The Benefits of Pull-ups

Pull-ups are as important to your upper body as squats are to your lower body. Here are a few different variations to pull-ups:

1. The most common is the overhand wide grip pull-up. This type will target your lats the most.

2. Close grip pull-ups will target your lats, shoulders, forearms and biceps.

3. Reverse grip pull-up (also known as chin ups) will focus more on just your biceps.

4. GET OUT OR YOUR COMFORT ZONE! Assisted pull-ups are a great place to start!

Any variation of a pull-up is the perfect exercise for strengthening your grip. Even if it is just a little bit of progress each week, before you know it, you will be able to do a real pull-up without a band. Iif you are not using a band you may feel tempted to hold a weight/kettlebell in your feet to challenge yourself!

Here is a Quick Guide on how to use a Pull-up Band for an Assisted Pull-up

 

Meet our November Member of the Month

Meet Cheryl Carreiro who is a Core Club member. Cheryl joined the gym in September 2017 with her goal in mind, to lose weight and feel better! 

Let's here what Cheryl has to say:

"I'm 37 years old and I have two kids; Jack who is 3 and Sofia who is 1. I work full time and after having my second child I realized I had a lot of weight to lose so I started eating better and exercising. To date I have lost 70 pounds.!! I love being able to get to the gym any time I want and love the atmosphere at Core!!!!"

TRX and Youth

TRX is a great sport training approach for youth fitness and an overall functional tool for youth. It is important to understand that when training young athletes, the goal is not to lose weight or gain strength, but more so to focus on working toward enhancing their skills while they are young. With TRX, your strength, speed, flexibility and cardiorespiratory will naturally increase overtime.

Maddie, one of our 8 year old members is showing us her TRX 'Pike' during her first TRX session! Way to go!

 

Your child can try out TRX for FREE today! Call us at 860-349-9100 or stop by the front desk. 

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