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Warning: Door Damage!
I’m a personal trainer; and always looking for new innovative equipment to add to my arsenal. I bought these for my personal use at home since the door I wanted to mount these over is a double door and too wide for the traditional full bar door frame mounted pull-up bar.
I’ve owned two other different full bar brands when using them on standard doors. One was $30 and the other was $50. They caused some damage (minimal where the foam pads on the end rest on the sides of the door frame.) Being at the low cost end I figured quality would be so.
I have 2 ceiling joist x-mounts that I have my gym rings and TRX and was looking for a pull-up bar attachment that would connect but prevent swinging. After not being able to find a solution I bought these.
I had them over my double closet door set up instructed per the manual. After a couple days and 300 pull-ups there’s considerable damage. The rubber has scraped the paint on the wall over the frame and when doing supinated grip pull ups or wide mounted grip when you release the bars tend to rotate/spring up and ding the frame. Since there’s an Allen key hole on the bolt I assumed you could tighten the handle in a fixed position but it did not come with an Allen wrench.
Also, they’re not width adjusting friendly. If you want to change the width I’d recommend taking them completely off then out back on in the spot you want. If you pull them open and try to move them over if they touch the wall at all they scrape the paint.
For $110 I expected a little better quality/usability. I believe these have potential for an updated model but, I would not recommend these yet. Also, put them on a door you won’t have people seeing. Haven’t even attempted to put hanging ab straps or suspension straps with them.
Note: I’m 168lbs
August 2019 · Sports and Outdoors · verified purchase