Sports Product Review

How are you holding up on those New Year’s resolutions? Specifically, how are you doing on that one about getting to the gym more often? I know, you didn’t think you’d be this busy this year and the only thing you have time to lift is that extra-heavy stack of work your boss put on your desk. What if there was a way to get a solid upper-body workout at home, simply, and in just minutes? No, this isn’t a segue into an infomercial hosted by Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley, its an endorsement for that workout you hated in gym class, but will love now, the chin-up.

Want fast? In the time it would take you to throw your shorts and shoes in your gym bag, you can be on and off the bar and feeling the effects on your entire upper-body. And while you can spend infomercial prices on a fancy model, you’ll be just as happy with the basic chin-up bar by Ironman, (www.ironmanfitness.com), pictured, for about $15. It installs with a few screws in any doorway and, according to world-renowned strength trainer Charles Poliquin, directly affects the sternal portion of the pectoralis major, latissimus dorsi, teres major, posterior deltoid, the rhomboids, the middle and lower portions of the trapezius, and the elbow flexors.

Now, chances are, if you know what all of those muscles are, you’re at the gym right now. But even so, Poliquin still endorses the chin-up. “I already can hear the people say, ‘I will just substitute pulldowns instead of chins’,” Poliquin writes. “Sure go ahead but you will not get the same results, and you will still have the lat spread of a cigarette.”

Lat spread of a cigarette? That hurts. And that’s probably what everyone is saying about you behind your skinny back at work. So throw off those excuses this morning and get up on the bar. You and your latissumus dorsi will be glad you did.

Source: Ironman