The Ultimate Upper Body Exercise For An Alpha Male Body

You’re trying to feel better. You’re trying to look better. Pull ups is an exercise that doesn’t just help you look better, but it helps you to feel better, It revs up the metabolism, builds strength and increases male testosterone. Here are 5 reasons why you should be doing them.

I’m all about exercise and nutrition for building the ultimate male physique.  The pull up is one of those exercises that will do so many things at once.

Here’s five reasons why it think it’s amazing and why you should be doing them.

By:  Tim Ernst – Founder of Body Blitz Max, 180 Muscle and Barbell/Dumbbell Ripped Muscle Complexes

Number 1 – Wider and Bigger Lats (Back)

The number one reason is the amount of muscles that it recruits, specifically in the back. Your back is a big body part. A lot of us overlook that.

In the back, you’ve got the lats, which take up a lot of blood volume. Then you’ve got your rhomboids which are at the center of your back.

The pull up incorporates a lot of the top of the movement and then of course you’re incorporating your trapezius muscles too, which are pretty large and wrap underneath your rhomboid muscles.

You’re encompassing your entire back. This means you’re getting a ton of blood flow, which means that you’re going to elicit a lot more of a metabolic response after the workout.

Number 2 – Opens Up The Chest

Now the number two reason is it opens up the chest.

It opens up that anterior portion of the chest, that chest-delt tie-in and that front delt.

Now how many times have you seen people walking around with their shoulders slumped forward?

You see the thing is, a lot of us end up doing our exercises like bench presses, dumbbell presses, and things like that, where we’re constantly tightening up that chest cavity.

We’re really just making it so that it’s constantly constricted and contracted. Well, we don’t want that.

When you do a pull up, you notice that not only are you incorporating your back, but if you go all the way and you really pull all the way where you should, you’re going to expand the chest.

Doing this you’re going to actually dynamically stretch out the chest so that you feel a lot better and you end up not being hunched over as much.

In time, this is going to help your posture, and this is going to make it so that you eventually can do a lot more in the way of other exercises.

Number 3 – Core Involvement

Now the number three reason is core involvement.

It may not seem like it, but when you’re doing a pull up you’re tightening your core a lot.

You’re not just using the rectus abdominis, which is those stereotypical six pack abs that you always see but you’re tightening something called the transverse abdominis.

You’ve got a whole set of muscles underneath that six pack, and those transverse abdominis are responsible for stabilizing the core and for holding the gut in.

When you’re doing pull ups, you’re really activating that a lot.

Where is this going to help you?

It’s going to help you when you’re sitting at your desk, when you’re standing around or when you’re just walking.

Number 4 – Elongates The Spine

Now the number four reason that I love the pull up exercise is because it elongates your spine and stretches the muscles.

So many of us sit at desks, and we’re constantly compacting our spines.

We’re constantly feeling like we’re compressed, we’re slouched and the pull up simply stretches you out.

There’s no need to go out there and buy an inversion table where you have to lay on you back and flip yourself upside down to stretch out your spine.

Just simply doing some pull ups can incorporate the right kind of movement that’s going to elongate your lower back and make it feel like you’re stretched out making it feel like you’re new again.

Number 5  – Performed Anywhere

Now the last reason that I think pull ups are perfect, is because you can do them almost anywhere.

You can do them whether you’re at the gym, you can do them hanging from a bridge, you can do them at the park. It doesn’t matter.

If you don’t have a gym membership that’s o.k. to. Head out to the park and start working on those pull ups.

It’s so versatile, and if you have to use a little bit of assistance, all you have to do is have another person help you lift up the knees a little bit.

It’s really something that you can incorporate anywhere, with minimal equipment, so no excuses.

If you can’t do one, start with an inverted bench row, where you simply hang underneath a bar and row yourself like so.

What’s Next?

Yale hospital surgeon John Elefteriades recently went on record saying lifting heavy weights can KILL you…It’s been shown to cause tears in your aorta…

Leading to high blood pressure, heart failure, aneurysms, and sudden death.  I wish I was lying… but it’s true.

And needs to be taken seriously…

Especially as you get older and your heart becomes weaker naturally with age…

I recommend lifting weights like this instead.

Listen. Unless you’re a competitive power-lifter… or trying to be the next “World’s Strongest Man”… you don’t have to lift heavy weights for a powerful physique.

Sure, it’s one way of doing it… yet it’s very high risk and dangerous.

Which is why if you want to build muscle… and get JACKED safely and quickly WITHOUT lifting heavy weights… you’ll want to check this out.