"Iron Gym"

[Skippy]

Aye, Yuris made a thread on this before. I'm looking into buying a pull up bar that causes no damage to the door frame and looking at this, it seems as though it would be no different to just hanging some push up paralletes off your door frame.

http://www.smrfoamroller.com/pushupbar.gif


I can buy these for about £5 ($8), and see no reason why I should spend more if it could do the same thing haha.

Can anyone just confirm for me if this would work or not, or Yuri if you're around is there some kind of design the iron gym has that this idea doesn't that makes it work?

[Skippy]

Thread answer; No, it didn't work at all. I borrowed some bars from a friend and I am entirely dissapointed =[

Oh well. guezz I iz going to have to purchase online shiz.

[Yuri]

what the hell skippy?

how were you planning on hanging them? the iron gym is built specifically to hang in a doorway. were you going to use chi to keep the pushup handles in the door?

I don't understand how you compare paralettes to this:
http://makuro.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/an_iron_gym.jpg

[Phil D]

how did you think you could hang those from a doorframe?

[Yuri]

http://www.plunderguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/iron-gym-bar-3.jpg

the black bar and the long sides work with each other to keep the iron gym in the door

explain to me how you were going to make this work

[Skippy]

Oh no they hung off perfectly fine haha, until I jumped on myself where they eventually slipped off after a few reps.

I have relatively thick doorframes, I latched one end of the paralletes onto them and they just hung off =]

It didn't work as I wanted though unfortunately, I'm not sure what initially made me think it may work haha, but oh well. Who gives a shiz? I'll be purchasing an iron gym thingy anyway.

Gurd tooms.

edit: thats a lie, I got the idea of it from in my friend Nicks, where he had a pair of them and we hung them off a wooden beam in his attic and did muscle ups on them.

[Yuri]

the iron gym is a solid investment
well worth the $30

get a pair of rings too and you'll be set

[Skippy]

2 quick questions on it;

Is it secure when doing front levers? Assuming you will have done/tried them on it.

Have you tried doing any kind of handstand shibizzle on it? Like using the handles made for the oh so extreme press ups and dips as handstand blocks?

[Yuri]

it is secure for front levers

when i was in israel one guy brought one, and I did a handstand on it. it seemed fairly sturdy
i was also considering it for planches but never tried

as for blocks, they act more like a set of parallettes

I need to get/make a set of handbalancing blocks

[joepaxton]

GOD I LOF YOU GUYS

I have actually never seen this product before. I recently fractured my ankle so I am in a cast and have been wanting to do some upper body work but weights have become pretty difficult to do standing on one leg:eh:

My rents haven't wanted me to use a pull up far as it fucks up the door frame, and now here lies the perfect answer:smile:

[Ewasiuk]

If you put these at the bottom of the door frame you can do glute ham raises :smile:

[Karlnold]

You're a complete idiot.

[Ewasiuk]

You're a complete idiot.

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/8694/ghr3.jpg

I'm pretty sure you can work something out if sit ups are able to be performed as well(assuming the small black bar won't get in the way):

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7230/irongympullupbar.jpg

[Karlnold]

I was referring to the main post by Skippy, Ewasiuk.

[Skippy]

My heart is warmed, Karnold.

[Lees Dragon]

OOooooOOo...Sweeet.
I need to get those, if theyre that good.
Who could say no to pull ups without damaging the door. :smile:

[Lukas]

what the hell skippy?

how were you planning on hanging them? the iron gym is built specifically to hang in a doorway. were you going to use chi to keep the pushup handles in the door?

I don't understand how you compare paralettes to this:
http://makuro.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/an_iron_gym.jpg

Lol, this made my day. CHI-UPS (not a misspelling)

[Starter Kit]

I could still imagine those destroying a door frame, especially if you lived in an old house.

[Ashtar]

Skippy please post a picture of how you hang your paralettes off the door frame to do pullups with them. I just can't picture how this works.

[luke walka]

I could still imagine those destroying a door frame, especially if you lived in an old house.

no ive used them on some pretty shitty doors, even a one handed pull up is ok. they are definitely worth $30.

[Ashtar]

One-handed pullups are fine because it's the same weight on the frame. That's why single-arm work is better on weak doorframe bars. It'd be sorta risking it to try pulling with a lot of weight strapped to you.

[luke walka]

thank u for saying the same thing in more words...

[Yuri]

hmm i tried handstand and planche on it, and I was not happy with it

the handles are too skinny and i don't feel it is any better than the floor this way

oh well, back to pullups and levers

[Ashtar]

thank u for saying the same thing in more words...No I didn't, read it again. You said 'even a one-handed pull-up is okay' which to me read as if they would somehow place more stress on the door frame: which they wouldn't.