P90X Users: Question about Pull Up Bar

I would advise you to shop around. I have used the kind where you actually screw mounts into your door frame and it was quite sturdy. I currently use one of the off-brand ones that "hangs" from your door frame. If you don't have the correct width doors, with the right trim around them, with about 4 inches to spare on either side of the doorway, it won't fit and work properly. I only have one doorway in my entire house that I can use it from (out of 6 doors with trim)! You can buy either kind for ~$20. I got my screw-in one from Play it Again Sports, and my hanging one from Marshall's.

The screw in one also does not allow you to vary the grips. You would not be able to do p90x very well with it. You need to be able to do narrow grip pullups, wide grip pullups, and have grips at shoulder-width.

It might be worth it for you to invest in resistance bands and perform lat-pulldowns instead (which is still true to the program), especially if you cannot perform pullups already.

Get an "Iron Gym" on amazon or Ebay. You can find them cheap on there. That's what I have and it's awesome because it has like 4 different positions for pull ups which is what you will be doing in P90X. You can also take it down and use it as a push up bar.

I bought some some materials at Lowes and mounted mine in my garage. Thus, is doesn't require me putting any screws in my house or take a chance at scraping up my door trim. I used some angle iron and a 4' steel pipe. There is a picture in my profile of me using it, but it's not a super clear one. I mounted it right to the joists and at my heaviest 220ish it didn't even budge. Just another idea for those that don't want to spend much...

I have used the resistance bands and a pull up bar. I used just the standard pull up bar, my molding around my door will not allow for the ones that hang over the molding. Mine is actually between two walls now so I am able to adjust my grip, but I will say for awhile it was in the doorway and it was harder to switch the grips. I think my pull up bar was 10 dollars at Walmart. Good Luck with P90X, I hope to be back to soon. After some recent falls I have incurred some injuries and will b rehabing for a while!

We also have the Iron Gym version from Target that is very nice and allows for different grips. My hubby likes it but I have to do the assissted pullups with a chair and it's very hard to concentrate on not using your legs to push off too much. So I'm curious in how the resistance bands method works. Of course, I see them do it on the video but it looks like it is hanging from the ceiling....how would I do something like that in my house?

Flip your resistance band over the pull up bar!

DUH! Why didn't I think of that?! Thanks Mmtiernan!!