A power tower is a piece of exercise equipment that incorporates four exercise stations into a single machine for upper body and core strength training using bodyweight exercises. It is tall and narrow, designed to take up minimal floor space and can be used in a gym or home gym.
A power tower is a piece of exercise equipment used to strengthen the upper body and core using bodyweight exercises. Typically, it incorporates four exercise stations into a single machine: a pull-up bar or bars, a pair of dip bars, arm and back pads for vertical knee raises, and another pair of bars or handles for push-ups. The power tower can also feature a collapsible knee pad for assisted push-ups and jumps. Sold under various brands of fitness equipment, it can be purchased for use in a gym or home gym.
Tall and narrow, the Power Tower is designed to incorporate a maximum number of exercises while taking up a minimum amount of floor space. Their exercise stations, therefore, are stacked, with a pull-up bar on top, typically about 7 feet (2.1336 meters) off the ground. The user can hang from this bar, or in some cases, two single horizontal bars, and bring their chest up to the height of the bar, strengthening the upper back muscles and biceps.
Below this, either facing the same direction or to the reverse of the equipment, is a station for performing vertical knee raises. An abdominal exercise, the vertical knee raise involves placing your elbows on a pair of forward-protruding pads, holding a vertical handle at the end of each pad, placing your back against a vertical pad behind them, and hanging with your legs hanging. The user then stretches the knees up or raises the legs forward and then lowers them, training the abdominal and anterior hip muscles.
Another pair of bars project forward from the power tower, typically from the front of the vertical knee-raising pads, to form dip bars. To perform dips, which primarily work the triceps, anterior deltoids, and chest muscles, the user faces the equipment and grasps the bars with their arms down at their sides, supporting their weight on the bars with their legs dangling. The user then bends and straightens their elbows to lower and raise their body weight.
At the base of the power tower and right next to the floor is another pair of bars, these ones designed for push-ups. Arranged parallel to the length of the body so that the hands are placed palms in, they allow the user to lower their body further into a pushup than can be achieved with palms on the floor while exerting minimal stress on the wrists . Pushups work your chest, triceps, shoulders, back, and core muscles.
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