Review of the Lifeline Power-up Chin-up Bar

Looking at the front of the box you will notice two separate hand grips that hang from the doorway. When buying this piece of exercise equipment I was under the impression that these hand grips hang on the door frame much like the easy to use Iron Gym pull-up system that requires no screws or holes for mounting.

The Lifeline Power-up Chin-up Bar does have an easy, screw-less, hole-less mounting process but does not hang from the doorway. Attached to the hand held grips are large solid doorstops that you drape over the top of the door. When you close the door, you will notice that the doorstops are too big to fit through the gap between the top of the door and the door frame leaving the hand held grips suspended in place for you to do your pull-ups. When doing pull-ups, there isn't much room between your body and the door, so your body is sliding up and down the door throughout the movements which is very distracting and uncomfortable.

On a conventional pull-up bar I can do over 20 pull-ups, and though the friction didn't seem to make it any harder to pull my body up with the Lifeline Power-up Chin-up Bar, the creepy sensation of sliding up and down my door made me stop after only 6 pull-ups. In the directions of the Lifeline Power-up Chin-up Bar, they instruct you to bend your knees up to create some distance between yourself and the door. I imagine that having just your knees, rather the your entire body, rubbing against the door r would make the sensation far less creepy, but I wouldn't know for sure because my doors are hollow and I was not going to risk breaking my door for this product.

The good thing about this product is its size. This product is the size of the handles on resistance tubes making it a very practical, portable option for taking with you on the road. Since my creepy sensation threshold was only 6 pull-ups, this may be an option for people who cannot perform that many pull-ups. Overall, I would not recommend this product as it sells for $20, and for that price I'd recommend the "Perfect Pull-up" or a standard pull-up bar. If you don't want to put any holes in your doorways I'd pay an extra $10 for the "Iron Gym" doorway hanging pull-up bar.