What is this piece of equipment, sloped parallel bars

These are in a park near me, but what is the top centre item?. See how the posts going into the ground are asymmetrical.

These are for adults, there is a childrens playground and this is part of a 'fitness trail'. The parallel bars in the lower left are spaced a normal distance apart, these sloped bars are thicker and closer together, so I can just manage dips on them.

Other equipment has signs saying what it is and how to use it but none on this piece.

To use the sloped parallel bars jump up on the bars as though you were going to perform a dip and then, with straight arms, walk up the rails on your hands to the top.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

On another note, does anyone know what a place like this would be called? I am temporarily living in Dallas and am completely new to the area, but the town I used to live in had one near me and I really enjoyed being able to get my workout done outside. Since I sit inside all day working, I'd love to combine my workout time with "outside" time, but I don't know what to Google to find these in the Dallas area. I can search for "parks", but few parks include these things, and most of the parks have really crappy websites.

Awesome!

I wish I had a park like that near me!

I would love to try Coach's suggestion in a HS 8)

This thread came up a while back with a link from crossfit about a 'man test,' essentially it requires the participant to walk up and down the PBs performing dips at either end, i imagine performing this challenge on your slanted bars being much more demanding and productive!

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Anyhow, Enjoy your new park! I'm sure you'll have many a good session there.

Chris.

... This thread came up a while back with a link from crossfit about a 'man test,' essentially it requires the participant to walk up and down the PBs performing dips at either end ...

If this is a 'man test', I will have to quit calling the 6 year olds on my team 'boys'.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

.. This thread came up a while back with a link from crossfit about a 'man test,' essentially it requires the participant to walk up and down the PBs performing dips at either end ...

If this is a 'man test', I will have to quit calling the 6 year olds on my team 'boys'.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

HAHA! Well if we are basing it purely on pound for pound phsyical prowess, then I'm sure they are more 'man' than most crossfitters!

I still stand by what i said though, that completing this 'test' on sloped bars would prove an interesting challenge for most of us mortal fitness enthusiasts!

If that isn't difficult enough then, as you said on the aforementioned thread, completing the 'man test' in a handstand on the sloped bars would make for a fantastic challenge! Maybe not the most productive way to spend precious training time... but it sure would be a lot of fun! Always an important aspect to include in training every so often!

Yours,

Chris.

As well as Coach's suggestion of straight arm support walking up the rails, i like to then invert at the other end, and keeping the body straight and the scapulas engaged, walk back the other way (like an inverted farmers walk!)

Coach Sommer said:

To use the sloped parallel bars jump up on the bars as though you were going to perform a dip and then, with straight arms, walk up the rails on your hands to the top.

Thanks Coach, I have done this a few times, the slope makes it a lot harder. At the top the bars turn out to the sides, allowing for various hand positions for dips. There is a sign next to the regular parallel bars with a photo of a woman in her 50's doing walks and a description of how to do them. As these sloped bars are closer together and have strangely different ends I thought they might not have been simply sloped P-bars. I now wonder if the closeness of them was simply an installation mistake.

ScottTho said:

On another note, does anyone know what a place like this would be called?

I have heard them called 'fitness trails', in this one they are located all around the park, evenly spaced apart. Runners can pass them and do a few reps on each and run to the next.

Some people go to playgrounds early in the morning or at night, there is one near me with arched monkey bars, going upwards is a lot harder on these.