Dipping bars

[Mark Bolam]

Thanks Mozza, looked a good 'un but no. is disconnected and I think they may have gone tits up!

[Mick Stockbridge]

I like the flexibility of being able to train whenever I want at home.

 

Do the heavy stuff in my mate's garage gym a couple of times a week, but it's a pain if I miss it 'cos I'm working late or out pricing

 

A contradiction in terms, me thinks.............Most gyms are open til nine p.m

[Mozza]

Thanks Mozza, looked a good 'un but no. is disconnected and I think they may have gone tits up!

 

Sorry mate, Only know the site as a mate of mine bought some stuff off it a good while ago now

[Mark Bolam]

Maybe you're right Mick.

 

They might have improved since the late eighties when I last went!

 

Might give it a go, but I still want to be able to do my dips at home!

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

Gyms are for harry Hoofters!

 

Buy portable gymnastic rings from ringtraining.com.

 

You can hang them from chinup bars. trees whatever you can sling them over.

 

exercises - chins, dips, pushups, ab exercises. and lots more.

 

Warning: side affects may be turning into a beast, body will feal light, and you climbing in tree work wll improve ten fold.

 

I have trained for years in stength and fitness...and i know guys that can do 50 dips/ that can't knock of 2 dips on the rings.

[Mark Bolam]

Too wobbly for my weighted dips and expensive for what they are. Wouldn't mind trying a pair though.

 

I'm going to have to spend £159 aren't I?

 

Damn.

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

nah. i do weighted dips on them also. actually they contributed to My M.r Max dips. worked up to 60kilo dips for reps with bodyweight of 80kilo.

 

Trust me if its strength you are after these are the way to go.

 

Welcome to Ring Training

[Mark Bolam]

Could I sling them off my doorway chinup bar then Martyn? And presumably they would be compatible with a dipping belt?

[Mark Bolam]

Just slung two long webbing lowering strops over my chin bar and tried doing dips off them.

 

Bloody hell it's hard isn't it?

[Tom D]

I don't work out full stop, however I tried a few dips the other day, I was surprised how few I could do, barely 10. I haven't noticed any lack of strength whilst climbing though and so I wonder; as you get more experienced, and therefore more efficient, as a climber do you need less strength?

 

JJG reckoned that the optimum weight for a climber was 12 stone, but what if as you get more and more efficient and need less strength and burn less calories you get fatter and fatter. By this theory the best climbers would be the fattest.

 

There's a few old timers bound to agree with this!