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FAT BARS

arondaballer Posts: 1,054 Joined: 2003/06/14	2006/02/10, 11:10 PM I was just listening to a DeFranco radio interview on T-nation, and he was talkin about the importance of grip strength and how 9 outta 10 times, he has his athletes use a fat bar or fat pulldown/pullup/row bars because there are great results without even doing grip work separately. Anyways, I can't afford to just go buy a fat bar so I'm going to attempt to make a ghetto one. I'm thinking just wrap somethin around the bar a bunch or somethin. Any ideas?? -------------- I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious. --Vince Lombardi "Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." H. L. Hunt
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/02/11, 04:08 AM Bring a 2.5lb plate to a junkyard, and cut yourself a 7' piece of 2" pipe. Buy olympic collars to put 1' in on each side, and now you have a thick bar. Lots of other grip ideas in the "Grip Strength" thread. -------------- Iron and chalk. Pain is only temporary, it is in your mind. If you can still walk, then you can still run.
	2006/02/11, 04:26 AM Or you can just take athletic tape and wrap over the places where you hold the bar...and bam fat bar...
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/02/11, 12:25 PM Or take a standard (1 1/16"?) and slide a pvc cuff over it, then put collars on. -------------- Iron and chalk. Pain is only temporary, it is in your mind. If you can still walk, then you can still run.