When I started P90X for the first time, I went out looking for a pull up bar. I was living in a temporary house for only a few months so I decided to not go with a pull up bar you screw into the frame. So what did I do? I did what any interneteer (new word?) would do. I Googled it. I found some relatively inexpensive pull up bars you can just hook on your door frame. They are very easy to put up and take down; I just didn’t know which one I wanted since there were so many of them.
I decided to go with Creative Fitness Home Gym from Amazon. At first I was some what happy with it. With that bar, it is tough to do any “wide grip” pull-ups, which is part of 2 work outs in the first phase of P90X. The bar doesn’t have any gripping material past shoulder width so when trying to do the wide grip while holding onto the metal bar and sweating your ass off, your hands start to slip off causing you to stop short of your max. Other than that, it was light, easy to take down and put up, and could hold my weight. The more I kept doing on P90X, the more I wanted the official P90X pull up bar.
I went searching for the P90X bar but I knew it was around $100 when I saw it the first time. I was right! Amazon has the Official P90X Pull Up Bar for $99!! I then looked at their used bars and saw that it would come out to be around $70-75 with the shipping costs. I figured there had to be a better deal out there, so where would any frequent internet surfer head to next? EBAY! They too, had it for around $70. I just so happen to run into another site through Ebay, which is where I bought it but I’d like to say that it’s even cheaper at the official P90X website (which I was shocked to see!). I ran into this site called Extremely-Fit where I was able to get it for ~$55! PLUS! It was even shipped from the BeachBody warehouse.
It took 5 days to get to me as promised. Make sure you have someone around to help you assemble it though. That’s my only complaint about it. I was able to put together the Creative Fitness bar fairly quickly by myself but when I tried to put the P90X bar together, I had to have someone hold the bars and hold the screws in place while I tightened the bolts. Once it was all together, I put it up on my door frame and tried it out. It was much sturdier, much more grips, and a little heavier but still very easy to put up and take down. I did a few quick pull ups on it and couldn’t wait to start up with P90X again.
Yesterday was my first “Chest and Back” workout since I got the bar and I loved it! I’m sore today because I got to use muscles the other bar couldn’t let me use. There are 5 pairs of grips which allow you to use more muscles than the typical cheap bars that you put in your door way or even like the cheap Creative Fitness one I first bought. I’d highly recommend getting one even if it may be a few dollars more than any others but with going through Extremely-Fit.com, I think you won’t be able to find a better deal for a brand new P90X bar and it’s a great investment for your health.
