Pull up bar

Auldloon

Hi all, longtime lurker and gotta say have had some great info from this forum. My first question is anyone used one of these and any opinions welcome http://www.ukfitnesssupplies.co.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/UKFitnessSuppliesLtd/POWERBAR?gclid=CJ6SvK2Rj5ACFQEkQgodOllyuQ
I need something along these lines as i workout in partners home gym. Dont really want to start drilling holes in her ceiling in case she starts getting DIY ideas for me

Jeebus

That looks great, actually !

Anyone know of any Irish websites selling this, please ?

Jimmy Bottlehead

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055148843 is an older thread relating to this... if anyone got either the Powerbar or the Doorway Gym Mickk was selling, I'd love to hear what you thought. Cheers!

Recon

I got one of these a few years ago. Put it in the doorway in about 3 minutes and never had any trouble with it.

Jimmy Bottlehead

Recon wrote: »

I got one of these a few years ago. Put it in the doorway in about 3 minutes and never had any trouble with it.

Aye, I have one of those too. Cheers for the tip man... only problem is that I rent so can't use screws. It'd have to just be attached to the door frame.

rubadub

The removable ones also have the advantage of being higher up. The door way ones are limited and you really have to bend you legs to use them.

I also have gymnastic rings looped on my chinning bar. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055149676

I no longer use my bench, chest work is done on rings. I now only use weights for squats, deadlifts & military press, I add weights to a dipping belt for use on the rings.

As the rings hang lower it is best to get them high as possible, if you were able to screw things in there would be no need for a bar at all, you can put fixings in the ceiling for rings.

BlueIsland

Someone was saying pull up bar can help to increase muscle in a fairly quick time. is this true ????

rubadub

BlueIsland wrote: »

Someone was saying pull up bar can help to increase muscle in a fairly quick time. is this true ????

If you put the work in you should be able to get similar results as using free weights when working those particular muscles, you are essentially lifting weights, your own. And chins & pullups are great compound movements, working a good array of "real world" functional muscles. Using rings brings even more muscles into play as you have to steady yourself, muscles are used to stabilise yourself, as the rings move your joints are not as limited in movement as holding a static bar. I feel safer training with my own body weight than using freeweights.

With just a chinning bar you can only do so much work, i.e. with freeweights you can do more so build more overall muscle due to working more muscle.

Supercell

I got one from Mickk, no need to screwing anything into the frame, it justs rests on the top :-

Jimmy Bottlehead

Longfield wrote: »

I got one from Mickk, no need to screwing anything into the frame, it justs rests on the top :-

Is it good??

LionelNashe

Hi folks,

Has anyone who is much over 6 foot tried any of the door mounted pullup bars?

I have a simple bar that goes inside the doorframe, secured with screws on either side, but I'm practically kneeling on the floor if I hang at full stretch below it.

The powerbar etc. that lever themselves inside the frame, from what I can see, are level with the top of the frame, so that's only an improvement of about 3 inches over what I am using now.

Or am I mistaken? Can the powerbar or anything similar give me something to hang from that is taller than the door - say, about 6 inches higher than the door frame?

rubadub

LionelNashe wrote: »

Can the powerbar or anything similar give me something to hang from that is taller than the door - say, about 6 inches higher than the door frame?

I haven't seen one which can, and I have seen a fair few designs. I would highly recommend getting or making gymnastic rings. If you have a hole in your attic all you need is some wood to mount them, they can be used for dips and loads of other things too.



At the bottom of this thread I give a ideas on how to make normal chinup bars using the attic hole too.

LionelNashe

No attic, unfortunately, but I did a bit of googling and it seems that the wooden studs in partition walls are strong enough to hang hammocks. I have a partition wall and a concrete wall facing each other across a narrow hallway so I now have the bar fitted between these two walls.

If my wall falls down, I'll post a picture.

rubadub

LionelNashe wrote: »

I have a partition wall and a concrete wall facing each other across a narrow hallway so I now have the bar fitted between these two walls.

If my wall falls down, I'll post a picture.

I have something similar, in my bedroom 2 walls are close and both are just crappy partition, mine has held me 80-85kg +40kg on a dip belt plenty of times, think 85+55kg is the most it has had to hold.