Sports & Fitness Chin up bar

I installed a chin up bar in my house about 2 weeks ago. I have no idea why it took me so long to get around to doing!
So much joy. I could do 3.5 consecutive full chinups a few years back, (pretty good for a female), I need to better that.

 

I like chin ups!

Look up Grease The Groove method, good way of increasing your numbers

 

You could use a resistance band to do assisted chins, which will allow full reps with better form until you build some strength.
But don't stop there.
You can suspend some gym rings from the bar and do assisted ring dips with the band, also varying degrees of ring push ups and inverted rows.
That's pretty much a whole upper body workout.
You can also work abs/core with suspension training techniques too by putting your feet into the straps.

 

I thought you're talking about a bar where you can do chin up

Awesome strength .... meanwhile I can't even do full push up properly

 

Strength can most certainly be developed

 

More women should do strength/resistance training.
Got to get the myth out of their heads that they'll end up looking like bodybuilders.
It's not easy to gain large amounts of muscle mass if diet is in order, but you will get much stronger.
Or better yet, train purely for myofibrillar hypertrophy rather than sarcoplasmic hypertrophy which is a simple adjustment of reps, sets, intensity level and rest time between sets.

 

It amazes me how bloody hard a chin up is.

 

Agree, it takes a lot of effort to look like body builder. In general my arm strength is not great and really prefer swimming than lifting weight

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Pound for pound, Olympic weight lifters are much stronger than bulked up bodybuilders.
Especially the light weight categories who have very normal looking lean physiques.
Muscle mass does not equate proportionately to muscle strength.
Lifting heavy weight close to your 1 rep max for low reps and long recovery time between sets will build lots of strength, but not much extra muscle bulk.

 

Chin ups are the best!

I love them - they seem to hit almost every upper body muscle and you can make slight variations to target particular areas.

I must look like the biggest tool at the local playground busting out my routine chin ups I should probably grab one of those bars for the home.

Cheers

Jamie

 

Im a big fan of chinups ( I only do pullups) as well, athough been a bit slack of late. I was able to get to 18 reps but thats a couple of years ago now. We have a finger board in our apartment to practice pullups, hangs and grip strength.

 

I used to do it on my way home from work on the monkey bars at my local playground... Unfortunately the council removed them.

 

Agreed and really just a "buffer" to not do it cause it takes a lot of effort, initially.

Female and male bodybuilders take large amounts of steroids/other drugs to add muscle and loose fat as well.

Go wide to get your lats out and stick at it for 2 years as it will then become who you are and not something you have to do. Its highly addictive once you start to see results both physically, mentally and emotionally.

"Redbull doesnt give you wings, wide grip chin ups do!"

 

I gotta say... still loving it
Unfortunately I'm not quite at one pull up/chin up (with full weight feet off the ground from the beginning), but I will be very soon. Flat feet start on the ground is no problem though.

I'm also practising my hand grip and shoulder strength for monkey bars - I can do my whole body weight just with my right hand and arm now (Yay!), my shoulder was more the issue than the hand - I damaged my right shoulder a year ago causing all sorts of power issues with volleyball spiking and serving. The grip strength is not quite there yet with my left hand.

Once I get the hand strength, water skiing will be a goer!
And... Ohhh.... I think I can see some upper ab definition! (if I look hard enough!!)

 

Your post inspired me to purchase one I grabbed one of these from rebel sports multi-gympro :: Perfect Fitness

It’s quite cool - just sits in the door frame.

The kids love it too - they hang off it like little monkeys.

I done around 10 - 15 sets the day I bought it - was sore for a few days!

Cheers

Jamie

 

How's them pull up going ?
I don't do pull ups very often, but knocked this set out this afternoon.
Don't try this on your doorway chin up bars... unless you want to end up on the floor.

 

#solid

pinkboy

 

That's brilliant @Ace in the Hole. I know one day I was doing push-ups (or was it planking)? and doing fine. Then my niece decided to sit on my back to give me a challenge... It resulted in an instant collapse on my part!

I've only just gotten over my fall off my unicycle (skin damage at the shoulder - totally the worst painful spot for trying to bring an arm up to the ear) so I've only just restarted the pull-ups and chin-ups again. 3.5 consecutively was my best in history but I am sure I can get past that.
However, yes, I can do a full chin up, starting with no weight on the floor. Pretty decent since I've had to take that break.

 

I did my first aerial tissue class in about 2 months on Tuesday night. Omg, my arms and forearms are really feeling it. Usually, I can do a chin-up. Now, I have no chance to lift myself even a few centimetres.

I'm wondering though, I put together a mini penny farthing and started riding it this week. (Haven't put a brake onto it yet). I think maybe while riding it i'd been holding onto the handlebars really tightly, also contributing to the forearm pain.
I dunno.
I figure this pain comes under the category of "good pain".

 

Work on that grip strength @Gockie
If hear that grip strength is a very good indication of overall body strength.
If you start doing pull ups again your strength should come back quickly, but don’t push too fast too soon and let the adaptions come in time.
It always feels really good when strength increases fast week to week like newbie gains.

I did something new a few days ago when I took my daughter to indoor rock climbing.
Tried some muscle ups which I’ve never been able to do in the past.
I suppose strengthening the body as a complete unit does help with these things.