ATTENTION reverse hyper/web cam owners

[endpoint]

I have never had a clear understanding of how a reverse hyper is assembled and what it looks like.

What i am asking is if you have a web cam and a reverse hyper.......if you could take photos of the underside and the main functionings of the machine.

please reply, or PM me

thank you

also if anyone knows where this information is avalible online.

 

[tlhc]

http://asp.elitefts.com/qa/default.asp?qid=4108&tid=51

my first time trying to hyperlink and post a picture, won't work probably, so i post the urls again
http://asp.elitefts.com/qa/default.asp?qid=4108&tid=51
http://asp.elitefts.com/images/upload/qa/reverse hyprs.BMP

 

[endpoint]

thanks for that.......

i had already seen the pictures though.

i cant quite figure out: is that a chain attached to an arm or what?

 

[Sergeant]

We have one at my gym and it has a long arm with a "T" at the end for Olimpic plates. The picture seems to be a small arm with a chain and a band attatched. If you use this setup can you let me know if it works as it would be a lot easier to build.

 

[endpoint]

i was watching the westside squat tapes for the first time......it has them doing reverse hypers on the one with the chain.

when kenny does them there is a wicked jolt at the end that cant be good......it happens on every set/rep.

Im in the middle of building one now.....i think i will stick with a straight bar unless someone points out why they have the chain.

maybe additional pull and the bottom (as the chains momentum keeps on pulling it)

 

[bubba2k]

Well

I just used a chain, because it was easier to make. I sure as shit ain't no welder and knew a pivot arm would be a real bitch for me to fabricate.

What I read is the reason the WSB guys use the chain is because it is less stable.

 

[endpoint]

what do you think they mean by less stable?

it pulls in more directions or something?


with a normal one wouldnt to just be two L shaped brackets (welded to the top of the legs/units under the padding) with a steel tube fo the arm


or does the arm actually move in more than one dirrection?

 

[Night Fly]

I'm not sure if Hannibal has gotten his reverse hyper in, but you might want to send him an email about it....he might be able to help you out.

 

[bubba2k]

Stable

With the pivot arm it will only move in one plane. With the chain there is the possibility of side to side movement. Whether it makes a huge difference I don't know. But that is what I have read. I can't really tell you for sure much from my experience because I have used a little different technique at home, more concentrating on form than just doing the reps and moving as much weight as possible.

One plus with a chain you can do more effective one leg movements. 1 leg stuff is a new favorite of mine.

 

[endpoint]

bubba2k: yeah i dont think i will be using it in the same way as they do on the video.

im gonna slow it down and focus on the movement......especially the lowering.......ill take that slow, to get the full rehabilitation effects how on earth did you attach the chain to the arm?

 

[bubba2k]

Eye bolts

Like that link I posted. At home this is the same basic setup I have. At the gym(the fuckers had to go out of business) I used to belong to it was a standard pivot arm. Though not a LOuie Simmons model, I think they had it custom made. I used more freewheeling form and was right at 200 when my work changed and I had trouble getting there. Now I am maybe at 130 or so, but with alot stricter from. I think that I could probably hit my old numbers with a couple or three months training, but with the new form.

As for the movement one thing I have thrown in from time to time is a pause at the top. Now that is tough. Really hits the muscles hard. Doing a pause at the top, even if just for a count, cuts maybe 40-50 pounds off what I do for a set. But my errectors really notice the difference. That is if I am using a little farther back stance, with a little of my torso off the bench. I once asked Tate or one of the other westside guys on some web forum, it has been a couple of years, and this is one of the variations he mentioned was to adjust where your torso is on the machine. Try varying your position, you'll like the different effects.

A guy at the gym even turned me onto one leg work. And then I got to thinking about Paul Anderson doing sets of 20 or so in the one leg squat at 330+. Damn was he strong. So I am throwing some one leg work into my routine. Haven't really done the one leg reverse hypers enough to offer advice.

But whatever form you use, high rep stuff is still hard. When I do a hard set of RH(in any form) I am breathing as if I had done a set of ten in the deadlift or squat, almost anyway. It does feel a lot like a deadlift.