Contoured chin up bars

[cannibal.horse]

I've seen a lot of chin up bars in commercial gyms which contour towards the end and have heard stories that these can cause wrist pain.

Is there truth in this or is it just a wives tale?

sorry to be inane.

[Mark Rippetoe]

This is awfully inane. Why would you chin/pullup on anything but a straight bar anyway?

[Bootsy]

http://startingstrength.com/resource...ght=chins+lats

I know it's been covered but that was all I came up with on short notice. I can only assume you're talking about the bars that slope down on the ends (similar to a pulldown machine), or angle inward for a quasi-hammer grip for close chins. The wide pull-ups isolate the lats more, but if you want arms like Rip you have to do chins on a straight bar.

[cannibal.horse]

This is awfully inane. Why would you chin/pullup on anything but a straight bar anyway?

Sorry Rip.

I don't think I've ever been to a commercial gym that didn't have contoured bars.

[El Viejo]

This is awfully inane. Why would you chin/pullup on anything but a straight bar anyway?

Ripp,
Believe it or not, there are gyms that do not even have a plain old straight chin-up bar. The gym I go to has a cable crossover machine that has bars going every which way but straight attached to the center of the cross beam and a gravitron type machine that also has everything except a straight bar. I don't know where the designers of these things get these stupid ideas.

[Mark Rippetoe]

The wide pull-ups isolate the lats more, but if you want arms like Rip you have to do chins on a straight bar.

And what fool would not want arms like mine? I ask you.

[isis]

The one acceptable use of a Smith machine is for chin-ups, when you find yourself in one of those silly gyms with no straight chin-up bars.

[coreJack]

The one acceptable use of a Smith machine is for chin-ups, when you find yourself in one of those silly gyms with no straight chin-up bars.

Guys on this site might interpret a statement like that as flirting.

[Sami]

Have you ever seen Rip's huge arms? They are very impressive.

[Gwyn Brookes]

Guys on this site might interpret a statement like that as flirting.

I am not a guy on this site so maybe that's why I don't get it. Why would someone interpret this as flirtatious? I am honestly interested.