Mueller Center - Parallel Chin-up/Leg Raise

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Chin-Ups

    A variation on this, if you can't lift your own weight, is to use the assisted Paramount chin-up/dip machine upstairs. Or if you are stronger than your weight, you can hang on to additional weight - either hold a dumbbell between your legs or use a chain to hold a barbell plate around your waist.
• Other back exercises.
• Other bicep exercises.

Leg Raises

    Use the front part of the stand. Bring your knees up to a horizontal postion. It is harder if you keep your feet out straight.
    Joanna demonstrates how to use it: (photos need to be lightened)
• [Starting position.]
• [Intermediate position.]
• [Ending position.]
• [Unedited, unnarrated video clip.]
• [With your legs out straight.]
    Josh suggests starting with your knees up to the raised position (horizontal) and then bring them up further toward your chest - VERY hard.
• [Unedited, unnarrated video clip. (Even Josh has trouble doing it this way.)]
    Josh also said you could use the back part of the stand to grasp by your hands and hang straight down, or use the center section of the Paramount cable-machine. This eliminates the back support.
• [Hanging from the Paramount cable cross machine.]
    (Joanna is one of the workstudies at the Mueller. This is her first semester working here. She is also a member of the varsity swim team.)
• Other ab exercises.

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