In an effort to outfit your home with proper workout equipment, you may have considered a pull up bar. There are a few different choices including the high quality P90X chin up bar we carry here as well as tension mounted pull up bars and free standing pull up stations. How you choose which one is best for you should be done through thorough research. Not all home pull up bars are created equally and although we are slightly biased, we truly think ours is the best.

Free standing chin up stations are great home gym tools. However, if I had room for a free standing tower, I would also want a treadmill, weight machine, and fancy ab bench. Catch my drift? Towers take up a ton of room! Considering you are just looking for something to get your pull ups done on it hardly makes sense to buy a large bulky piece of equipment unless you are living like Daddy Warbucks.

Tension mounted pull up bars seem to be another common option. People like these because they seem easy enough to put up and they are typically pretty cheap. The thing is, with home pull up bars, you get what you pay for. You want something that is going to withstand your body weight repeatedly, day after day. A glorified tension rod simply doesn’t get my vote.

Tension mounted pull up bars are known to apply so much pressure to the door frame that they actually crack the wood. While this might not be a problem if you live in a castle and your door frames are stone, the majority of us might take issue with splitting our wood door frames.

Take a look around on the internet and see how many people complain that their tension bar simply let them down. Literally. A tension mounted pull up bar simply doesn’t seem to be as safe as one that is mounted with good old fashioned hardware. The last thing you want when trying to get fit is an injury to sideline your workouts.

In your search for a home pull up bar, do your own research. You will find that many people determine a tension mounted pull up bar to be a waste of time. Instead they wish they would have gone with a higher quality piece of equipment like the P90X chin up bar here at ExtremeBody Workout.