I've been doing the 'cat stretch' already, but unfortunately I can't see anything else there that would help. Thanks though
Much later edit:
So my Powerbar came today. Let me list the ways in which I love it:
- Heavy duty metal supports, I easily believe the 20st limit, and my 18st house mate had a good go and it was rock solid, could probably hold more than 20st.
- Requires no screwing into walls or any fittings what-so-ever.
- Can put it up in the time it takes you to raise both your arms...
- Wide enough for wide-grip pulls.
- I can imagine it would work on almost any door frame, as long as it's not especially and unusually thick, we live in a pretty old house with mouldings etc so our door frames are quite thick and it fits fine.
- £30 including delivery.
(no I'm not a Powerbar salesman, the product just works really well and I like it when you pay money for something and it works 100% as it should.)
The only slight design flaw are the two 'hook' parts that go behind the door frame, they end in rubber caps but they are still pretty small to be spreading so much force (especially if you have a softer plaster finish). However this can easily be fixed by simply balling up some padding material and duct taping it to the ends (I didn't need to do this but it would fix the issue if anyone experienced it).
So yeah, pleased with my purchase. Also, having an actual nice round bar to grip onto has made a
massive difference, my lats seemed to have done much more work and my fore-arms are less sore from trying to maintain a right angle grip. Overall I managed to do less pull ups as well, as my grip was wider with it and my form better - but I took this as a good thing, I've got more of a way to go before I have to go weighted. Also I had nowhere to do the 'palms facing inwards' pullup (which ever one that is) before, now I do
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