My Portable Pull-up Bar – My 5-Minute Push-Pull Workout

This is a very good piece of equipment, and of decent quality. We beat the heck out of it, too. We primarily use this as a part of a hing-impact fitness boot camp circuit. As such, it gets constant use, and from women who are just at 100 lbs to men who are mid to high 200's. It stores nicely and is easy to set up. We use it on top of fitness mats and it is pretty steady. Though I haven't tried it, I would be curious to see how it performs as far as not sliding around on a hard floor. Overall, a very good investment. While it hasn't occurred with us, I can see how the latches might wear over time as was stated in some of the other reviews, but we have not experienced this to this point. We also like the fact that the hand grips can be adjusted to allow for different builds.The max weight is stated as 300 lbs, but we've had a person a tad north of 300 using it and it didn't budge. The only hiccup we had was that one of the plastic feet popped out one day when it was being put away, but we popped it back in and kept moving.Pros:Solidly made and sturdyEasy to put away and set upCons:Would be nice to have rubber feet for use on hard floors

Love the product! So I read some of the reviews and was unsure what I was going to get at first but glad I made the purchase. First off, delivery was quick as I got the order within 3 days of ordering it when it stated it would take around 18 days at first. It was well packaged and easy to assemble. Instructions were included and the product was clean and had a nice finish to it. Was strongly looking for something to do inverted rows without having to go to a public park or something. Definitely portable and lightweight to carry, making storage easy. Its a pretty good height as it comes upto hip level leaving enough room to do the exercise properly. The material used to grip the bar is nice, similar to gym grip equipment. Now hopefully this helps me do pull ups soon!

Great buy and easy portability. Setup in 5min and stores easily if need. It has a small footprint so I just leave mine out with a yoga mat underneath in the corner of my room. This is the true “no excuse” workout that you can just jump on if even if only for a few min. so easy, no set up, and frankly, the only other equipment I need besides my full-body extension pull-up bar. You don’t really even need to change into workout clothes if you are just walking in the door from work or school.A minor annoyance with this is the label on the bar. The “MyPullupBar” label (doesn’t say “Workhorse” on mine) has the assembler’s two black fingerprints underneath the clear tape, one on each end, showing against the white bar. So whoever manufactured/assembled this product did a sloppy job on that / low attention to detail. Visible at every workout! So they should apply clean labels with better quality control. Instruction sheet was also torn in one corner but also minor. You almost had a perfect product as it came well packaged, pieces individually wrapped, easy bolts and even came with a printed easy workout plan.

This is an excellent inverted pull-up bar. It's high enough that you can get a full arm extension. It's sturdy, easy to fold, and well-designed. I use mine on a rug-covered floor and have never had any problems with stability or slipping. If you get to the point where doing three sets of 50 inverted pull-ups on this bar is too easy (and you will already be quite strong at this point), you can try elevating your legs by resting on a chair to increase the weight load.It's maybe a little pricey for what it is, but it is so solid and well-designed I expect it to last me for my lifetime. So from that perspective it is probably quite cheap for the use you can get out of it.I don't use the pushup bars and didn't even bother to attach them (I just do regular pushups), so I have no comments about that part of the equipment.

If you want to do inverted pull-ups and your desk isn't cutting it, there's not many other solutions on the market. Which is good for this brand, because if there were other options, you'd almost definitely be buying one of those. Right off the bat, these guys need to work on basic presentation - mine arrived filthy, covered in orange streaking that wouldn't fully clean off, and paint flaking off one of the corners. There's also an ugly "MyWorkhorse" sticker with the label on it across the bar - partially peeled off and covered in dirt - that thankfully was easily removable. Oh, and no instruction manual. It's easy enough to figure out, but if you're expecting a little help getting started out of the box, you're out of luck. The embarrassingly outdated myworkhorse.com website does link to some exercises for newbies if you can dig through the mountain of cheesy promotional material that make this seem like a failed As Seen on TV fad.For inverted pull-ups, this thing does the job. It's easy to set up and use and yes, a heck of a lot easier on your hands then a desk. It took about ten minutes to set up - five of which were fumbling around a bit due to the lack of manual (all you need to know is that the longer screws go in the bottom) - and then you're good to go. As far as the advertised portability is concerned, to fold it back up you need to unscrew a couple of bolts on either side, and it's not exactly fast and easy to do. Even flipping it back into place was annoying, with the plastic head of the screw popping off and having to hammer it back in while trying to get it to properly lock. If you plan on keeping this thing hidden away in a closet and only taking it out to work out, chances are it's going to stay in the closet after dealing with it a few times.As others have mentioned, the padding is awful - you'll most likely want to replace it with something better, as this bar is nowhere near as comfortable to use as a door-mounted bar. It was also unevenly distributed on the push-up elevator bars that attach to the bottom. And speaking of those bars...On my set, both of these bars were bent slightly differently after being attached, and nothing I could do could make them perfectly straight. They're still functional (albeit painful on your hands with the weak padding), and nobody buys a piece of exercise equipment as a fashion statement, but they make a pretty ugly piece of equipment even uglier and cheap-looking. They also easily get knocked askew thanks to some slight rotational "wobble" by design on the main legs that attach to the pull-up bar (don't worry - it's perfectly safe and stable when doing pull-ups when set in place). The padding is uneven too. Basically everything about them screams "we need to add forced value to this metal bar."And that brings us to value. I bought this because I needed an inverted pull-up bar, and it delivers what it promises. The bar itself feels sturdy and should last a while. It's absolutely not worth a hundred bones as far as the overall quality is concerned, but you're not going to find many other options (dip stations may suffice for some exercises, but they're not the same, and although wall-mounted pull-up bars are superior, you'll have to get creative or have a floorspace that will allow you to mount them lower to the floor). Keep expectations in check in comparison to other workout equipment you've purchased (which tends to arrive clean, documented, and with materials that are properly shaped) - if all you want is an inverted pull-up bar that's relatively easy to set up, this is it.