Travis Lift

[Sanjiv Gupta]

Does anybody have experience they can share with the Travis lift? Not too many records and it does not seem to be contested often. The rules allow for a “specially adapted belt attached directly to the bar or connected by a chain” but I am having a hard time picturing it. The picture in the rulebook seems to have a length of leather wrapped around a standard weight belt with connected chains that wrap around the bar.

[Chad Ullom]

We did it once at Al’s many years ago. As I recall there was a belt with hooks that attached to the bar that al made. . It’s a partial lift, just off the pins. Kind of a modified hip lift almost?

[Sanjiv Gupta]

Thanks. Hooks actually make sense. Not sure how adjustable it would be or how adjustable it needs to be.

[KCSTRONGMAN]

Be careful with this lift. It seemed like experienced chain lifters were gold with it, but there was a newby who pulled the weight off the platforms and almost smashed himself.

I'm the lyrical Jesse James

[Sanjiv Gupta]

Thanks for the warning. I don’t expect to ever be an experienced chain lifter, but I would like to learn some of these movements. Being physically attached to an elevated barbell or heavy lift bar certainly sounds like it could end badly.

[KCSTRONGMAN]

No sweat. Just felt like I sw a man almost die that day, if it were not for some quick moving spotters.

I'm the lyrical Jesse James

[ClintPoore]

Is the Travis lift an incremental Rack Pull with a Chain attached to aid in the lift?
It also looks as though it can be supported on the thighs as well.

I have a training partner, Ashley, who loves this kind of lift. Me not so much

• This reply was modified 1 week, 1 day ago by ClintPoore.

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