Perfect Pull-Up Bar Review (Door Frame Design) - Perfect For Inverted Rows

[Jetigen]

At the moment I am working out at home, apartment to be exact, and doing pull-ups, dips and push-ups on a daily basis. The only thing I was really missing for upper body workouts were inverted rows. I was in Walmart a couple of days ago and saw this Perfect brand pull-up bar on the shelves in their Sports section. It was what I needed for doing inverted rows. So, I grabbed it for $20. No kidding it's that cheap.

For starters, here is a video review I found on YouTube:




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The Perfect pull-up bar will fit door frames 27"-36" wide (68cm-90cm). You will need a drill with 5/32" (4mm) drill bit to drill 8 pilot holes. If you don't do that, you are running the risk of splitting your door frame. It comes with a template for drilling holes.

By design the bar swings down allowing me to do inverted rows. As a pull-up bar it sits higher that conventional door frame pull-up bars. Which is a bonus. See pictures below.

Obviously you can't do neutral pull-ups on it. For that I am still using my old beat-up Gold's Gym pull-up bar.

It comes with a nice pair of grip pads which I liked. Overall I highly recommend this bar for budget conscious people training at home. Being able to do inverted rows is a HUGE plus. I also noticed that little kids love playing and hanging on it. Let them practice doing pull-ups.

[Jetigen]

Few more pictures:

[Jetigen]

In case you are wondering what inverted rows are, please watch the videos below. They are especially beneficial for people with lower back pain who can't do regular barbell rows and T-bar rows. There is zero load on lower back. By the way, they are not as easy to do as it may seem. I use my portable dip station to raise my legs and make my body parallel to the floor when doing inverted rows.

[Northernmoris]

I would think rings would be more useful. Also much better quality.

[urbanlifter]

Nice review. Inverted rows are easily done inside the rack, would be a nice alternative when coupled with a weighted vest. As for doorway chin up bars, my favorite is still the GoFit Elevated Chin Bar. Variety of grips, hooks for ab straps, relatively solid weight capacity, and you are able to adjust how high above the door frame.

[Jetigen]

I've tried gymnastic rings with the above Gold's Gym pull-up bar. It was more of a hassle to put them on, then take them off, while dealing with straps. Not a good combination if you are training in a cramped-up apartment. The Perfect pull-up bar is quick to deploy for inverted rows and no clutter to deal with.

Back in my old place, I was using the Backbull inside my Cybex squat rack for doing inverted rows. By the way, thanks to the door frame pull-up bars I am now addicted to doing pull-ups.

If anyone is interested in my workout, let me know. Especially those with lower back injury.

[Bench905]

I would think rings would be more useful. Also much better quality.

It was more of a hassle to put them on, then take them off, while dealing with straps.

I use rings for inverted rows - they're mounted to my power rack. I never take them off. If I'm squatting or OHP, I just hook them around the front or rear post of the rack. For bench, the rings don't get in the way at all.

But I can understand how it would annoy people to have to move the rings when they want to squat/ohp/pullup.

[kdumph]

I like the design of this thing for pull-ups, but my next best thought was man I could hang rings from this thing and do dips as well You mentioned that they are a pain to set up and I would agree with you that most straps and rings are when placing over a doorway. If you buy rings that utilize carabiner type adjustments though its extremely easy to toss the carabiners on, place on the other side of the door, close door, and exercise away. The down fall of a ring set up like this is you can't do pull-ups or dips with them. If you had this cool little device though, problem solved!

[Jetigen]

Little update: This pull-up bar is a staple of my home workouts now. One problem I've encountered is constant banging against the door frame when doing inverted rows. The bar naturally swings and hits the protruding midsection of the door frame. To protect the wood, I taped strips of white wrapping foam. It fixed the problem. You might want to do the same if using this product.

[Jetigen]

Combination of this pull-up bar in the lowered position with the Stamina handles for doing body-weight triceps extensions makes the exercise twice harder. It's a hybrid of ab wheel roll-outs and body-weight triceps extensions. Doing this exercise in full range of motion in this particular set-up is extremely taxing on upper body and especially the core. I tried it out of curiosity and absolutely blown away. It takes the fixed position out and makes you mostly rely on your upper-body muscles for stability.

I decided to buy the second Perfect pull-up bar as a back-up just in case the company stops selling this model.

Body-weight triceps extensions:


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