The BEST back exercises doing pull ups for beginners (instructional)

According to the statistics I've been reading, the amount of people who suffer from daily or reoccurring back pain, lower back strains or posture related issues, is absolutely STAGGERING.

It isn't hard to imagine given the sedentary living so many people chose for themselves, but the injuries often occur when we are attempting to do something, or be active.  Whether we are in the work place or trying to enjoy life activities.

So while the medical industry and care giving specialists are kept busy in rehab and physio to try and get these people back up to speed, I want to focus on how we can AVOID getting there in the first place.

I call this a state of READINESS.  Being in the type of physical fitness condition that allows you to most likely avoid these really necessary and debilitating back injuries and discomfort.  Think of the millions of hours of wasted time and fun that is lost by people and back pain.  It's just sad.

Questions to ask yourself:

1. Do you do regular exercise?
2. Does that exercise involve stretching and strengthening your back?
3. Did you know that both stretching and strength training are equally important?

You may have heard how incredible pull up exercises are for your overall upper body development but especially addressing the points above.  

If you can't achieve 5 or more full body pullups, then you may need to learn by doing assisted pullups.   The best way to do that is with an adjustable bodyweight exercise bar as offered by this company SoloStrength.  They have exercise programs for beginners and very advanced bodyweight only resistance training and it's an awesome home gym or professional training studio gym equipment options.  

Let me know what you think of these options and look forward to my reviews in coming posts...

Have a great day and be "back strong"!

Adjustable Bars for Pull Up and Bodyweight Exercise Review

Today I am going to review the benefits of a multi-height adjustable pull up bar for doing chin ups and bodyweight based functional fitness exercise.  I wrote yesterday on Self Spotting Pull Up Equipment, and reviewed some of the commercial machines available for personal trainers studios and gym environments.

What may not be obvious on the first glance, is just how many exercises you can do with an adjustable bar.  In fact you can do virtually any core exercise with the ability to leverage your bodyweight on a bar set at different heights, to achieve very effective bodyweight exercise and total body fitness.   You can see bars used in action in any gym environment, either on smith press machines similar to the photo here, or setting squat rack support heights to lock in the bar at which height you desire.  This company SoloStrength, seems to have carved out a niche for themselves by building a very good looking structure to achieve a fast, safe and easy way to lock in a support bar at many different heights.  You can find more information on the multi-height adjustable bodyweight exercise bar machine and fitness equipment to see for yourself.

Rather than try and describe full body exercise programs using bodyweight exercise and adjustable bars here, I found a video that demonstrates a lot of the essential exercises we all need for balanced strength fitness, and I believe there are more videos on their exercise workout video channel as well.