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Archive for October, 2008

31
Oct

motor learning

During training I find myself explaining why we don’t, for example, use a Smith machine (a rack which guides the barbell along a fixed groove in which it is suspended on cables; the Smith machine offers the benefit of making it impossible to fall with the barbell outside of the protected path, and a simple [...]

30
Oct

pull-up bars

If they’re really BIG monkey bars, it’s best to call them gorilla bars, right?
My standards for pull-up bars have ratcheted pretty tight. Hence our custom-built bars.

In Oman, I made two separate pull-up bar systems. The first I designed to be portable, but was large, at 8′ / 96″ tall, with bars of 1″, 1.5″, 2″ [...]

16
Oct

Pull-up bars, WHEN?

We’ve been working on our pull-up bars goodawful long. We think they’ll be done and installed in the next 4-5 days. The delay consisted mostly of finding a welder / fabricator to reliably take on the job. Once we were settled on our fabricator, a month went by before his shop was working. Today I’m [...]

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