Are You Feeling Depressed?
Hey, why did you name that funny pull-up bar “The Depressor”?
Tony shows us. And most of us have learned by personal experience with that simple-looking bar: if you had pull-ups before, you might not have them now…
The Depressor knows no mercy. It doesn’t care that you earned multiple muscle-ups; it reduces your number by at least a third. Can you kip? Not any more, you can’t. You can approach the bar feeling like you have gained some upper body strength, but you’ll walk away feeling like your arms are such puny little twigs, it’s a wonder you can even hold a cup of coffee in the morning.
The result is that a circuit with the Depressor is about as cheerful as a death march. Heidi is getting low just waiting for her turn. When someone at the Ice Chamber looks sad during a rest time, you know that something really awful is going to follow.
The idea for the Depressor came to Steve in a dream. Now that’s evil. But there is one time when the Depressor brings us a little bit of joy: when Steve attempts any of his fancy pull up tricks, like the one-arm pull up or two-finger grip, on the Depressor. Dr. Frankenstein, here comes your monster, heh heh.
just to toot my own horn, i came up with “the depressor” because i got depressed the first time i tried to do a pull up on it.
as i was doing my reps of ab excerises this morning under this very bar, i noticed a strange bit of wire lined along the bar…is this the Electrocution Therapy for the Depressor?
If you master the depressor, your pull-ups will feel like body rows. The key is to try using different grips everytime you get on there. By the way, the electrical wire is there to shock you if you chin doesn’t clear the bar.
Just realized that Hiedy looks sad in this pic. Not typical of her. The depressor has seriously effects on people.