Not all chin up bars come with the softened grips. Which is nice, when you are doing numerous pull ups. So the only thing remaining is the brackets. Since mine is mounted on the inside of a bedroom, these brackets go unnoticed by everyone that visits.
But my wife put her foot down! One, the black handles that rest on the door trim, can leave some slight non damaging black marks. So this may not be enough to matter to anyone.
It may also depend on the color of your trim. This is an easy fix, just take some old wash rags, and when you mount the bar, slide them between the trim and your chin up bar. Two, I like the old feeling of jumping up and grabbing a chin up bar, and allowing my legs to remain straight. My legs never touch while doing the chin ups.
Again, this is a personal preference and may not matter at all to you. I think most people bend their legs anyway. Chin ups are a part of P90X, so you need a chin up bar or a place to do chin ups. It comes with a 30 day money back guarantee, and I am readily available if should have any problems. We are happy to help you with your products, whether you have questions, problems, or just need some fitness advice.
Good luck with your training and nutrition. Talk to you soon! The injury was caused by the breakage of the equipment that goes over the door trim on the opposite side of the chin up bar. My concern is the safety of the P90x. What is the bar that goes over the door trim made out of? Can this break? The brackets that mount over the doorframe are metal.
And the bar that it connects to is metal. Here are a couple of videos specifically talking about the bar and installation. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. This boot camp is FREE, it's designed to get you started on your fitness and weight loss journey!
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I'm here to help you succeed in your fitness, not bombard you with spam. You can unsubscribe at anytime. We noted if the bars left marks, dents, or chipped paint, with the latter being a considerable issue; given the many coats of paint the apartment's woodwork has accumulated over the years, it dents and peels from the force of a fingernail. To see how the bars worked for people of different sizes, we asked a large male trainer to work out with us.
He and I hung from each bar, noting if we experienced any initial bowing or sagging, and if we had to bend our knees to get off the ground. Spoiler alert: At 6-foot-3, he always did, at least to some extent. The Perfect Fitness Multi-Gym Pro is our pick because it comes with clear assembly instructions, is easy to set up, can accommodate a wide range of door sizes, and offers three grip positions.
It is also gentler on doors compared with all of the other units we tested due to uniquely flat molding contact points, and has a small enough footprint to stow unobtrusively, even in a storage-challenged home. The Perfect Fitness Multi-Gym Pro utilizes the same basic design of the other products: Parallel, L-shaped bars attach to a perpendicular crossbar, which sits inside a metal safety stay that you install between the top molding and the wall.
Out of the bars tested, the three Perfect Fitness products were the easiest to assemble. Their instructions are clearly presented, with both step-by-step pictures and written instructions. The Multi-Gym Pro, unlike any of the other bars tested, has two assembly variations to better accommodate different doorframes.
We assembled it with greater head clearance and narrower doorframe depth, and it fit well on both a and inch doorframe. The frame rests are flat rather than round pipes, like all of the others, which makes for better contact on the woodwork or wall and a reduced risk of leaving compression-caused dents in the wood overtime.
Those wide grips are really too wide for narrow-shouldered people—when you do a wide pull-up, your hands should be just outside of your shoulders. That said, they should be fine for most adults and many teens who are larger people. On smaller doorways, the Multi-Gym Pro should tuck in as long as the surrounding wall allows for the inch crossbar. With the second-smallest footprint of the bars we tested, the well-made Doorway Trainer Plus from Stamina is a great value for people who weigh less than pounds, particularly ones who are smaller-framed.
Its U-shaped bars allow for a variety of pull-up grips, as well as greater clearance from the doorframe when pulling up. The foam covers much of the bar, so you can grasp them at any point, and there are two neutral-grip widths where most bars have only one. This size should work for most people with average-width or smaller shoulders, as reaching too wide for pull-ups can strain rotator cuffs.
On my incher, the crossbar sagged the most noticeably at its center when weight was first applied of any bar tested, despite a center bolt that ostensibly provides fortification. Otherwise, the variety of grips makes this pick from Stamina our choice for smaller people. In some situations, bigger is better. Unlike other wide bars we tested, the Ultimate Body Press has an elevated pull-up bar that projects up and out, adding nearly a foot more ground clearance over the rest of the field.
Aside from being elevated, the high pull-up bar is also angled down slightly, like the bar on a lat pull-down machine. This feature makes it more comfortable in a wide reach and better for muscle activation of the large lat latissimus dorsi muscles of the back—and the Ultimate Body Press is the only model we tested to have this.
That high bar is a full 36 inches wide, which is great for broader-shouldered people, but is covered with foam starting at about 19 inches, giving it versatility for narrower shoulders, too. The narrow and neutral grips are at about the same width as those of the other products tested, and the lower support bar doubles as a second wide- and narrow-grip pull-up bar that is much easier to reach from the ground for shorter folks like me. Assembly was a bit of a pain, both because the diagram was hard to follow, and because the included wrench is flimsy and ill-fitting.
The latter is a problem with all of the bars that came with wrenches, though that's better than the Easy Effort, which came with no tools at all.
An additional tool set made quicker work of things, but not before we scratched the finish on the bar around a couple of the bolts. There were a couple of downsides: First, the thing is huge to store away, so you better make room in a closet or get used to the look of having it up all the time—that is, if you can walk under it; the support bar crosses the doorway about 6 inches from the top, depending on how high your top molding is.
Second, because the upper bars are so high, smaller people would have to either jump, climb, or step on a stool to reach them. Interestingly, in our case, the last was the best way; when regripping to get into place from a climb or jump, the narrow and neutral foam grips would often twist slightly, requiring a tester of that size to re-grip again. And, finally, because of the spot where the support bars aligned on the tested molding, we noticed that the foam on the ends began to compress and stay that way from the weight on it.
It has a similar design and feel to the other contenders, and also boasts patent-pending vise-grip clamps that anchor the unit to the sides of the doorframe. This vise-grip technology gives the unit a rating of up to pounds, but to show how strong their unit is, the cofounders hung a motorcycle—while seated on top of it—from it. This setup provides two narrow grip positions, a neutral grip, and a wide grip, on a par with the options that the better pull-up bars offer. All of the other contenders put disclaimers in their manuals about not swinging on their products and warn that injury may result from a dislodged unit.
It also allows people to do the kipping pull-ups popularized by CrossFit. There are a few drawbacks to this model. It also takes up a lot more space to store than many of the other products, save the Ultimate Body Press, and with the clamps, is more trouble to install and uninstall. Further, in our testing apartment, we had to use it in a doorway that has a door, as the included clamps only open wide enough to pinch the front molding and the molding along the jamb, rather than clamp around the entire frame of the hallway doorway— extended vise-grip locks are available for additional purchase.
Knowing the dimensions of your doorways, moldings, and even hallways is essential to ordering the right pull-up unit. When the makers of the doorframe leverage bars advertise that their products fit doors 24 to 33 or 36 inches wide, they are measuring the width of the gap in the doorframe.
The second challenge is that there is no standard molding size. My molding is greater than an inch, thanks to the many layers of paint, which meant that in order for the top crossbars to lie flush, they were pushed far in toward the wall.
Mine measures 7 inches, which is on the larger side typically, this measures 4. We plan to test the Iron Gym Total Upper Body Workout Bar , which garners strong customer reviews and costs roughly the same as our runner-up pick, as well as the Sagler Doorway Pull-Up Bar , which regularly costs less than our top and runner-up picks but has fewer positive customer reviews.
Slightly smaller and similarly priced to our Stamina pick for smaller people, the Perfect Fitness Multi-Gym Sport is a solid basic option if you prefer a higher, pound weight rating. The whole thing cants forward and down at an odd angle, and it costs nearly double most of our other picks. Stamina also claims that the bar works on doors from 24 to 32 inches wide, but when we put the unit on a inch door, we immediately noticed that the end of two cylinder crossbars pushed into the doorframe molding.
The GoFit Elevated Chin Up Station was rated for larger doorframes 32 inches and larger, which is on the wider end of your typical interior door width , but with the way leverage worked on these units, it appeared this one would be hard on a doorframe. This customer attests to that being the case.
We disqualified the Yes4All Deluxe Chin-Up Bar after just looking at the rubber supports that sit on the right and left molding because they can scuff or dig into a doorframe even reviewers who like this unit otherwise concede this con. She also served as a staff writer for the Good Housekeeping Institute for nearly five years, working closely with the engineers and other scientists to interpret product test results.
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