Product Description

Develop and strengthen your shoulders, back, and arms with this high-grade training tool featuring 10 pro-grade handles with multiple grip positions. (Used with P90X)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1500 in Sports & Outdoors
• Brand: Beachbody
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x 3.00" w x 43.00" l, 11.00 pounds

Features

• Sturdy chin-up bar with heavy-gauge steel frame
• Patented design offers 12 grip positions for diverse workouts
• Strengthens and develops shoulders, arms, back, abs, and more
• Professional-grade, foam-covered handles are easy on the hands
• Supports up to 300 pounds; fits doorways up to 32 inches wide

Amazon.com Product Description
Built for durability and comfort, the P90X chin-up bar is the ultimate fitness training tool for strengthening and developing your shoulders, back, arms, abs, and more. The P90X--which mounts easily to any doorframe to become your own personal gym--features a patented design with 12 grip positions.

The P90X chin-up bar includes 12 different grip positions.

As a result, you can build multiple muscle groups with a variety of exercises, with the wide-grip positions challenging your upper lats, biceps, and forearm muscles (among many), and the narrow-grip positions putting more emphasis on your lower lats.

The P90X bar is also comfortable on the hands thanks to the professional-grade, foam-covered handles, which won't cramp your hands as quickly as steel handles. And once you're done with your workout, it takes just a few minutes to safely remove the P90X and store it under a bed or in a closet. There's no better way to take your upper-body workout to the next level. Made of heavy-gauge steel that holds up to 300 pounds, the P90X fits doorways up to 32 inches wide and requires a sturdy doorframe with trim. The doorway should be a minimum of 5 inches wide and a maximum of 6.5 inches.

Customer Reviews

Portable for a standard door.
I bought this because I lived in an apartment. I did NOT use anything other than the bar to work out with; in other words, I did NOT use the extra brackets. It is my opinion that you don't "have" to use them, but they are there for safety/legal reasons. If you have controlled and thoughtful motion, the way it sits on the door frame and pushes on the sides makes it sturdy enough. However, to remove the bar, you lift it up (as seen on TV). If you were not paying attention during a workout, I can see where the lawyers are afraid you might dislodge it... so therefore, the extra security of the brackets. Your choice.

Beware, however, that the bar fits only standard doors. I've since moved into a townhouse with smaller spaces, and if there isn't room ABOVE the door, it won't work (the ceiling is flush with the door frame in the areas I have doors). Also, your door can't be WIDER than the bar (as in two double doors that open), because it needs the sides of the door frame to push against.

If you have normal sized doors, this is the one for you. The brackets? You can probably do without, but in case a lawyer is reading this... I'll say that you should use the brackets....

A Great Product With 1 Caveat
I assumed, incorrectly, that because this looked like the type of pull-up bar that mounts on a door without screws that it was. It isn't. You have to screw two clamps in with four screws. That's my fault for making a wrong assumption.

However, I'd like to be able to not put holes over my doors, and move the bar from doorway to doorway. So that's a design drawback from my perspective.

That being said, the bar is very nice and very sturdy. Its configuration allows for a number of hand positions. It states very clearly not to use the device for inversion.

Why buy this?
I recently purchased the p90x system so i was looking for a good chin up bar to go with it, i looked around and found the identical bar at 39.95. If you're looking for a good pull-up bar that doesn't require mounting hardware at a cheaper price, look at the iron gym extreme.