If you’re a heavier trainee, chin-ups are difficult… but not impossible. Case in point: I’m nearly 50 years old and weigh 245 pounds, but I do chin-ups for volume rather than output. Here lies the secret to my chin-up success.

Over the past few months, some things in my back training have made a big difference — variations coaches often overlook. Considering paused reps at the chest/stomach, slow eccentrics, scap movements with a rowing motion, and handle/grip variations, back training is limitless.

I’m sure you’ve heard before that the pull-up is to the upper body what the squat is to the lower body.

Why do so many exclude them from their workouts?

If you can’t do chins, you are either hurt, fat or weak.

Video demonstration of EFS Rack Ropes – Chin ups, Leg Raises and Ab Fallouts.

Remember when Beavis and Butthead came out and everyone said, “I could have thought of that?” Well, the Monkey Chin Up Bar is the same way, although I’m not sure that its going to have the same appeal and cash flow as Mike Judge’s characters did.

I started lifting weights in my early teens, using the York concrete-filled plates down in my parent’s basement. This was only the start.