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Did you know that you can carry out more than a normal ChinUp with your Chin Up Bar? This will mean you can get better use out of your Chin Up bar, working out a greater number of muscle areas and giving you a far better overall toned an muscular appearence.

ChinUp

Chin ups should be conducted by holding the Chin Up Bar with palms facing towards you (this is called a supinated grip). You should pull yourself up to the point your chin is raised above the bar, ideally until you can touch the bar with your upper chest. If you can’t complete this at first 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 pilates band, chair or training partnet assists you with the last tiny push to the top.  Finally you could try kip chin ups; where a swing of the leg can be used to aid you in the motion. Once you can do chin ups you can start adding additional weight to make the exercise more difficult.

Targets: Latissimus dorsi

Pull Ups

Pull ups should be completed in an identical way as chin ups but with the hands facing away from you (pronated grip). By changing your hand position, and the movements this restricts you to less stress is put upon on using the biceps which will encourage the other muscle groups to be worked more.

Targets: Latissimus dorsi

Hanging Leg Raises

Leg raises are carried out by dangling from the Chin Up bar and raising the legs up in a straight line to make an L shape or right angle.

Muscles: Abdominals

Incline Press Ups

We all know that a press up is an easier alternative to bench press, but when you don’t have access to get to a gym a press up is better than not completing your chest routine.

With some of the next generation no fitting required Chin-Up bars such as the Medicarn Chin Up Bar these can be placed on the ground and the frame utilised for performing incline push ups, instead of just doing standard press ups. By performing the exercise on an incline greater focus is placed on the upper pec muscles which will give a fuller and better look throughout the body instead of just focusing on the lower pectoral muscles.

Muscles: Pecs

Decline Push Ups

In exactly the same way as you have just used the bar to carry out incline push ups you can also put your feet on it to conduct decline press ups; which will target the lower chest area instead of the upper.

Muscles Used: Chest