Parallel Bar Support Hold
A step-by-step form guide from the Ægir Iron exercise library: how to do the lift, what to watch for, and the muscles it trains.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
HOW TO PERFORM
- Get up onto a set of parallel bars, or two sturdy chairs, with the arms locked straight.
- Push the shoulders down away from the ears and squeeze the whole body tight.
- Hold. Two chairs or the corner of a kitchen counter work if you have no bars.
FORM TIPS
- Locked elbows and depressed shoulders are the whole exercise. If either goes, the set is over.
- This is the first rung of the dip ladder and builds the position every later rung needs.
TARGET MUSCLES
Primary
- Shoulders
- Triceps
Secondary
- Traps
- Chest
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