Yes You Can Get Ripped with Pull ups and Push ups

If you’re someone that goes to the gym every day, you’re going to know exactly what I’m talking about. How many people do you see doing push-ups in the gym? Well, usually none. Guys are always doing bench-press or using some sort of machine to build the chest. It’s almost the same with pull-ups, but not as extreme. You will occasionally see a few guys busting out some wide grip pull-ups, but again, it’s pretty rare. So what the heck has happened to these traditional exercises to develop the chest and back? People believe they aren’t as effective, but I’m here to say otherwise!

I have never been a fan of pull-ups, and quite frankly hated doing them in the gym. I would do a set of 4 or 5 wide grip pull-ups and then quit for the rest of the workout. It just wasn’t enjoyable for me! I relied on lat-pull downs to develop my back, but really that wasn’t enough to get good results. I would occasionally do some lawnmowers, but never followed proper form, so it was pretty much pointless as well. I never had the proper instruction either, which doesn’t help. Then I began the program, and I wanted to make sure I strictly followed it because I saw how it worked for others.

I was one of those guys who would maybe do 1 set of pull-ups every two months. So what did I do to develop my back? Well, I would do lawn mowers, but never really got anything out of them because I wasn’t trained properly on how to use correct form. I would also use the lat-pull-down machine, but that only got me so far. Really, I have never had definition in my back until I changed my approach to back development.

Proper form is just as important for push-ups as it is pull-ups. I never believed that traditional push-ups would build my chest to where I wanted it to be. I guess you can say that I was a skeptic! That was until I did complete workouts that focused just on push-ups! You want soreness? Try doing 45 minutes of nothing but different push-up exercises! I could barely make it through the second half of the workout. As hard as it is to swallow my pride, I admit that I could only do 2-3 push-ups during the second half. Yeah, it’s embarrassing, but oh well! Long story short, doing just these traditional push-ups built my chest more than ever before. I even have veins popping out of my chest now!

Half of the first workout, called Chest … Back, was nothing but pull-ups, but the other half was grueling push-ups. I never realized how tough push-ups could be until I had to do this workout. When I reached the half-way mark through the push-ups, I had nothing left. I was completely worn out! My arms were shaky, and I was only able to do a total of 2-3 push-ups for each exercise thereafter. I remember being so sore the next day that it hurt to move my arms! That was the worst soreness that I have ever experienced, and it was at that point that I knew I was going to reach my goal of a ripped chest. By the end of my 90 days, my chest was more developed than it ever was before!

If you have hit a plateau in your workouts and want to get beyond it, push-ups and pull-ups are the exercises that will take you to the next level. I was a skeptic at first until I tried going to a boot camp type workout, but now I preach by the program and the workouts. Traditional push-ups and pull-ups have made a comeback!

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