Door Frame Pull-up Bar > Fitness

Posted: 2/21/2009 9:22:07 PM EDT

Can anyone recommend a good door frame pull-up bar that won't cause any damage? I'm in an apartment here and would like to get something going without wrecking anything. Thanks.

Posted: 2/22/2009 6:28:25 AM EDT

[#1]

My roommate bought this one from Walgreen's or some other local drug store for a good price. It is much sturdier than I thought it would be in our POS apartment, and will hold 220-230lbs(the heaviest of us tried it, and it did fine).

Posted: 2/23/2009 4:53:52 PM EDT

[#2]

I bought mine at Sports Authority.

Holds my 170lb body plus a 50lb dumbbell while doing pull/chin ups.

Posted: 2/23/2009 4:57:17 PM EDT

[#3]

Sexual frustrations can be a bitch, huh?

TRG

Posted: 2/23/2009 5:12:46 PM EDT

[#4]

Posted: 2/23/2009 5:25:53 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Maybe he's fat, pathetic and insecure?

Posted: 2/23/2009 5:29:22 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

This thing is great Door Gym

I got one for Christmas.

Posted: 2/23/2009 5:30:46 PM EDT

[#7]

Timely subject. I was considering a doorjamb one but I just got back from Lowe's buying the parts needed to build an outdoor one. I'm hoping to get it set up tomorrow.

Posted: 2/23/2009 5:34:14 PM EDT

[#8]

I'm in a little 600 square foot apartment in Knoxville for work, 750 miles from my nice house and lovely wife, so I'm bored, sexually frustrated and trying not to be so fat, actually. Thanks for asking. Fuckfaces.

Posted: 2/24/2009 2:57:50 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
I'm in a little 600 square foot apartment in Knoxville for work, 750 miles from my nice house and lovely wife, so I'm bored, sexually frustrated and trying not to be so fat, actually. Thanks for asking. Fuckfaces.

No gym available locally?

Posted: 2/24/2009 5:28:26 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
I'm in a little 600 square foot apartment in Knoxville for work, 750 miles from my nice house and lovely wife, so I'm bored, sexually frustrated and trying not to be so fat, actually. Thanks for asking. Fuckfaces.

It's kind of what we do, you know?

TRG

Posted: 2/24/2009 5:47:43 AM EDT

[#11]

I think he misses you Jarhead_22.

(ok, ok, he has mentioned a dream or two about you, but I think he was just hoping for one)

Let us know when you get back so we can drink and enjoy some wings or TRG's cooking.

TXL

Posted: 2/24/2009 7:20:33 AM EDT

[#12]

This is a technical forum. Shut your pieholes unless you know where to get a decent pull-up bar.

Posted: 2/24/2009 8:12:26 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
This is a technical forum. Shut your pieholes unless you know where to get a decent pull-up bar.

Easy dude. You got three best-friends here teasing each other.

TRG

Posted: 2/24/2009 8:27:57 AM EDT

[#14]

Easy Effort Universal Door Mount Pull up Bar - http://www.pullupbar.com/

I had a UD6 for over a year and it held up fine. I moved to a smaller place and got a UD5 in the fall. The new UD6 with more padded areas might be even better if it'll fit your doorway. Measure twice, order once!

I've used two of the main department store versions, and they're not nearly as nice. The Easy Effort one's are made in Canada with predominantly US parts. Very high quality.

Posted: 2/24/2009 4:56:04 PM EDT

[#15]

I just got this one. its the p90x version.

seem ok so far...give me a few to see how it turns out

http://www.extremely-fit.com/images/chinupbar002.jpg

I think youtube has some vids

Posted: 2/25/2009 5:05:27 AM EDT

[#16]

I have the iron gym. It's pretty good if you stick to it. The only thing I don't like is that being in a door frame, it limits movement.

Posted: 2/25/2009 11:25:23 AM EDT

[#17]

I have the Iron Gym also, its nice and portable. Can do pull ups underhand, neutral and overhand. Also sit ups, push ups and dips. Great $30 investment

Posted: 2/28/2009 5:28:17 AM EDT

[#18]

I got a NY barbell doorway pull-up bar and don't use it. If you are interested, IM me.

Posted: 6/13/2009 1:18:19 PM EDT

[#19]

BTT since this seems to pop up periodically anyway.

Quoted:
Easy Effort Universal Door Mount Pull up Bar - http://www.pullupbar.com/

I had a UD6 for over a year and it held up fine. I moved to a smaller place and got a UD5 in the fall. The new UD6 with more padded areas might be even better if it'll fit your doorway. Measure twice, order once!

I've used two of the main department store versions, and they're not nearly as nice. The Easy Effort one's are made in Canada with predominantly US parts. Very high quality.

I'm in a long-term hotel type thing for work right now, and I brought my older UD6 with me, thinking I'd get in a few sets in the morning when I wake up and when I get off work. I thought I was quite clever remembering to bring it with me, until I get into the room and there's a smoke detector right above the door! D'oh!

I'm not a particularly handy guy, but I was able to find a solution. Went to Lowes and picked up a pre-cut 3/4"x1.5"x24" piece of hardwood trip and set about making a replacement for the wood above-the-doorway piece. No power tools used, just my grandfather's old carpentery tools: brace & bit, coping saw, crosscut saw, miter box.

Ta-da:

Posted: 6/13/2009 7:00:16 PM EDT

[#20]

I have an Iron Gym and it works perfectly, some of the best money I have ever spent. The only negative is I had it at my buddy's house for a month and it left black marks on his white doorframe, they came out with some scrubbing though.

Posted: 6/13/2009 7:34:11 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
The only negative is I had it at my buddy's house for a month and it left black marks on his white doorframe, they came out with some scrubbing though.

Notice the socks on the door contact points above.

Learned that the hard way too.

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