This sturdy pull-up bar has thick, ultra-accommodating grips and can adjust for various doorway sizes, but it takes up more space than most. We looked for bars with sturdy parts, easy instructions, and padding to reduce potential door damage.
The horizontal crossbar can be adjusted from 24 to 36 inches wide, making it installable in many doorways. The Garren Fitness Maximiza is a straight, simple bar with no protruding handles that fits in a doorframe, as opposed to going over the top of a door. Both ends can be extended out to fit to inch widths, and the bar is covered with a soft and comfortable hand grip.
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You can still do push-ups, perform chin-ups, and hang from the bar like you would on a top-of-the-door model, but you will have less height to do so, making it a not-so-great choice for people with taller frames unless you have high doors. To find the best pull-up bars, we interviewed a personal trainer and a sports science professor and coach, read countless customer reviews, and assessed long-term testing notes from Wirecutter staff. Seth Berkman is a staff writer covering fitness for Wirecutter.
Pull-ups are an effective way to increase strength and coordination across multiple joints and muscle groups. Pulling, as a movement pattern in an exercise context, is essential for targeting the posterior muscles of the back and shoulders and is a more challenging movement pattern to create in a bodyweight training program than its front-of-body partner, pushing.
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A door-mounted pull-up bar is a relatively inexpensive piece of equipment that makes pull-up exercises accessible for many at home. Before buying a pull-up bar, you need to measure the height of your doors compared to your height and arm reach, said Joseph Marsit, a teaching professor and program director at the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University.
