train your pull ups with a pull up bar.

1) Week 1: Start with 12 reps of one pull up. Rest time of 1 minute between each rep.

2) Week 2: You should be able to do 2 pull ups. Start with 6 reps of two pull up. Rest time of 1 minute between each rep.

3) Week 3. You should be able to do 3 pull ups. Start with 4 reps of three pull up. Rest time of 1 minute between each rep.

Keep continuing this routine. You can even decrease the rest time between each rep or add weights to your body if you can manage. Also, in doing pull ups, the most important factor is the form. It is best to do  pull up with a pull up bar in a standard, correct form.

Pull up exercise with a pull up bar

How to do a pull up correctly with a pull up bar

Fad Diets For Quick Weight Loss

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

When it comes to weight loss, everyone wants to see results immediately and to observe no changes can lead to you feeling disappointed. Disappointment can cause you to stop working out and eating healthy. It can drive you back to your old habits, which is not a good idea. For weight loss to take place you will have to be patient because most weight loss programs guarantee weight loss only after you stick to it for more than a week or more than two weeks. However, if you are the kind of person who wants quick weight loss then there still weight loss options that can give you the kind of weight loss you want.

Fad diets can help you attain quick weight loss. What are fad diets? These diets help you lose weight quickly, usually in a short span of time. Fad diets are popular among celebrities who need to lose weight for a movie role. Here are some fad diets that you can use for quick weight loss.

  • If you want to lose more 10 pounds per week, then you should try the Cabbage Soup Diet. This diet involves eating nothing but cabbage soup for 7 days. During those 7 days you are only allowed to eat a small portion of food and nothing more. This diet is hard to follow because having to consume cabbage soup day in and day out for seven days can get boring.
  • Another quick weight loss diet is the Grapefruit Diet. This diet involves consuming half a grapefruit every day before each meal. Grapefruit contains fat burning enzymes that help your body burn more fat. In addition to that, this diet limits the dieter to consume no more than 800 calories per day in order to achieve quick weight loss.
  • The metabolism diet is more or less the same with grapefruit diet. It helps the body burn more fat. However, in metabolism diet you do not stick to one kind of food only. Instead, you are required to eat different kinds of foods known to help speed up the body’s metabolic rate. This low calorie diet along with 4 glasses of water everyday can surely give you the quick weight loss results that you have always wanted.
  • The three-day diet is another diet for quick weight loss. Like metabolism diet and grapefruit diet, this type of diet plan helps your body burn more fat that it normally does. This diet requires you to eat a certain combination of foods known to help speed up the body’s metabolism for three straight days. If followed correctly you can lose around 4-6 pounds of weight everyday.

Quick weight loss diet plans give you immediate results. However, you have to understand that these are only short-term results. This is the reason why quick weight loss diets are undertaken when you need to lose weight immediately.