[Robbcore]

Anyone had experience with these??? - Flex-Straps
Look good enough as a cheap substitute to rings for some exercises, but obviously i dont want to buy them and find they snap first time on them or something

[Beev]

Hi Mate.

Yeah they look good, and if I hadnt already made mine for just under £12, I might have got these myself. All the other types I had seen were at the strength company website and the cheapest they have is £39.95 + postage.

My Handles cost me £3.99 from Here, with postage included, and then went down to B&Q and got a pair of 5M tie down straps for £7.49 in a buy 1 get one half price sale.


Here is how the handles have been put together, the webbing hanging loosely act as a foot strap which is an idea I knicked off the design for the TRX.


On the left is how the strap feeds through the buckle, in case you are unsure. On the right, is the stitching which me dear old mother must take credit for. After she saw my really poor attempt at stitching up the handle.


And here is the final product hanging from my pull up bar! This was taken after the first time I had ever tried any kind of suspension type exercises and I am blown away at the difficulty!

Put it this way, I normally do 60 press ups in a continuous set before my form goes to pot and hips sag etc. I struggled to do 6 press ups on these handles! The following day I had a deep soreness really deep in the armpits, like a muscle never been used before type of pain, not a bad pain!

Hope that helps.

Yours,
Beev

[greg]

don't forget london kettlebells have rings for £25 at the moment, which will take at least 18stone apparently

[Robbcore]

Thanks guys, great help as always
didnt think of making my own, thought it would be too difficult, but that looks like something even i could do!!!!

[boldy]

I paid £100 for my TRX thinking I'd go for value... it's not!!!

It still works fine and I've had no problems with it but I could have bought four sets of rings from London kettlebells!

What a rip off!

[Franz29]

Beev, on Apr 22 2009, 07:17 PM, said:

That's a sweet pull-up rack. Did you make it yourself or is it pre-fab?

[Beev]

Franz,

I had it made by the guy at www.customgym.com, which has sadly ceased trading. Its super sturdy. I had it made based on the idea of the TAPS unit, which would have cost me over £500 to ship from the US.

Yours,
Beev