Iron Gym Pull Up Bar – Variations
The Iron Gym Pull Up Bar is a very versatile piece of equipment and you can use it at the beginning to improve your upper body physique using the basic exercises as outlined on the site here.
As your strength and stamina improve you will find it much easier to do more repetitions and at this stage it is a good idea to use alternative exercises to not only improve but also to break the tedium of constantly repeating the same exercise.
I’ll repeat again, as it always seems to cause some confusion, about the way that the hands grip the bar itself.
Gripping the Iron Gym Pull Up Bar
In the standard position, where the hands grip the bar “overhand grip”, the lat muscles will be worked predominantly whereas in the “underhand grip” the biceps are more targeted. So as long as you understand the different effects you can alter your grip according to the area that you want to work.
One of the first variations that you can consider is actually increasing your weight so you are having to work harder – this can be achieved by a weight belt, to which you can attach additional weights to suit your regime or alternatively, and probably the easiest, is to wear a back pack and put bricks or rocks inside, gradually increasing the weight as you become more proficient.
Circular Pull Ups
Circular pull ups are demanding way of using the Iron Gym Pull Up Bar and achieved by, instead of pulling yourself up vertically, you move your body in a circular motion whilst never quite straightening the arms – this has the effect of moving the weight from each arm in turn as you describe the circle and is very effective for the lats and traps – be warned – it’s tiring and very demanding at the beginning.
There are various exercise that you can do whilst suspended at the halfway point then, while your arms are bent, move yourself outwards and inwards from the bar – you’ll find it easier to do too if you extend your legs forward at the same time – you’ll probably find it difficult to start with but after you’ve managed a few good repetitions – it will become easier – try to make it graceful at the same time!
As you get more advanced there are many options available to you which will allow you to target more specific areas, generally speaking in most pull up type exercises the abs don’t receive a great deal of benefit but you can use the Iron Gym Pull Up Bar to do very effective exercises for the abs.
One of the best, and the simplest, is to hang from the bar whilst lifting your feet up ensuring that you keep your legs horizontal whilst doing so – if you find this difficult to do initially you can cheat a little and instead just raise the knees up to the chest.
I hope that you´re finding the benefits of the Iron Gym Pull Up Bar and beginning to realise that there are an enormous amount of exercises that you can do with a very simple and inexpensive piece of gym equipment – keep watching and I´ll let you in on some more exercises that you can do with the Iron Gym Pull Up Bar to extend your routines.!
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