I was thinking attaching them to the dumbbell, or wrapping them around your forearm. Big heavy chains, not jewelry.
They will make you look better in a bikini.
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I seen on the internet someone built some dumbbells out of black threaded pipe. The threads on these pipes hold a surprising amount of weight but for heavy Kroc rows I would consider adding Locktight to the threads. Photo below from the net. I would also put athletic tape on the “handle” for better grip considering there isn’t any knurling.
Also seen it done as a fat grip dumbbell using gorilla tape and 2” sch 40 pipe (what people make axel bars out of).
In a pinch something like this might work.
Idk, i did this until i was repping high 20s on the 110s at my gym. I was hitting cardio failure, not rep failure.
I do this as my main lat thickness movement, and have subsequently maxed out the machine there too.
So we’ve come full circle to making the base movement harder to continue progression.
Yeah, I know. Years ago I watched Tate’s EliteFTS video where he said how to make and use chains starting with 1/2” and 5/8” links and a carabiner. The 26-30 lb. ones are readily available. These chains look awesome in the gym, especially a commercial gym, but unlike jewellery do nothing for your douche score, if you like bro science threads.
The reason I want to try Kroc rows is because I think a 150-200 pound row would be challenging and the available dumbbells are not. The short bar would work if I could get one.
I think I would rather look younger, than look fetching in a bikini. However, wearing a bikini might be preferable to listening to Nickelback.
I have rowed using the normal 45. Maybe my balance would get better doing it more often.
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That bro science thread is my baby!
I have a bunch of chains in my basment sex dun . . . Err, gym. So I thought it might be a useful option.
Who’s going to tell him?
Probably like the rest of us, Kroc looked better 20 years ago too. Seeing Ray Kroc in a bikini though.might make me grimace.
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My gym doesn’t have a Tbar. Nor a chairlift. Meadows are an option. I haven’t seen anyone rowing on a Bosu ball recently but it’s probably just a matter of time. The Smith incline row is better than it sounds, easy to position so you can max that sucker good.
Ray Kroc (who founded McDs) didn’t do much for making people look better in swimwear. But his full and unabbreviated last name is Kroc.
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You learn something new every day.
But I’m not going to talk smack about Janae Kroc.
Pretty sure they have the smarts and strength to show up at my house one morning while I’m making coffee and yeet me out the window.
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I totally missed the joke. Well done.
How much weed do you have to smoke to even come up with an anthropomorphic hamburger mayor, a hypomanic clown, a thief with very low expectations and whatever grimace is? Maybe it’s for the best they don’t seem to be around much these days…
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Was told by my kids just today that grimace is supposed to be a “taste bud”. Not sure if that’s correct but funny that it came up in conversation today and I read the statement “whatever grimace is” here just now. Life’s funny that way.
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That wouldn’t have been in my top thousand guesses. And eating there, I’m not sure that would even be beneficial.
But the real story is the characters were basically stolen from a bizarre 70s TV show called HR Pufenstuf. Before my time.
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I’ve never seen the Pufenstuf cartoon from the early 70s. The characters were so similar they lost a hefty lawsuit.
I’ve read Grimace was originally all about stealing milkshakes. Don’t know if that’s true. But clearly the Fry Guys and Hamburglar had similar motivations. So just what type of neighborhood was the first restaurant located in? Why this obsession with kleptomaniac spokespeople? And the food is that good to justify such skullduggery and sabotage?
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My kids were having the same thoughts just not put so eloquently!
Wondering if a solid metal kettlebell handle loadable with plates would be a good substitute for insufficient dumbbells, plus other practical uses? Seen ones that handle above 200 lbs…
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Sure, why not?
Or maybe a tricep bar? A dude here does suitcase style deadlifts with one, why not some rows?
Triceps bar is not perfectly balanced with no middle handle, but who cares? Probably quite useable. I have done 135 lb one arm rows with the standard long bar. Doable, but without practice not as smooth a movement as I would like. Probably should just do it more.
Center of mass below center of gravity. Perfect balance!
For the bar shown, there is empty space where the centre of mass is. No matter. Where there’s a will there’s a way. (Although sometimes if government is involved, where there’s a will there’s a won’t). Gravity can be simplified to act at the centre of mass; not different.
But it’s a good suggestion. I’ll try the triceps trick.
(Of course, I could lift the bar vertically. But then balance is even worse.)