Chin-Up Training Routines
Did you know that you can do more than a normal ChinUp with your Chin Up Bar? This will mean you can get more use out of your Chin-Up bar, training a greater number of muscle groups and giving you a much better overall toned an muscular physique.
Chin-Up
Chin ups should be carried out by griping the ChinUp Bar with palms facing towards you (supinated grip). You should lift yourself up until your chin is raised above the bar, ideally until you can touch the bar with your chest. If you cannot complete this at the start you can complete negative chin ups where you use a chair to put yourself in the completed position and lower yourself down. You can do assisted chin ups, where a exercise band, step or training partner aids you with the final little push to the top. Finally you could try kip chin ups, where a swing of the legs can be used to help you in the motion. Once you can do chin ups you can start adding weight to make the exercise more difficult.
Targets: Latissimus dorsi
Pull Ups
Pull ups should be carried out in exactly the same way as chin ups but with the your hands facing away from you (pronated grip). By changing your grip, and the movements this restricts you to a lower emphasis is put on on using the bicep which will force the other muscle groups to be exercised more.
Muscles Used: Latissimus dorsi
Hanging Leg Raises
Leg raises are completed by hanging from the Pull Up bar and bringing up the legs up in a straight line to make an L shape or 90 degree angle.
Muscles: Abdominals
Incline Push Ups
We all know that a press up is a poor man s bench press , but when you are away a push up is better than chest workout.
With some of the newer generation over the door PullUp bars such as the Medicarn Chin Up Bar these can be lay on the ground and the frame utilised for conducting incline push ups, instead of just doing normal press ups. By performing the exercise on an incline a higher focus is placed on the upper muscles which will give a fuller and better look throughout the body instead of just focusing on the lower chest muscles.
Muscles Used: Chest Muscles
Decline Push Ups
In an identical way as you have just used the bar to perform incline push ups you can also put your feet on it to carry out decline push ups; which will target the lower pectoral area instead of the upper.
Targets: Chest
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This is one of the simplest exercise routine out there. It only requires basic equipment. The only dilemma is in execution of the workout. You have to do it right to gain results.