Tips on How to Do Pull-Ups

One of the easiest way to demonstrate your upper body strength is to jump up, wrap your hands around a horizontal pole, and hoist the bulk of your weight up, pulling your chin up and over the height of the bar, then lowering yourself back down and repeating this action, as many times as you can, using only the strength of your arms.
This is the simply pull-up, but it is never as simple as it sounds.
A pull-up is a difficult exercise to do, and many people cannot manage but a single appearance of their chin above the bar.
Of course, the easiest way to teach your body to do this exercise is to simply try, try again.
But this can be frustrating, as progress can be slow, and regularly dropping down from the bar after one or no pull-ups can be a little embarrassing.
If you would rather work your way up to the pull-up over time, there are a few other exercises you can do to build the muscles required in a pull-up.
The easiest of the bunch, and one that requires no equipment, is the push-up.
While this too can be a tough exercise, you can start off from a knees-on-the-floor position to begin with, lowering the amount of weight and shortening the pivot point for your arms to push up over.
Once this becomes easy for you, you can move up to normal push-ups.
The other option is to use the assisted pull-up machine in your local gym, which uses counter-weights to effectively reduce your bulk, and make your muscles work a little less hard to lift you up.
Again, once you master this machine, and you begin to use less and less weight as a counter, you will be ready to attempt the real thing.
Keep at it, and before you know it, you'll be chinning over the bar multiple times - a feat that even some of the fittest people you know will envy.