Arvanitakis - How to Carve a Gymnasts Ripped Back with Pull ups (Bodyweight Bodybuilding Tips Book 2)

Pull-ups are the king of all upper body exercises. Most gym rats would envy the sculpted backs of top-level gymnasts and canoe kayakers. Being a canoe kayaker in my early twenties, I know from personal experience that 95% of all top athletes in this sport do a massive amount of pull-ups every week. Elite organizations such as army special forces, SWAT teams, the marines and more, all require a minimum amount of pull-ups as a prerequisite for anyone to be allowed in their training programs. That's no coincidence... There is no better exercise to determine one's relative and functional upper-body strength.

"Pull-ups are the best bodyweight exercise to determine one's relative and functional strength"

Unfortunately, a big percentage of the general population is unable to perform a proper pull-up (probably not even if it were to save our own lives). After all, if you're a human being, your shoulders, arms and whole body is designed to brachiate. It's just how our anatomy has been forged through hundreds of thousands of years in order to survive and thrive. Originally, most of our back muscles were involved in making our remote ancestors walk on all fours - pulling on the ground with their forelegs (arms) in order to propel themselves forward. Once we transitioned to an upright walking style, these muscles became specialized in vertical movement, such as tree climbing . Unfortunately, we've reached a day and age were these muscles simply atrophy, as we spend a large amount of our days in a seated position. This book is also a call of action to get you off that chair and evolve by devolving again.

How's it hanging?

Just by hanging on a pull up bar, you're already doing something good for your body. One health benefit, for example, is that hanging stretches the arch of the ligament and bone covering the rotator cuff and sub acromial bursa (CA arch). Hanging, if done strategically, can remodel and reshape the shoulder bones and ligaments.

In simple words: this can help restore lost shoulder flexibility, and increase the " roomy-ness" in your shoulder (which can be decreased in issues such as shoulder impingement).

Doctor John M. Kirsch, in his amazing book " Shoulder Pain? The Solution & Prevention " talks about all these benefits when it comes to hanging for shoulder health. After 28 years of research he demonstrates how this simple exercise can help relieve shoulder issues like sub acromial impingement syndrome, rotator cuff injury or frozen shoulder. In some situations, he shows how it can prevent shoulder surgery! If you do have any of these issues with your shoulders, I highly recommend you read Doctor John M. Kirsch's book for information on how to properly implement hanging in your daily routine.

Do what is right, not what is easy...

Why is it then that if you visit a regular local gym, you'll see people lining up to use the lat pull down machine while maybe just one lone ranger will be toiling away on the pull up bar. Well, it's simple.. people always prefer the easy way out. You can cheat your way through a lot of weight with machines such as the lat pull down, using momentum, your lower back etc. but the pull-ups leave very little space for cheating. This doesn't mean that learning how to perform the exercise perfectly isn't important. On the contrary, it's those details in form and mind to muscle connection that will make all the difference if you want to strive for excellence and great results. Once you learn how to do pull-ups the right way, and as a result of that you start reaping the results that follow, you'll never look back again.