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Mobile Home Dipping Bars
One negative aspect of home training: equipment limitations. The fact is, there are a few exercises that are hard to do. We makeshift all the time, but at my great pal Mindy Mylrea’s FitFest a couple weeks ago, I came across a simple tool that provides a lot of options for bodyweight exercises: a pair of mobile but stable dipping bars called the Lebert Equalizer.
Here’s a quick video of Mark Lebert, the designer, running through a variety of exercise possibilities; here’s the same guy doing some playful and extremely difficult over and unders.
Another trip over to YouTube will get you running woman (what looks to be an pretty intense gut effort), leg up vertical rows, and an example of circuit training using the Lebert bars.
You’ll find a listing of some of the exercises you can do with the Equalizers here, and this pdf combines the exercise suggestions and photos into a simple, printable format.
At *$99 ($117 including freight) for a pair of bars that you can do a whole slew of exercises with, that price is not too bad. Some of you can make a set of your own certainly, but when you get done, will they work that well and be significantly cheaper? I’m not so sure about that part.
*Update* Marc has offered davedraper.com readers a $10 discount; when ordering from their site, enter the coupon code 0807LD.
Laree Draper
on November 10th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
The mobile dip bars seem versatile and relatively inexpensive. I’d like to see an adjustable model so you could do regular dips with weight…these seem a bit low for this. I took the opportunity to watch a few clips of guys in their home gyms…embarassing!
Mike O=O
on November 21st, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Could I make a set of these? You bet! Would they work as well and those? Yes they would. Of course we have a $2800 tube bender and a $4000 dollar TIG welder. Also, I have this nifty attachment to the whole thing called Jason! He did promise to teach me to weld though.
In the Bombers Bay we build many interesting things.
Bruce