One of my favorite pulling movements is the chest-supported T-bar row. When I was still a gym patron, my upper-body pull days would almost always feature this lift, along with pull-ups or chin-ups, cable rows, pulldowns, and dumbbell rows. In garage gym life, the T-bar setup is more challenging: Not only is it a prohibitively … Continue reading Equipment Review: Save Space With This Land Mine
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Equipment Review: Maybe Don’t Buy Perfect Fitness’ Ab Straps
Toward the tail end of 2016, I bought the Perfect Fitness Ab Straps for hanging leg raises. I liked the price point, and Perfect Fitness (you probably recognize them more for their as-seen-on-TV Perfect Push-Up equipment) seemed to have carved a respectable foothold in the equipment industry for niche products. As far as pads strapped to … Continue reading Equipment Review: Maybe Don’t Buy Perfect Fitness’ Ab Straps
All hail the Dead Wedge, the deadlifting thing we never knew we needed
Will the Dead Wedge help you shatter your PRs, brah, or ultimately shatter your perception of what the deadlift can be? Nah. But it's a quality-of-life add, to be sure.