In this week's Workout Wednesday, Cindy Ross of Bodies by Cindy takes us through one exercise most of us hate--pullups. The Pull Up is an awesome exercise- You can feel it engaging every muscle in your body! As women our upper body strength isn't as strong as men, which leaves most of us to do an assisted pull up. You still receive the benefits and you as you get stronger you will be able to eliminate the band. Pullups are one of the most convenient exercises around. You can do this exercise pretty much anywhere. All you need is a bar and your body. You can buy inexpensive home pull up bars for your door frames; you can go to the playground at the park, use the parallel bars or monkey bars. Some gyms even have a weight assisted pull up machine. One of the best benefits of pullups is that there are many different variations of the pullup. The best thing is that one version doesn't require any additional equipment than another variation. All you have to do is switch your hand placement around. My favorite variation is the regular old wide, overhand pullup. This is the best variation for getting your lats to grow. Some other good variations are close grip pullups , and reverse grip pullups (also known as chinups). This is a great exercise for men and women, but as women we want our backs nice and tight and this also helps with elimination of that extra skin over our bra that all women hate.

• published: 10 Jun 2013
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