rack chins

[hamworld05]

Sir, I don't know how exactly to do rack chins. Whenever I try to do a rack chin, I can't really get a good grip on anything with my feet. Should I try crossing my feet? Would that give me a better grip?

[Mark Rippetoe]

What in the hell are you talking about?

[Carp]

Hamworld,

You're upside down. Try gripping the bar with your hands. That should help.

[Jonathan Vechet]

What in the hell are you talking about?

I believe it's like a horizontal pull up with your feet propped up on something. Gymnasts can do them without propping their feet up.

[hopsluvr]

Last time I had my chin in a rack, I wasn't thinking too much about my feet.

[Bas Trent]

If you're talking about weighted chin-ups from a rack, either hold a dumbbell behind one of your knees, hang it from a belt, put it in a backpack...let the creativity flow, my friend.

[MEbigUsmall]

No he's talking about doing chins with your feet being supported so that is angel more like a row. I think.

[jgh]

This is what he was talking about:


Mr. HONEYBADGER mentioned them in another thread as an alternative to negatives/bands/latpulldown/etc if you can't perform one rep yet.

[Mark Rippetoe]

These are called "hanging rows" for the obvious reasons that 1.) chins are already something else, even when done in a rack, and 2.) rows approach the chest at approximately this angle.

[jgh]

I should clarify that the other rack chin video had a vertical torso, like chins. This was a bad example-- sorry.