Substituting Farmers Walk?

The Woggle · 07-08-2005, 11:11 AM

I don't have any of those farmers walk bars (yet), 'cause they're rather expensive. But, I was wondering if just grabbing a real heavy barbell off the power rack and holding onto it would substitute for a farmers walk.... I could walk with some dumbbells at the gym, but they only go up to 125's, and I am wanting to go heavier. So would just holding onto a heavy barbell suffice???

cockysprinter · 07-08-2005, 01:57 PM

use dumbells or get hardcore with two barbells

ENTROPY1 · 07-08-2005, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by The Woggle

I don't have any of those farmers walk bars (yet), 'cause they're rather expensive. But, I was wondering if just grabbing a real heavy barbell off the power rack and holding onto it would substitute for a farmers walk.... I could walk with some dumbbells at the gym, but they only go up to 125's, and I am wanting to go heavier. So would just holding onto a heavy barbell suffice???

Ideally you can purchase 2 olympic tricep bars such as the one in the image below and load it with as much weight as you'd like.

Wam, bam, thank you man....Farmers Walks.

**Urban** · 07-08-2005, 07:43 PM

That looks like a hammer curl bar. But yes, a trap bar works nicely in a pinch.

IliketoFight · 07-09-2005, 08:56 AM

i use barbell..also use barbell for one arm barbell shrugs, think it makes it harder then dumbell because u have to keep weight stablized and centered.

Dan181 · 07-09-2005, 12:13 PM

El Sled!

Bueno!

ENTROPY1 · 07-11-2005, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban

That looks like a hammer curl bar. But yes, a trap bar works nicely in a pinch.

Given the two primary uses that it has, one could refer to it as either a hammer curl bar, or a tricep bar.

Upon typing "tricep bar" in a search, two of the following links were yielded:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search.html...s=tricep%20bar

http://www.shopping.com/xGS-Tricep_B...in_id-3058367~

The Woggle · 07-11-2005, 01:28 PM

Wow, not one single yay or nay.... Oookaaaayy...

Anyway, on Friday, after I did my CoC grippers, I just grabbed a hold of a 405 barell and held on for as long as I could (which is not that long, as of now), and I did that for a few sets. ... it seemed to be a pretty good forearm workout...