Tiger Shroff is no doubt one of the fittest and well-groomed actors in the Bollywood industry. The ‘Munna Michael’ actor is a fitness freak, who has an envious body and is known to never skip his workout.
The actor regularly keeps sharing his videos of his workout session on his Instagram handle. In a latest video posted on the social media, the actor is seen doing pull-ups at the gym, flaunting his amazing body. In the video he asked his fans to do pull-ups every day.
Shroff wrote, “Hope you guys are pulling yourselves up every day, 2020 almost through,” hinting that he never misses it.
What are the benefits of doing pull-ups every day?
According to fitness reports pull ups are included in every workout session as a back or bicep exercise. However, it is also a popular military drill exercise. The benefits of pull-ups are plentiful and lifting your whole body up every day can give you an amazing physique, take Tiger Shroff as an example.
Let’s look at some of the benefits of doing pull-ups every day or on a consistent basis.
Targets Multi Muscles At Once
As dead lifts, squat, the shoulder press and bench press, pull-ups are also a complex exercise that works many muscles at once.
Lifting the whole body from the floor and hanging on a bar brings all the upper body muscles, including the lats, traps, deltoids, pecs, biceps, forearms and triceps, into action. That means you don’t need to train each of these muscles separately. Therefore, pull-ups are a great workout to build your upper body muscle.
It Saves Your Time
It helps save your time, as pull-ups do the job of many exercises through one single movement. Along with that, this form of exercise can be performed with minimal gym equipment. In fact, you can do them anywhere and as long as you have a bar to hang unto and pull yourself up from the ground.
Pull-ups can be done regularly without spending the hard-earned on expensive gym memberships.
Easy On Joints And Tendons
Pull-ups are easy on joints and tendons and it is among those few exercises (that include chin ups, crunches and pushups) that you can do every day without hurting your joints and tendons. The joints and tendons are the only ones that are activated while performing pull-ups, but they can handle a lot of work, these joints are located in the elbow and shoulder region.
It Offers A Variety Of Paths To Improve
You can constantly build your strength and endurance if you can do pull-ups every day. There are also a variety of paths you can take to improve your performance.
To gradually widen the grip, you can start by doing close grip pull-ups which are easier to do. With the time, you can also add more weight to improve your performance. You can try holding a dumbbell between your legs or use a heavy backpack. Pull-ups also offer you the freedom to do them faster, slower, or to increase your reps. The more you do them, the more you can improve.
A Very Versatile Exercise
By being versatile, we mean you can use countless variations of pull-ups to target your muscles from different angles or to focus on the parts of your physique that you want to improve more. You can do so by changing the grip, the way you position your legs or the width between your hands on the bar.
For instance, if you want to focus on the outer lats and biceps more than the middle portion of the back, a close grip pull-up can do the job. A wider grip is preferable for building more back depth in the middle, as it engages the traps and the inner lats much better. Keeping your legs extended while pulling up will target more of your midsection and lower back.
Increases Grip Strength
Doing pull-ups every day is important for building a strong grip and forearm strength as well. And having a strong grip is crucial for performing and improving deadlifts, back rows and many other pulling exercises.