Dip belt
- Thread starter Bob Evans
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Hi Bob,
Have a back support belt? If so, simply put an "S" hook on each end of a 36" piece of chain. One end attaches to the buckle of your belt. The other end loops through a plate and hooks back into the chain. If you don't have that type belt, any wide webbing material (to spread the weight across your lower back) will work just fine. Perhaps a rappelling harness is in your arsenal?
Good luck.
Arcturus
Have a back support belt? If so, simply put an "S" hook on each end of a 36" piece of chain. One end attaches to the buckle of your belt. The other end loops through a plate and hooks back into the chain. If you don't have that type belt, any wide webbing material (to spread the weight across your lower back) will work just fine. Perhaps a rappelling harness is in your arsenal?
Good luck.
Arcturus
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Someone on the Forum once suggested putting plates in a old knapsack and strapping same to your back. That would be a good solution (and a cheap one) unless/until you need to add significant poundage.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...09?v=glance&s=sporting-goods&n=507846
If the link doesn't work go to amazon, type in dip belt and it's the first one that comes up. ATP wriststraps are the company that actually make it.
It's nylon as opposed to leather, which apparently is more comfortable I bought mine about a month ago and its been great...just make sure you sit down when you load the plates on or it gets a bit awkward! :-D
If the link doesn't work go to amazon, type in dip belt and it's the first one that comes up. ATP wriststraps are the company that actually make it.
It's nylon as opposed to leather, which apparently is more comfortable I bought mine about a month ago and its been great...just make sure you sit down when you load the plates on or it gets a bit awkward! :-D
Thanks gentlemen. I broke the code. I lift in the pm at a cruddy gym with no dip belt and no decline bench. I lift in the am in a small community center workout room.
Since there is a new gym opening in a month I did not want to buy a belt. So I figured out the community center has a dip belt but no dip station.....go figure. So I am using the arms from a tred mill as a dip station and using that belt am.
But thanks. Those on line belts are cheap. I think I might get one anyways.
Lession: It may look like a tredmill -- but it is really a dip station (wide bars too)
Bob
Since there is a new gym opening in a month I did not want to buy a belt. So I figured out the community center has a dip belt but no dip station.....go figure. So I am using the arms from a tred mill as a dip station and using that belt am.
But thanks. Those on line belts are cheap. I think I might get one anyways.
Lession: It may look like a tredmill -- but it is really a dip station (wide bars too)
Bob