The p90x Pull Up Bar is a specially designed metal bar that fits into any normal doorframe in your house. The bars are foam covered for safe gripping and the easily attached chin pull up can hold a 300 pound person or less. The only requirement is that your doorway has a wooden trim since the p90x Pull Up Bar is mounted on clips that are screwed to the top of the doorway over the frame. The p90x Pull Up Bar comes with an installation guide and is basically easy to use on a framed doorway.
Designed to be used for both pull ups and chin ups, the bar lets you choose your grip from 12 possible positions. The bar has to be assembled but can be out of the box and in use in minutes. The exercises that are suggested for a complete workout using the p90x Pull Up Bar can make it your own at- home gym. The workout of exercises that are possible with the Bar are Wide Front Pull Ups, Reverse Grip Chin Ups, Close Grip Overhand Pull Ups, Switch Grip Pull Ups, Corn Cob Pull Ups. The p90x Pull Up Bar comes with information and step by step instructions on how to accomplish those exercises.
The product manufacturers claim that the workout given using the bar is the best possible to build strength and endurance in your shoulders, back, abs, arms and neck. It is supposedly a total workout of your upper body muscles. The basic bar sells for under $60 but there are accessories that can be ordered to increase the usability of the basic bar.
The p90x Training System is a workout for the bar following CD instructions. The CD’s sell for under $120.
There are many other accessories that can be ordered but the simplest way to take full advantage of the p90x Pull Up Bar is to buy the entire kit that sells for under $240. The start up kit includes not only the bar but the instructional DVD, a fitness guide, a daily calendar, and a nutritional 3 phase regiment.
The bar works on the principle of resistance instead of weight to build up your upper muscles. An accessory is the p90x special package that comes with 3 sturdy bands of differing resistance based on weight. You get a 30 pound, a 40 pound and a 50 pound resistance band. This accessory also comes with a set of handles that can be used between the bands.
The total gym workout would not be complete without a nutritonal supplement to restore what your workout will take out. Regardless of how good your physical fitness is or how targeted to your muscle development needs an exercise program is, if you do not take into consideration your bodies nutritional needs, you will not get the best possible results that you can expect with a proper nutritional supplement — with or without a pull up workout.
The p90x Recovery Formula is a nutritional supplement that is specally formulated to restore the nutrients your body requires to build muscle and keep your energy at optimum levels. This nutritional supplement is sold to keep you going fully charged nutritionally for 30 days.
The p90x is a registered trademark of extreme home fitness products. The products available from this line include heart monitors, energy bars, various resistance handles that can attach to your bar and many other accessories. For those interested in building their upper muscles in the privacy of their own homes, the p90x Pull Up Bar is the easiest and the most inclusive system. The instructional DVD’s and simple installation makes it a program for even the beginner in upper body muscle building aspirations to want to own and use.
