Why Pull Up Exercises are important and equipment that helps you

I recently reviewed some strategies for assisted pull ups to help you achieve your pull up goals, but for some of you, the question may remain, "why do I need to do pullups in the first place?"

Well the answer is most likely individual to each of us, but the most common reason people desire to achieve the pullup, is as a personal challenge and to feel strong!  It's an elusive thing to those that can't do them, but for those of us that already can, we already know the undeniable sense of empowerment and feeling of strength that comes along with 10 or more strong full body pullups...but is there more to it?

The Pull up is arguably, the single best upper body exercise that one can perform.  The full body pullup engages more than 100 muscles to complete, and to do them in good clean and controlled form, takes engagement of the entire body.  When you are strong enough to do full body pullups, you can add modified movements to further challenge and use muscle confusion techniques, to continue stimulating the muscles and maximize your bodies fitness benefits from the simple, bodyweight exercise.  Many companies have alternative bodyweight training equipment with adjustable bands and straps such as TRX, and they can be great for leveraging your bodyweight to exercise, but they still lack the ability to do the most beneficial of bodyweight exercises, the pull up or chin ups.  A fixed bar is the most common way to do the chinup, but with the new fitness equipment machines that allow for adjustable pull up bars, even beginners can start easily with spotting themselves, and progressively increase the resistance by increasing the bar height, to eventually achieve the full body pull ups that you are seeking.     I found a pretty cool review on this blog - they seem to really keep the fun in the fitness training, focusing on essential core bodyweight exercises and offering free workout exercise videos to train people.  It seems that while many people want to focus on why we don't need any equipment to exercise, this company delivers high quality functional training equipment that delivers the ability to accomplish the full body exercises in a more complete, safer, faster way.   Certainly a good option if you are a busy family or rushed lifestyle but still want to get total body workouts in the shortest time.

As a bonus, this company seems to be able to integrate the TRX training tools onto their adjustable bar system, so you can use the speedfit gym of your choice as a foundational piece and then modify your programs to include some TRX training as well.  Looks like a winner match to me, that I have a hard time not recommending.  Checkout www.solostrength.com when you get a chance.