I had a little, dog-eared notebook full of different techniques, bad pencil sketches of different angles and holds to work different muscles. It’s amazing how varied and productive bar pulling can be.

I didn’t invent this inmates have been doing it for hundreds of years to get strong. In Convict Conditioning I wrote about how I used to pull on prison bars for an iso workout. I’ve used isos in some manner for decades since the earliest days of my training, in fact. Since Dragon Door is about to release the ISOCHAIN-a project I’ve been heavily involved in, from the get-go-I thought I’d talk a bit about bodyweight and isos to my PCC brethren. We’ve all read an article about their benefits, thought about seriously applying them, then put the ideas back in a dusty mental drawer and continued with our usual old training. We’ve all heard about isometrics static training “isos”. “Isometrics” is a word virtually everyone who trains knows pretty well. Let’s chit-chat about ‘em tumble some thoughts around in the brain-laundry, and see what colors run, eh? I’ve also been working isometrics- hard-for the last couple years or so, and feeling stronger and tougher than ever as a result.

One type of training in particular- isometrics. I’ve sure been thinking about training a lot these days. …Uh…some training talk might take your mind off it, huh? …Wait, what? She did what with the mailman? She took the kids, too? Damn. I missed ya! How’s the wife? I always thought she was a honey…a real catch!

Iso 7x isometric workout bar exercises