This section will be devoted to detailed analysis of not only the principles behind the elegant simplicity of the HoloBarre, but also of why the public is so inundated with useless, poorly made junk.
You should be aware that the simple act of changing the geometry of a structure can totally change the forces it can withstand, as well as generate. This concept is so powerful that it virtually obviates all moving parts in exercise machines, because you yourself generate the resistances.
This is not to be confused with the cockamamy contraptions which have you sit or stand and then through some lever action actually lift your own body weight (very interesting from an experimental rube goldberg point of view, but totally impractical as an everyday piece of equipment.....and complicated!
Rather, by simply changing heights of a bar, and the relative angles of your body and parts thereof, you can generate forces from zero (or less than zero, if you compare tension to compression....more on this later--to MUCH greater than your bodyweight. If this is in fact true, and it is, why do we need all kinds of machines and weights?
The answer is, because we have to think a little bit about what I have just said, in order to put it into action. And this little bit of thought has apparently been enough to send America on a wild spending spree simply to avoid the pain of thinking.
What I am banking on is that the pain of having been ripped off for the past 10 to 20 years perhaps has become greater than the pain of thinking, and that maybe we will find out that thinking is actually not so bad. Enough ranting.
Imagine you are standing up next to a wall, or even better, next to the HoloBarre. You reach out and grab the bar. How much HORIZONTAL force are you applying? Theoretically, ZERO force. Think about it: you must LEAN OVER to really exert a force on the wall or bar.
Now get on the floor and try and do a pushup. How much force is on your hands? It turns out that it is about two-thirds of your bodyweight!
Now, put your feet up on a chair or the Barre, about 1 or 2 feet off the ground. How much force is on your hands? About 20 pounds more than 2/3 of your body weight.
Now, do a handstand. How much weight is on your hands? Essentially your whole body weight.
So what we have demonstrated is that by changing angles and heights of a bar, you can generate from zero to your total bodyweight on your hands and arms
More to come...........