IRON GYM TOTAL UPPER BODY WORKOUT BAR – EXTREME EDITION REVIEWS
Tue, Jun 22, 2010
Iron Gym Total Upper Body Workout Bar – Extreme Edition
- Upper body workout bar designed to strengthen your chest, shoulders, back, arms, and more
- Installs in doorway for pull-ups and chin-ups, or sits on floor for pushups, dips, and sit-ups
- Sturdy steel frame mounts swiftly and removes easily without tools or fasteners
- Fits conveniently in residential doorways 24 to 34 inches wide, with 3.5-inch trim/molding
- 5 total grip positions for versatile workouts; holds up to 300 pounds
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Review by Benjamin Bretz for Iron Gym Total Upper Body Workout Bar – Extreme Edition
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I was a little leery of making this purchase. Normally, products that seem too simple for too reasonable of a price just never end up satisfying in the way you hope (e.g. The Dodge Neon, anything on Jack in the Box’s value menu, my two years at DeVry). But this? Oh. Oh, my faith has been restored in cheap American products.
Because, you see, kids. This is a WELL ENGINEERED cheap American product. Yes, a rarity. I was worried that it would be difficult to assemble. I was worried that it wouldn’t really hang from my door frame. I was worried that it would break under my underwhelming 155lbs. I was worried the Utah Jazz wouldn’t be able to gear up and start winning road games as the playoffs grew nigh.
I mostly worried for naught.
I assembled the Iron Gym Extreme in about 15 minutes. Probably could have done so a lot more quickly, but I was distracted by Boston Legal on DVD, and by gunning my power ratchet wrench at my cat to stop her from playing in the packing materials.
(Note: You do NOT need your own tools to assemble this product. It comes with a little tool. But you can speed up the process with your own tools. You should have your own tools anyway, you know? Be a man.)
Once you assemble the Iron Gym Extreme, you’ll need to pick a doorway. It seemed to fit all my doorways perfectly, but I have heard word of older houses having issues. You will need to insert a small metal wedge into the top of your doorjamb. This helps to secure the device and make sure it doesn’t fall on anyone’s head. It’s not as scary as it sounds, you just kinda shove the thing behind the wood. Then you kinda wiggle it and say “Will that hold it?” Then a few minutes later you say “Gol-darn, it WILL hold it. Ain’t that somethin’.” Should any friends be standing nearby, this would be an excellent time to exchange high-fives.
I then chin-upped. Well, I tried. God as my witness I had no idea I was such a puss. I had like no upper-body strength. I’m pretty sure I heard my cat laughing at me somewhere down the hall behind me, but the blood was thumping in my ears so I can’t be sure. But the bar sure worked!
I didn’t give up and kept at the bar. Now, no, several weeks later I’m nowhere close to entering any Ultimate Fighting Competitions or anything, but I can do buttloads of reps now, and my cat has stopped mocking me.
This product has been excellent. Buy with confidence.
The Utah Jazz, however, appear to be headed towards a first-round sweep at the hands of the L.A. Lakers.
Crap.
Review by I. Eisenhood for Iron Gym Total Upper Body Workout Bar – Extreme Edition
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Depending on the size of your door frame the rating can be anywhere from 1-5 stars. The assembly is pretty straight forward (the instructions weren’t very good, but you really just need to look at the picture and put the pieces in the correct place). It’s a solid piece of equipment and the quality seems good. Here’s the problem: it says that this will fit any door frame from 24″ to 32″. What I discovered is that the ends of the ‘U’ shaped pieces stick out past the bar that is supposed to rest against the molding. This makes the rubber protective sleeves useless since they are not touching the molding. If your door frame is less than 31″ then you will want to find another product. If your frame is 31″ to 33″ then this would be great. My door frame is 28.5″ and I’m having to place towels between the molding and the metal ends so I don’t gouge the wood. If I could make another purchase I would buy one with a simpler grip system that actually made use of the foam/rubber padding. Also, you don’t need to mount this piece to your wall. It works just fine without the wall mount.
Review by James Berninghausen for Iron Gym Total Upper Body Workout Bar – Extreme Edition
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I’ve used this with the P90X program for three weeks now and have had zero problems. I’m about 200 pounds and have never felt unsafe on it. No hardware needed to attach it, easy to assemble, sturdy materials, and comfortable grips. Definitely the best choice for me in Jan 09.
The only downside is a slight mark from the black foam on my white door frame. It’s very slight but if you have a spouse that cares about that and is tall enough to notice it, you may need to wrap it with some fabric.
Review by Oavde for Iron Gym Total Upper Body Workout Bar – Extreme Edition
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Product works, and is strong enough for a 100kg person, but it damages the door frame.
Product has changed through time, mine came with a metal block not a plastic one (probably since the plastic ones were breaking) and knurled handles for the pushups. Pushups and dips are WORTHLESS on this, they should never have compromised it to suit those purposes. The knurled plastic pushup handles are the same parts of the device that apply pressure to the doorframe – the ridges indent into the wood. Probably this can be fixed by slipping a piece of thin wood between the device and the doorframe, but it is an unnecessary complication and the damage is done.
The bolts I received, instead of 8 of the big kind and 2 of the flatheads, I got 10 of the big kind, rounded head bolts …. the two bolts that were meant ot be flathead, well the roundhead went through the wall, denting the soft wall above the frame. I have fixed this by sliding a thin piece of wood between the bar and the wall, and I put a piece of paper between the bolthead and wall and the paper was undamaged so it is not touching the wall anymore. BUT COME ON! Stupid bolts. Wish I had noticed first, I had even read a review by someone else and missed that point.
If it does not fit your door, you are stuffed. So, here are the elusive measurements that I could not find anywhere. Tags for poor customers searching the internet are here
iron gym deluxe extreme measurements dimensions width door size
Width of support bar on top of door: 45.5cm total width, 34cm between the connecting bars
Width between the ends of the bars that will destroy your doorframe if your doorframe space is not at least this wide: 73cm
Width your doorframe should be as a minimum to allow the “padded” (that is, knurled destructor bits) ends to be on the frame: 81.5cm
Max width of the device: 105cm
Now I have only given it 1 star because the door damage infuriates me, it is unnecessary. Also I don’t like reading the instructions where the first step is “with an electric drill, drill 8 holes in the wall to mount the two brackets that will hold the device, with 4 screws each”. It does not need these mounting brackets, but annoying they would even suggest such a thing – the whole point of it is to NOT damage the wall.
One more gripe – they should have made the main bar solid, not two-piece. It was designed two-piece to minimise packaging, and then, they made a mess of the packaging so it is still quite large. I know it is cheaper to have a package that is shorter and wide, but I would have paid more for one that is long and narrow, with a solid bar. That would make it a rock solid product. Alas, it is a bit wobbly and creaky.
Is it a good product otherwise? Apart from door/wall damage and creaky construction, problems that can be fixed, yes it is good. I give it 1 star because I am so annoyed. Fix the door damage problems and I would give it 4 stars. Solid bar, I would give it 5 stars and pay 20% more for it.
Good handle positions. Great variety of pullups and chinups etc… although, not stable or strong enough to climb around on it like a monkey, jumping from grip to grip, turning upside down. You could do all this, it won’t break or fall off (unless you start jumping up or swinging wildly). For steady, controlled work, it is fine.
Too low? Need to bend knees? This really isn’t a problem, and is probably safer because you will fall a shorter distance if it breaks
seriously though, the height is not a problem. In fact if you have a low ceiling the lower height bar is probably a bonus.
Note that when you go up, your head generally goes between the handles, which is good. Better than hitting your head on a bar, anyway.
So if you want to get it, please check the measurements, investigate the screws and reinforce the doorframe with thin wood to protect it. If you do all that, it can be a good device.
If you like this review please hit the button so more people notice it – my ramblings are not worth much but the measurements I think are essential for everyone to see. I searched for days and only found one reference to any measurements.
Review by Jeff Kraus for Iron Gym Total Upper Body Workout Bar – Extreme Edition
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I love this workout bar!
I unpacked the contents (which were very well packed, no chance of any damage in transit) and laid it all out on my living room couch. Sat down on the couch next to the pile of parts, and had it put together completely in 10 minutes. I’d recommend installing all of the bolts loosely at first, and once the entire thing is put together, tighten everything at once. This will minimize the likelihood of installing anything wrong and keep all the components straight.
The instructions show nothing more than an exploded diagram of the bar, but that’s really all you need. All you’re doing is bolting one bar to another bar, and most of the bolts are the same size, so there’s absolutely no need for any more complicated instructions. It even comes with a wrench, so you won’t need to search for one that’s the right size.
So when you’re done, you have the workout bar, and a little metal sliver that you slide onto the door frame as a safety piece – it would hold the workout bar on the frame if it were about to slide off. Which it won’t do, by the way. At least not on my frame.
It’s extremely solid once placed on the frame. No flex, no creaking wood or shifty metal parts. The workout bar and the door frame feel like they are now all part of the same single piece. But all you have to do is lift a couple of inches and the bar comes clean off the door frame. Nice.
I like having all of the hand position options. I don’t feel like they left anything out. And I like using it for push-ups too. Sometimes my left wrist gets a little wonky and I can’t keep it in that hand-perpendicular-to-the-arm position without some pretty serious pain, so this is great because I can just grip one of the bars with each hand instead of using the ground.
So far I haven’t tried using it for anything else, so I’m not sure how it performs in those scenarios. I’ll update the review if and when I try them out.
At any rate, if you’re in the market for one of these workout bars, just splurge a little and get this one instead of the basic model. You’ll get enough use out of the extra hand positions that it’ll be worth it in the long run.
One last thing that may seem obvious but warrants a quick mention anyway — of course, you won’t be able to install this any old way. The bars can’t be on the side of the frame that the door is hinged to, because the door will get in the way. It also won’t fit if the door frame is really close to the corner of a wall. So keep that in mind when deciding where you’ll want to put it. Turns out the designer of my home had a real knack for putting door frames in corners, so I ended up with only one feasible option out of nearly a dozen.