Creative Fitness Door Gym
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Equipment Details
Manufacturer: Creative FitnessBrand: Creative Fitness
Release Date: 2007-09-12
Model: DG
Color: black & red
Product features:
- Pull-up/chin-up bar for tool-free doorway installation
- Fits easily in 24- to 32-inch doorways (extensions available)
- Ideal for pull-ups, push-ups, chin-ups, crunches, and more
- Requires trim up to 3.5 inches wide around door
- Breaks down and stores in case for easy travel
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Sports reviews of Creative Fitness Door Gym
Customer Review: Excellent and Simple Solution for Pullups
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
I've been on the fence wanting to get a pullup bar for about 2 years now, but the door-way mounted ones seemed like a big step (to drill into a door way, making the door effectively unusable).
I was looking at a real pullup cage for a bit, but the floor space needed for that was a non-starter for me in my house. I looked at the "Perfect Pullup" quite a bit as well, just to see that almost every reviewed cited the following problems:
* Cheap plastic parts, especially the pieces that should have been metal
* Cheap mounting hardware that most people replaced with their own stuff from Home Depot.
I was really surprised how many people complained about the second one.
I finally found this and given the price and rating I figured "what the heck, let's get it and see how it works".
The box showed up, it was in like 4 pieces... I pushed them together, put in the 4 bolts, walked over to the door and "hung" it... and did some pullups.
I could not believe how ridiculously easy that was given how complex some of these other door-pullup installations are. The "swing" design of this redirects all the pressure from you to that front padded bar that pushes horizontally into the door frame, so you don't have to worry about "ripping" the trim off the door.
I weigh about 225 lbs (no, I can't do that many pullups either ;) and I didn't even hear a creek out of my door when I do pullups, it's really an awesomely simple design.
Also when you want to use the door, just push up on the bar to get the red-bar across the back to lift away from the trim, twist, and take it out of the door frame. It's honestly like a closet hanger or something.
The *one* suggestion I might make though, is that the default instructions on how to put the bar together has you mount the long cross-bar (that you grab to do pullups AND that rests against the door frame) *under* (on the bottom side of) the "J" shaped pieces. This means that as you do pullups, the bolts themselves are what are holding you up off the ground.
I noticed another reviewer mentioned this, so I tried it... here is my tip to you:
1. Look at the picture on Amazon of this pullup bar
2. See that long bar that runs across the bottom? See how it's mounted under the "J" shaped bars?
3. Unbolt the bolts and put the long bar *ontop* of the "J" shaped bars instead, and re-bolt them.
That way when you are doing pullups, the pressure is distributed across the J bars and not exclusively held up by the bolts.
I would totally recommend this to anyone else wanting to get into pullups. This also doubles as a push-up bar sort of like the "Perfect Pushup" devices in that it keeps you elevated off the ground so you can get a deeper push up... I actually have the Perfect Pushups so I don't use that feature, but it's a nice touch.
Overall just a really smartly designed and simple piece of equipment.
Description of Creative Fitness Door Gym
The Door Gym stands head and shoulders above the competition. This versatile device can be set up in seconds on almost any door frame and lets you work out in the convenience of your own home or office. It latches on without screws, bolts or fasteners, so you won't leave holes in your door trim. A cantilever design uses your own body weight (up to 300 lbs.) to keep it in place. Door Gym is more than a simple pull-up, chin-up bar. It also has two protruding close-grip handles that let you work out with your palms facing each other, a good position for isolating the muscles in the center of your back that control posture. In addition, you can use Door Gym on the ground as a push-up bar and a sit-up spotter.Pull-Up Bars
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