GoFit Chin Up Bar :: Education by Design Store

Editorial Review
The GoFit Chin Up Bar is a great addition to your at home training program. Not only is the bar perfect for chin-ups, it can also be used as a foot anchor for sit-ups and crunches. The GoFit Chin-Up bar will adjust to fit most standard width doorframes. Before using always make sure that the brackets are properly mounted and the bar is securely adjusted to fit mounting brackets. DO NOT use bar without properly mounted brackets. The GoFit Chin Up Bar comes with one heavy duty adjustable chin up bar and mounting hardware. Mounting hardware will include 2 silver weight bearing brackets for mounting high in you door and 2 black or red plastic non-weight bearing stoppers for mounting the bar low in the doorway for doing sit-ups. Suggested weight bearing limit is 300 lbs. when properly mounted. DO NOT mount in doorway wider than 34". Black foam rubber grips on the bar are not adjustable. DISCLAIMER: GoFit Chin UP Bar has been designed to fit residential doorways 24" to 32" and support up to 300lbs. This product has been manufactured and tested to decrease risks of injury. However, risks of injury exist in the use of this product. Therefore, the user assumes all risks of injury in the use of this product. Consult your physician before starting any exercise program. If you experience any discomfort while using this product, discontinue use and consult your physician immediately!
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Customer Reviews

Nice bar; awkward installation.

2008-05-24
This bar works exactly as you'd want it to. It's fairly easy to install, but there's weird metal tabs on the brackets whose function isn't entirely clear. Are they supposed to help hold the bar in place? In any event, it's well worth the money and time to install in your bedroom door, especially if you're like me and hate going to gyms. My guns are huge.

Not what I Ordered

2008-05-20
The model pictured here looks nice, but the model I received has very annoying square shaped mounts that will not fit most door-frames. It's also very hard to get the bar in and out of the mounts. Does not work anywhere near as easily as the model picured here with the round mounts. Hope I'm the only one that had the "switched-out" product.

Useless

2008-05-09
In college I had a chin-up bar that you twisted to tighten into a doorframe and I thought that's what this was as well. Turns out you need a drill (which I don't have) and you have to drill into your doorframe, which I can't do since I live in an apartment. What an absolute waste of money. If you live in a home and you own a drill, buy it, for the rest of us it's completely useless.

Service a MainStreetThings Priority

2008-04-20
GoFit Chin-Up Bar I am rarely motivated to take the time to write reviews. It usually requires either a really terrible or really terrific experience to inpire me. In this case, I am pleased to say it was a terrific experience which has so moved me to do so. Won't go into all the gory details, just suffice it to say that if there was ever any doubt that a particular express shipper--who shall remain unnamed--could find a way to bend a steel bar in a most extraordinary way then this particular shipper's employees did it. What truly BENT me, however,was the fact they then proceeded to slap the GoFIt Chin Up Bar they had admittedly and amazingly damaged into another box and sent on to me rather than returning it to MainStreetThings. However, I am very pleased to say that it took no more than a quick email to Ron at MainStreet and within a matter of a couple of days I had a replacement--AT NO ADDITIONAL COST!! AND, I didn't have to hassle with sending the damaged one back either!!! Very rarely do I experience such quality customer service--and when I do, it is certainly worth five stars in my book. Only wish more vendors would take a leaf out of this one's book.

Awesome Product

2008-04-11
I just purchased this bar for about $26 with shippin and handling. This bar is awesome. I didnt have any problems with the screws or nothing in fact they worked perfect for me. The wrong item is pictured. which believe it or not im very happy thats what it was. At first i was lyk "what the heck" but the new one has thicker mounts and instead of 3 screw holes and thin metal around is I got 5 screw holes and 4 very sturdy brackets. (2 for pull ups 2 for situps and pushups). This is a quality product and for the price you cannot beat it. Dont stutter on buying this its a good one.

Not what's pictured.

2008-07-24
Do not order this item, it's not the one in the picture. Others have already pointed out that now it comes with odd square brackets that do not properly fit door frames. After my first mounting, the bar was a nightmare to get in and out, as well as chewed up the back side of my door!

I unmounted the brackets, and used a Dremel to cut away the pointless side spin pieces. I do not know why they are there? The bar is now much simpler to get in and out and you can close the door with out it being scraped up badly.

I do not recommend this product. It can be made usable, but it should come usable.

Product Longer Than Advertised

2008-06-28
The product description advertises that this bar can accommodate door frames measuring 24" to 32" wide, however the product itself actually measures just shy of 25" when completely compacted. If you have a standard 24" wide bathroom door, this product will be of no use to you.

Stable bar, but have some decent tools

2008-06-17
This bar requires 5 medium-sized wood screws on either side. As a result, it's very stable, but the installation would be a bit taxing if you only had hand tools.

great item

2008-06-11
This pull up bar arrived quickly and installed easily. My son put it in the doorway of his bedroom and uses it all the time. It is out of the way but conveniently close. It was a good buy.

get this bar

2008-06-09
I put this up on my doorway and it's great. You do have to use screws (they have space for about 5 on each side) but you can cover/fill those later on pretty easily with putty and paint. The bar itself is really comfortable and can hold alot of weight (atleast 300).