So this just happened! Facebook marketplace strikes again. Someone was cleaning out their garage and had two pull-up bars up for sale… for not much money at all, just $10. So naturally i got both of them, put one in my door, and one in a coworkers door.

I have a bad shoulder and i do a lot of pull-ups to make sure my back muscles are strong to keep that shoulder in line, per my Dr.’s orders. Pull-ups are a great exercise, but a lot of people’s nemesis. Its not easy to pick up your body weight with just your arms if you don’t do it all the time. So do it a lot, by way of having a pull-up bar readily available. A lot of trainers like to encourage the use of those gigantic rubber bands to build pull up strength. That’s not a bad idea, i prefer negatives, something an old school trainer made me do, and i saw results quickly. The biggest thing is just trying regularly!

The best part of these pull up bars is that every time someone comes to an equipped office to talk about boring specs for electronics, their hands end up on the pull up bar. Next thing you know they are hanging from it. Its great… coworkers that have been telling me they can’t do pull-ups and were not confident enough to try at the gym are already getting close to doing real pull-ups, unassisted. Its a great example of integrating little bits of motion into your day, that does not really disrupt it, and fitness results just kind of happen!

The only down side we have seen is that one set of the pull up bars has hard rubber bumpers for where it touches the door frame… and it marred the paint a little. If you go shopping for your own bar, find one with soft bumpers where it touches the door.

I am very pleased with the attention the $10 pull-up bars are getting and the very fast progress i am seeing from coworkers.