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Has anyone used this before,i was thinking about getting one for the house,but its 210cm 6ft 8.Will this be to big to use inside a house,i am nt sure of the height of my celling.

standerd room is 8 feet,and seen a better workout tower on powerhouse at 220cm,so that would be around 8 or 9 inches from the roof i think,i think that would be to big for a house does anyone have one in there house ?

The standard roof is about 8 foot, mine is 9 so why don't you get a tape measure and see? Im sure that would be a lot more accurate than asking random men on the internet about your own home lol =]...also you can buy/make bits of that machine and you will save a lot of money mate

I've used something similar that was much sturdier looking.
If it is sturdy then it's an excellent station to have for some upper body and core work.

But beware it looks ideal for the curse of 99% of home exercise equipment....
...to become clothes hangers!!

Hmmm looks like an ideal bit of kit for my 20+ pull up challenge that im currently undertaking.
currently I just train at the gym on the pull up bar there but I need/want to do pull ups whenever and as often as I can. Im in the process of attaching a bar to the ceiling rafters in the garage, that will suffice for now.

ofens wrote:

But beware it looks ideal for the curse of 99% of home exercise equipment....
...to become clothes hangers!!

I bought some free weights from argos a few months ago which have become very useful doorstops

http://www.powerhouse-fitness.co.uk/bod ... -tower.php

orderd this one yesterday,comes on tuesday can't wait as i really need to get better at the pull ups

Why didn't you just buy one of these for £30:



http://www.jmldirect.com/product.asp?pf ... rrency=GBP

You could use that for most of the things you can do on the power tower, especially if your focus is improving your pull ups, but its much cheaper.

most of the lads in 3 para have them in thier rooms i dont cos im just naturally a beast

Yep that one's also handy because you can just use it while you're walking around.

All this fancy equipment these days lol a load of rubbish and the adverts say it all . What happened to using a normal pull up bar???

that looks good that one,the ones i seen were the type you bolt to the side of the door frame so a just went with the workout tower.

tom163 wrote:All this fancy equipment these days lol a load of rubbish and the adverts say it all . What happened to using a normal pull up bar???

With a normal pull up bar you have to drill two supports into your door frame and it then usually gets left there permanently as its a pain the backside tightening the bar up every time. This one however just fits in place so it is no hassle at all and wont leave any damage to the door frame.

eleven wrote: that looks good that one,the ones i seen were the type you bolt to the side of the door frame so a just went with the workout tower.

If it's not been dispatched yet why don't you try and cancel your order or send it back when it does arrive? It'd be a pain but it'd save you a few quid and that workout tower is going to take up some space!

ave turned one of my bedrooms into a kind of gym anyway so ill just stick with the tower got my treadmill in there to just need to get a tv on the wall for my runs,they tradmills can get quite boreing

bored_stupid wrote:

tom163 wrote:All this fancy equipment these days lol a load of rubbish and the adverts say it all . What happened to using a normal pull up bar???

With a normal pull up bar you have to drill two supports into your door frame and it then usually gets left there permanently as its a pain the backside tightening the bar up every time. This one however just fits in place so it is no hassle at all and wont leave any damage to the door frame.

Most of the pull up bars these days are easily removable.

E.G.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... 003341.htm