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0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Dangerous and Inefficient Mar 02, 2010
I bought this chin-up bar for my college dorm room, trying to buff up a little. The first time I tried it, it fell, as did I. I landed on my upper back and head, blacking out for just under a minute. Luckily, I had a friend in the room who woke me up. Upon waking I had trouble breathing for another minute or so. My friend managed to get air into my lungs and I went to hospital the next day for x-rays. I spent two weeks in and out of hospitals and specialist's offices. Please do not buy this product. It can cause severe damage and internal bleeding due to the fact that it lacks any real measure of sturdiness.
Good pull-up bar Jan 18, 2010
This is a quality pull-up (or if you're into less intensity workouts chin-up) bar. The main annoyance is adjusting the hand pads--it's doable but quite difficult--and you probably won't want the one on the non extendable side so close to the door side. Installation of the nubs to hold it in the doorway is not as bad.
Anyway once the prepretory work is done it's a quite good piece of equipment. I grab the pads for narrow stanced pull-ups, while I hold on to the bar outside the pads for the wide stance. The latter can be difficult to hold onto, but I'm definetly not going to shift the pads back and fourth just to do different kinds of pull-ups. I can now do as many as 17 pull-ups without stopping, five more than I could when I first bought the bar.
 OK, But Bar Turns During Use Jan 04, 2010
This bar would be great if not for one serious design issue: It turns when you're using it. It installs by screwing/unscrewing the outer and inner bar sections, with the idea being, I suppose, that once it's snugly in the door frame it won't turn any more. it will continue turning no matter what, and in fact if you keep unscrewing it (making the bar wider) the sides of the doorframe can be literally be pried apart! Even if the frame doesn't budge, the bar will still rotate because the round ends fit into round support caps, which allow the bar to turn freely with any amount of force. There's no way to lock the bar from turning, regardless of which way you hold it during exercise. It's always either tightening, loosening, or turning in place. Despite otherwise solid construction and comfortable grip, I can only give it 2 stars.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Also works for metal frame doors Oct 25, 2009
I purchased this bar to use as part of the P90X workout. I didn't realize that it was made to be screwed into a wood framed door. I live in an apartment complex with metal framed doors. However, because of the rubber ends on the bar I simply put up the bar without screwing in the supports to the door. I am 120lbs and it has held just fine thus far :) Additionally, the grips on the bar were too far apart and I was able to easily move one of the grips so that the distance between them was right for me. This is a great product at a great price!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 It'll work but the screws included are trash Sep 22, 2009
I just finished installing this bar. Since it seems to fulfill its basic function, this is more of a warning to "buy it, but" rather than a "don't buy it."
I recommend to anyone who buys this bar that they not use the screws included with it to install the mounting brackets. I was being pretty careful but still managed to strip two of the screws and twist the heads off of two others. They're very cheaply made.
You'd figure Valeo would spend the extra 40 cents per unit and give you quality screws, huh? Well, not if they'd have to pass those 40 cents on to cheapskates like me who buy the cheapest thing they can find.
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