Monday, November 30, 2009

  • John Grimek


    • Here's the great John Grimek performing what is commonly known as "the overhead downward pull" with a chest expander. This is an excellent movement for broadening the back muscles, and one that you should be doing if you train at all with chest expanders.

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    Monday, November 10, 2008

  • York Chest Expanders


    • The York Barbell Company was most famous for selling barbells, but they featured a variety of other types of equipment as well. One of the most popular was chest expanders which were much easier to transport places than heavy weights.

    In fact, York had several different types of chest expanders, the flat band type, similar to Noe's Graduated Xercisor, the round cable type, similar to modern chest expanders and the metal spring type, similar to those used in Strand Pulling Contests.

    Regardless, you can get a great workout with all of them (but be sure to wear a shirt if you're training with metal springs!)

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