Sunny Health & Fitness Doorway Chin Up Bar - NO. 025

This is a very good chin-up bar that has been used daily and is still holding up to rigorous workouts like p90x. Installation: Make sure you use a pre-drill for the easiest and fastest installation (these screws are prone to stripping). Use the end caps as a guide for where the holes should be. The bar expands and contracts when you twist it, just a few twists on each side and the bar will extend out into the wall cups that you just attached. That's it! Durability: I use this chin-up bar for a few hours each week during my workout. The bar has not started to bend, and it still holds my weight and feels just as secure as the first time I installed it. The hand grips have also held up surprisingly very well. I know on my Iron Gym the grips were the first thing to rip and tear. The hand grips on this bar still have no visible tearing after months of use. The door frame it is installed in doesn't show any signs of stress. Limitations: The hand grips are not adjustable which makes doing different types of pull-ups difficult (such as wide pull ups or close-grip) . The outside part of the bar, closest to the wall, is a little thin to comfortably grip. I would recommend lifting gloves to get a better grip on the metal part of the bar if you need to. Versatile: Makes for a good place to hang your clothes when you're not working out. Comparison: I've used the Iron Gym exclusively before I moved to an older home with a lot of molding around the doors. This bar will fit any door frame that is the correct width which is great for unconventional door frames. This bar feels more secure since it is screwed in, I feel like I have more control doing a chin-up than on an iron gym. The iron gym had a tendency to cause swaying, or the bar would start to rock on the door frame with the momentum.

Easy to install. Sturdy. Well made! Glad I bought it!

Great pull up bar. PROS: The bar is designed well, it is relatively easy to install, it is sturdy, it fits multiple door widths, and it is only $14!\ CONS: Some people mention the "spinning" issue of the bar. It is true that this bar is composed of 3 bars, and if you do not have it positioned properly, it will spin, which will make certain pullups less comfortable. However, if you just take the bar, turn the bar 180 degrees, and put it in, the problem is essentially gone. So, I do not see this as a downside. There are machines at my gym that have bigger problems than this. Second, if you have an old or improperly installed door, yes, the corners will likely start to split. Not much, but a few millimeters. It will probably not be noticeable if you take the bar off (e.g. if you are renting and you move). So this was not a big problem for me. Next, the had grips will eventually start to tear. This is nice at first because you can move them (in the "new" state, they cannot be moved, which is a downside for me); however, they will eventually be torn off. This will take many years though. The bar will also start to bend, over the course of ~4 years with consistent use. BOTTOM LINE: Overall, this is a great pull up bar that does what it is supposed to do, lasts for many years (my previous one lasted 4 years! This is my second time purchasing it), and is relatively inexpensive. I have been doing the P90X routine with this bar from 2011 to 2015, so I can tell you that I have used this bar more than almost anyone else on Amazon. The bar has been great. I have a few minor concerns per above, and if some of them could be addressed (e.g. the hand grips, the spinning), I would give it 5 stars.

Let me tell you I didn't think it would work so well I weight 280lbs and I was scared but it is so secure I am impressed.

So, I started off by reading reviews here, and determined there was too wide of a spread, some people love it, some hate it. So I bought it to install it for my gymnast daughter. First off, it comes with screws in the middle. Do NOT remove those, or you're going to have a hard time getting those back in, as another reviewer wrote: there is nowhere obvious on the inside of the bar to fasten them. Second problem, the little black caps on the ends of the inner bars are not fastened well, so they fall off all the time. Lastly, the foam grips slide on the bar so that it is utterly unusable. Now, if you already bought the bar (DON'T), and you're too lazy to pack it back in the box to return it, here's how to fix it: 1. if you made the mistake of removing the center screws, or were unlucky enough to receive it in the package like this, you can put it back in by screwing the ends until you see the black plastic thing with grooves in it move by the hole. there are grooves on the left and the right of the 'sweet spot' into which the screws will easily screw back in by hand. Once you do this, the bar will stop sliding left to right, AND it will stop spinning endlessly when you tighten it. These are both things I see people complain about here, and refastening the center screws fixes them both. 2. The grips still move, even though you've fixed the spinning bar problem, and will destroy your wrists if you use it like this. Gorilla glue them to the bar, or duct-tape the crap out of them. Really, you might as well cut them off and refasten them to do this, as the duct tape won't be pretty, even if it works. If you want the bar to be comfortable, though, cutting off the grips and gluing them back on would be your best option. 3. those black caps that keep falling off: glue them or duct tape them, or ignore them. if you fixed the sliding bar, these will be much less of a problem.

I originally bought a pull up station but it took up too much room, this was a lot more affordable and I haven’t had any issues with it, you will need to periodically (monthly) retighten the bar because frequent use can loosen it, but a simple twist does the job. I like that it’s not purely tension based though and comes with brackets to screw into the wall. It was easy to hang up, it’s comfy to use, easy to take down if you need too, I just leave it up though. And easily holds 160lbs or more

Works as expected - as long as you use it right and check tightness regularly. We had it lower for the use of younger kids, so not the standard situation. Apparently my kids swung on it too much which loosened it little by little until one day my daughter used it, crashed to the floor, and it fell on her head leaving a nasty mark and goose egg that took days to heal. It could have been worse. We should have checked the tightness I guess - but it had worked well as a pull up bar and we didn’t think that would be an issue when we relocated it to the kid space. Be careful!

Good quality and resistant

The weight distribution is way better than most of these thanks to the brackets and it remains sturdily in place once extended. Great piece of equipment

Am very very happy with my purchase. Delivery was very prompt and installation was not difficult. I have been using it regularly since delivery and would recommend the product.

Very good and strong product. Only con i feel is that instructions to install are not clear. Need to twist the handle from middle to adjust its grip on sides if door

Fitted easily. Strong grip

Doesnt budge no screws needed and a 85kg person had tried and it still did not even bend slightly