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The Genuine Gerard Trap Bar Review
What is a Trap Bar?
Al Gerard, a powerlifter from North Carolina, suffered chronic back problems. To alleviate pain and lost training days, he invented and patented the Gerard Trap Bar. The Trap bar is the safest, most comfortable way to deadlift. It allows lifters to works legs and back very efficiently and substantially reduce low back stress. Simply put, it allows you to grow bigger, stronger and faster.
Why a Gerard Trap Bar?
The Genuine Gerard Trap Bar is specifically designed to allow a lifter to stand inside of it. This unique configuration moves the weights closer to the body, and as a result, improves balance and eliminates interference with the torso and thighs. This one, simple circumstance expands the range of muscle contraction and pays big dividends by way of greater muscular development. It's also important to know that moving the weight resistance closer in reduces strain on the lower back.
More specifically, because the Trap Bar allows a lifter to maintain a more upright posture, less shearing force is exerted on the spine. Simply put, a Shrug Bar allows high intensity workouts with less risk of painful injury.
The Benefits of a Genuine Gerard Trap Bar
- The lifter assumes a more upright position when starting a lift. The knees don't interfere with the bar.
- The weight moves directly upward instead of sideways.
- The lifter has better control of the bar
- The weight moves in line with the ankles improving leverage.
- Lower back stress is reduced.
- Shearing force on spine and knees is reduced.
- It's easier to maintain good form Elbow and wrist-joint strain is reduced by eliminating opposite grips. Standing shrugs yield improved trapezius development because the bar never contacts the thighs interfering with range of motion.
- A trap bar moves the weight mass sixteen-percent closer to the perpendicular plane of the lower back than a conventional straight bar.
Trap Bar Specifications:
The Genuine Gerard Trap is available to fit both Olympic and standard diameter plates. It is manufactured in the United States, not Taiwan, not the Philippines. The Olympic version of the bar weighs 45 pounds, the exercise plate bar weighs 30 pounds.
The genuine Gerard Trap Bar design is patented. It is also a protected tradename. Middle Coast Publishing, Inc. owns the exclusive rights to produce and sell this bar Worldwide.
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