"The Crow" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:At the following link there's an image of a chin/dip machine thingy.
http://www.argos-sports.co.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/Argos/AS1991?refid=froogle
This is not something I'm thinking of buying, before you get too outraged
and start screaming 'POWER RACK' across the net. However, I thought the
shape of this pull up bar was interesting, and wondered what you thought
of its style, good idea or useless innovation?
They say they've come up with this shape to give head clearance, but
wouldn't it impede your ability to do close grip work in the middle of the
bar, since there isn't a middle?
Also, on a slightly different tack, dip handles. Angled or straight,
what's the difference, and do angled really improve muscle recruitment, or
do they just put more strain on your wrists?
There many shapes to pullup bars. And just like other specialized bars, they
have their plusses and minuses. So if this bar can't so something, another
bar can. Don't look to a single piece of equipment to do everything.
The whole angled versus straight dip bar thing deals with the actual width
of the bars. The general thinking is that the wider you go, the more you
work the pectorals. The narrower the handles, the more you work the triceps.
Of course your form and dip style will have to be changed for the different
emphisas.
When I built my dip bars, I just used four pipes and spaced them a
comfortable distance apart. This gives me a narrow, moderate and wide grip
for doing dips. The problem with fitting angled dip bars in a home gym is
that they are just too long and take up too much space. Which is why I went
to the four pipe design.
