Pull up bar height

Colt1835
Colt1835 Posts: 447 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I'm thinking about building an outdoor gym like the picture below. How should I decide the height of these bars? I'll be doing pull ups and chin ups on the tall one. Chest dips and inverted rows on the shorter two.

And if you know any other cool Movements I could do with this, let me know.


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  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    7-8 ft for the tall one and 3 ft for the shorter one
  • Colt1835
    Colt1835 Posts: 447 Member
    I got it built. I also added two bars. The highest is 8'6'' the next is 6'6'' then 4'6''. The two parallel bars are 3'6'' and 20'' apart from the center of the bar to the center. It ended up costing $307. I think that's a pretty good price since a gym membership was going to cost $480 and I really just want to do bodyweight exercises anyways.

    I can't wait to start using it. I'm going to wait a good while for the cement to dry though.
  • giantrobot_powerlifting
    giantrobot_powerlifting Posts: 2,598 Member
    I was just thinking about building something like this yesterday. Low ceiling in my basement, so either garage, or outside.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    aren't you a bit late asking about height if its already built!?
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    edited July 2017
    Yours is already built, but for those doing a similar project in the future, If it's just for you, half an inch above your fingertips or half an inch below your wrist at full extension are good guidelines.

    For general use, 7 ft and 8 ft are standard heights.

    For the dip bars, hip height or 4 ft.
  • sofchak
    sofchak Posts: 862 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    aren't you a bit late asking about height if its already built!?

    I thought that, too, at first. Looks like OP asked the original question on 7/13 and followed up with the photo 4 days later. When I first looked at this post, I looked at the time stamp and thought "he built that in about an hour?" But then I realized the dates were different.
  • Colt1835
    Colt1835 Posts: 447 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    aren't you a bit late asking about height if its already built!?
    sofchak wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    aren't you a bit late asking about height if its already built!?

    I thought that, too, at first. Looks like OP asked the original question on 7/13 and followed up with the photo 4 days later. When I first looked at this post, I looked at the time stamp and thought "he built that in about an hour?" But then I realized the dates were different.

    Yep, I asked about heights on 7/13 and didn't build it until 7/17. The photo is not mine. I pulled that from Pinterest as an example of what I was going to build.
  • SonyaCele
    SonyaCele Posts: 2,841 Member
    that looks awesome! i'd love to have something like this in my yard, you can do so much.
  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    edited July 2017
    I would love to have a set of parallel bars:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7o9uSu9AVI

    and

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOjYKtI0BA


    p.s. it's always funny when people are like "oh you know, the L hold is one of the most basic moves, very simple" and i'm literally dying to hold one for 5 seconds. :lol:
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    edited July 2017
    rainbowbow wrote: »
    I would love to have a set of parallel bars:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7o9uSu9AVI

    and

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOjYKtI0BA


    p.s. it's always funny when people are like "oh you know, the L hold is one of the most basic moves, very simple" and i'm literally dying to hold one for 5 seconds. :lol:

    You don't need parallel bars for an L Hold. Parallettes can be DIY for under $50 at home depot/lowes

    Or if you want to make it hard... you can use a pair of KBs.
  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    stanmann571 wrote: »
    rainbowbow wrote: »
    I would love to have a set of parallel bars:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7o9uSu9AVI

    and

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOjYKtI0BA


    p.s. it's always funny when people are like "oh you know, the L hold is one of the most basic moves, very simple" and i'm literally dying to hold one for 5 seconds. :lol:

    You don't need parallel bars for an L Hold. Parallettes can be DIY for under $50 at home depot/lowes

    yeah, but doesn't OP have that setup they just posted and were asking for things they could do on it?

    I do L Holds on two kettlebells and my gym also has an oldschool men's pommel horse (see below) which i use. ;)
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  • Colt1835
    Colt1835 Posts: 447 Member
    SonyaCele wrote: »
    that looks awesome! i'd love to have something like this in my yard, you can do so much.

    It wasn't hard to build. It took my dad and me about 5 hours, but we took our time and took a lot of rests.
  • Colt1835
    Colt1835 Posts: 447 Member
    rainbowbow wrote: »
    I would love to have a set of parallel bars:



    p.s. it's always funny when people are like "oh you know, the L hold is one of the most basic moves, very simple" and i'm literally dying to hold one for 5 seconds. :lol:

    Thanks for posting this. I think It will be a while before I can do most of these cause I'm a complete beginner, but I look forward to working my way to them.

  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    rainbowbow wrote: »
    I would love to have a set of parallel bars:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7o9uSu9AVI

    and

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOjYKtI0BA


    p.s. it's always funny when people are like "oh you know, the L hold is one of the most basic moves, very simple" and i'm literally dying to hold one for 5 seconds. :lol:

    simple doesn't mean easy...
  • Colt1835
    Colt1835 Posts: 447 Member
    I'm really loving this thing. It meets my current goals perfectly and I save a 40 minute round trip to the nearest gym for both me and my wife. I've started the start bodyweight routine and so far it's been rather enjoyable.

    I built it as a birthday present for myself and I'm really glad I went with it instead of putting that money to a new computer or TV.

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