Post: #26

$700 for a pull-up bar?

Shit, I bought mine for $14 several years ago and it has served all my needs perfectly. It's the most valuable piece of equipment that I've ever used, but there's no way in hell I'd pay more than 50$ for it, and even then it better be made out of pure titanium.

It's a hollow piece of metal, for gods' sake!

Post: #27

What are these called on sears website?

Post: #28

3 ton jack stands:

http://www.sears.com/craftsman-3-ton-hig...950159000P

13 7/16 to 21". That's enough on the high side to get under a lower weighted squat bar. Gym squat racks are fine for high weight, but functional strength comes from muscling the bar onto the stands and getting under it. Squat, drop, reload, repeat.

The stands work good too if you need to fix your car.

Post: #29

That's a bit on the short side you would probably have to prop them up on something like bricks to get to say 48". I like the height so I can walk the weights in. If they are 3 tons capacity they should handle 400 lbs with no problem.

Post: #30

You don't need weights for a pullup bar - just creativity.

There are so many different pullup variations you can do to increase difficulty - I do many and I never see anyone else doing them.

My current favorite: palms facing you, put one hand on the bar, and the other hand on top of the first. Makes it almost entirely a bicep exercise. Then switch hands. I invented this and have never seen it elsewhere.

Mix up grip widths, hand angles, number of fingers used, timing, partial vs full reps, using a towel to grip, etc. I personally feel like I progress faster from doing newer harder variations than strapping on weight. You get more comfortable in your own body that way and learn new movements. I also don't have weights to use.

And you should get a home pullup bar and leave it always in the doorway if possible, and do a set in the morning and a set in the evening in between other activities, takes a minute and has a great impact.

Post: #31

(11-01-2013 12:44 AM)Mage Wrote:  

(10-31-2013 06:37 PM)Enigma Wrote:  If you want something cheaper or more portable, just buy the one's you hang in your doorway for $10-50 or pick up a piece of pipe from the hardware store and find somewhere to mount it.

In-doorway pullup bars are cheap but they have a serious drawback - you can only do pullups in them. You need an outdoor pullup-bar with lots of space to do muscle ups and many other advanced exercises that can be done on pull-up bar once you can easily do 20+ basic pull-ups. Sadly even many gyms have low ceilings and you cannot do much more then standard pullups on their bars.

Most people don't have high enough ceilings to do a muscle up indoors period.

An outdoor bar is definitely going to be the most versatile but I can still pull myself over the bar with the doorway model, I just can't lock out my elbows to hold it. There are also plenty of other things you can do besides standard pullups.

Post: #32

(11-01-2013 03:04 PM)NY Digital Wrote:  This looks like spam.

There's no "spam" here -- many serious lifters recommend IronMind products because of their quality of construction. I suggest the equipment I think is best, but if a man can do hard pullups on a tree outside his door, more power to him. That's the point of the post.

Post: #33

(11-01-2013 04:02 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  $700 for a pull-up bar?

Actually, HCE, it's pretty much a 35 lb portable home gym that works as a great rack for heavy squats and dipping station for heavy strapped dips as well as heavy strapped pullups:

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ALight is a revolutionary design:

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ALight Training Center includes:

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Specifications for ALight include:

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chinning bar adjusts from 48" to 85" high; 1-1/2" diameter

1 base + 3 tops = squat--dip--chin

No. 1480 ALight base and squat, dip and chin attachments $699.95

Post: #34

(11-01-2013 12:50 AM)JayMillz Wrote:  I like a str8 bar much more than the apparatus I tend to see in most fitness/health clubs these days.

Yeah, that thing is a piece of sh*t.

Why would you want to be in some crap airconditioned room in Zanesville, when you can do some at the beach go for a swim after and go talk with some topless girls?

Lifestyle.





^^^^ Primed for The Greatest Opener of All Time

Post: #35

Okay, I might be younger but I can bet on that this exercise is THE BEST exercise for getting stronger. Not only for lats or biceps, I've been doing only pull ups and sprints since I was 9 y.o. I'm almost 18 now and can do 35 reps of pull ups in one set. It's been the same since 4 years but my weight has increased so that means I'm still getting stronger. I think I can give advice on this topic.

1. You dont need any fancy pull up bar, anything will do.
2. Make sure you use a THICK bar for pull ups. Believe me when I say you can out strenghthen the handshake of a 19 inches bicep guy.
3. When it's your last rep, Just hang on the top for atleast 30 seconds.
4. When you can do 20 pull ups in a set, put some weight in a bag and tie it with your legs, It will give you boosting results.
5. It's addictive but don't overdo it.

You will see results in days man. It's the best.

You will have Excellent definition but size won't be all that. It WILL be impressive for sure but only when you take off your shirt. Won't matter much during pick up.
Thats all. Good luck.

Post: #36

I added 3 inches on my biceps doing pull ups. I got to the point where I did 3 sets of 12 like it was nothing.

I love this thread.

Post: #37

(11-01-2013 10:26 PM)TexasMade Wrote:  I added 3 inches on my biceps doing pull ups. I got to the point where I did 3 sets of 12 like it was nothing.

I love this thread.

How built were you before? How old are you and how long did it take? Was this only because of pull ups or were you doing any other program along with it too?

Post: #38

(11-01-2013 12:26 PM)Giovonny Wrote:  I bought one of these for 25 bucks:

I've had one of these for awhile. I bought it at Walmart for about $20 and it has lasted a long time.

I love doing pull-ups. They can be hard and sometimes I think about skipping them but then I do them anyways. Afterwards I am glad that I did them and I feel great.

Post: #39

LOL @ "squat for the upper body". Did boredom result in a silly thread ? Pull-ups are a great excersice for the muscles involved, other upper body muscles like the chest, the shoulders and the triceps have to be targeted with other excercises.

Post: #40

(11-01-2013 10:19 PM)Raj Wrote:  Okay, I might be younger but I can bet on that this exercise is THE BEST exercise for getting stronger. Not only for lats or biceps, I've been doing only pull ups and sprints since I was 9 y.o. I'm almost 18 now and can do 35 reps of pull ups in one set.

Not that I'm calling you a liar, but 35 correct form, no kipping, no bullshit pullups is a serious deal. I'm in great fuckin shape and 23 is my max. Pullups and pushups are the height and dick size of the bodybuilding world: everyone exaggerates them.

Post: #41

(11-01-2013 10:19 PM)Raj Wrote:  I'm almost 18 now and can do 35 reps of pull ups in one set.

I don't believe you.

However, I am willing to give you a rep point and publicly apologise if you can post a video of yourself smashing out 35 pull ups in one set.

Post: #42

(11-02-2013 03:43 AM)MunichSux Wrote:  LOL @ "squat for the upper body". Did boredom result in a silly thread ?

No. The analogy is actually very good. Pullups, if done correctly -- and granted, they often aren't -- do more for proportional upper body development than any other exercise. The same is true of squats with respect to the lower body.

If you had to take just two exercises to a desert island, so to speak, those would be the ones to take, and if you did them both hard, you'd be in very good shape.

Given that you're not on a desert island, obviously there other things worth doing for various parts of your body. But that takes nothing away from the point of the post. If you focus on training pullups and do them hard and right, that is probably the single best thing you can do for upper body development. And getting a home pullup bar or any other arrangement that allows you to do them regularly at your convenience is a good way to make sure that happens.

Post: #43

Iron Mind makes great products (I have many), but that's a lot of money wasted. Pullup bars in door frames can be disadvantageous for several reasons, but you can drop under $30 now for something decent that isn't going to thrash your door frame and hit the gym for the extra pull that a door frame can't offer.

I'll spend the $670 on a plane ticket.

Post: #44

Damn, for $700 you can go all out building one with 2x4s, angle irons, 1" or more iron pipe and heavy duty bolts. If you ever want to toss it you can easily disassemble and use the pieces for something else.

Post: #45

I don't have a pullup bar at home but I do them on some scaffolding around the corner from my house usu. after a run.

Once I started doing that whenever I come across some scaffolding, I might just do some pullups. Kind of draws attn but I don't mind anymore.

Post: #46

(11-02-2013 08:12 PM)Lights Wrote:  I don't have a pullup bar at home but I do them on some scaffolding around the corner from my house usu. after a run.

In Montreal you can always use their iconic staircases for a pull up session.

Post: #47

I'm surprised not more people here use gymnastics rings. You can pick up good a set with straps for ~100USD. (rogue fitness or fringe sport)

You can do every upper body exercise you can possibly need on either the rings or with just your bodyweight on the ground.
Dips, pushups, pullups, kipping muscleups, back lever, L-sit are the basics on rings. Once you have those mastered move on to the more difficult movements like strict muscle up, front lever, kip-up, L-sit to handstand, handstand pushup on your rings, etc. They aren't going to make you huge like a bodybuilder but you'll be much, much stronger and more flexible than bodybuilder, thus having fewer injuries. Plus, a local park is a much better place to pick up than a gym.

If you're new to rings you're going to have to start by just learning to do a basic support with the rings turned out so the straps aren't against your upper arms. There are plenty of free websites out there with progressions for basic ring exercises. If you're really weak to start with get one of those oversized rubber bands to loop around the rings for assistance with dips and pullups.

They're also very portable, you can keep them hung on a local tree and when you go travelling throw them in your suitcase and hang them on a tree where ever you're at and do your routine just like you do at home. My current setup is a set of rings hanging on a tree across the road from my apartment, a big green army duffle filled with ziploc bags of sand (130lbs.), some kettlebells from 16 to 32 kilos for kettlebell work and also weighting my dips and pullups. That's about 300$ worth of equipment and I am not even close to running out of things to do or getting bored. I only go to the gym for olympic lifting 1x a week. The next thing on my list is a 175 lb. atlas stone.

Post: #48

Quote:I don't believe you.

However, I am willing to give you a rep point and publicly apologise if you can post a video of yourself smashing out 35 pull ups in one set.

I feel you but I've decided since a very long time that I should not feel the need to prove the things here on the forum. Especially for a rep point. Pull ups and sprints are my things.

Quote:Not that I'm calling you a liar, but 35 correct form, no kipping, no bullshit pullups is a serious deal. I'm in great fuckin shape and 23 is my max. Pullups and pushups are the height and dick size of the bodybuilding world: everyone exaggerates them.

Exactly, It pisses me off.
But, You see, when someone starts off with a blast for maximum repititions, It looks like kipping even if the form is correct. This is kipping http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU9CfKnNLAo
I have had guys who can't do 10 telling me that I kip. Nice thread though.

Post: #49

In all of Central Park there is one stinkin pull up bar. I have been toying with the idea of starting a petition to get them to install more around the park, its literally three blocks from me. I bet I could get a few thousand signatures, at least that many from the crossfit nuts. We should have pullup bars in every park in America. More and more people are doing them and realizing the benefits.

Iron Mind is good, but this would be my option if all I wanted was to install a decent bar in a home; http://www.studbarpullup.com/

Someone mentioned a power cage, and if I had the room to build a home gym thats all I would use. For now I just do them in the gym 4-5 days a week as a part of my routine. I also use the one in the park a lot too, I have a 50lb weight vest I wear sometimes, but I like to do high rep sets.

Someone mentioned IronMind looks like spam, its one of the more revered and well established strength supply companies out there. I have spent some dough there. Their sandbags are one of their best products, stow them away in your luggage when you go to the beach.

Post: #50

I have a $30 doorway pullup bar at home, like one of the pics posted up earlier. It's on the door to my office. Everytime I need to go in there, I have to do a few pullups as entrance fee. It's from a Pavel Tsatsouline's Grease The Groove training principle, and the way I set it up makes it effortless to integrate regular pullups into my life. This got me to 15 strict pullups, and one with 40kg attached. I haven't maxed for a while, but been doing a few easy sets of 10 reps daily either at home or gym or in the park.