Chin up bar and plan - will this work

Thomas_Holding

Apologies for a long post.  When coming back from serious shoulder injury I managed to do press ups by doing them against the wall and then when I could I do 100 (of very easy press ups) then lower the level until I can now do about 20 normal press ups.  Not amazing but considering my injuries I am pleased.

Anyway for chin ups I was thinking of buying this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B092W1K44V#customerReviews

And a) putting it between in a door frame and b) doing chins up with my feet on the floor and raising the level as I get strong.
A) Do people think that it will stay in place (I weight 90Kg)
Will I eventually be able to do chin ups like this?

tacpot12

Every friction-fit bar I've known fails very quickly, often at first use, and anything that clips onto the architrave is just going to pull the architrave off. I would suggest you need a bar that has cups that you screw into the door frame.

Manxman_in_exile

If you have a physiotherapist, are they happy for you to be doing this sort of exercise as rehab after a serious shoulder injury?

I ask because although I consider myself fairly fit and do quite a bit of weight-training, I've always suffered really badly with one dodgy shoulder and purposely avoid certain exercises.  (And one of those is press-ups.  If you aren't doing them with really good form you can easily cause a lot of shoulder damage if you've had any soft-tissue injuries.  I avoid bench press for the same reasons).

I also now use a lot of resistance band exercises.  I used to laugh at these when my wife got some because I didn't think they were "proper" weight training.  In fact they're brilliant and give a much better range of movement for joints like the shoulder than anything else.  I use the tubing type of resistance band that you can get with clip on handles and even a door anchor.  By combining bands of differing resistance you can do light workouts for rehab and heavy ones to gain strength.

Something like this (this is just an example, not a recommendation):  BESTOPE Resistance Bands Set Exercise Bands, Resistance Bands Set Men Workouts With 5 Fitness Tubes, 4 Foam Handles, 2 Ankle Straps, Door Anchor, Home Gym Equipment for Yoga Pilates Strength : Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Outdoors

If you go to Youtube you can just search for training videos by trying "resistance bands shoulder injury" etc.  Also if you look at the Athlean-x channel and search shoulder injury you'll get a lot of advice on exercises NOT to do.

But if you want to persist with pull-ups, I agree with tacpot12 above.  Try to get one that has support cups you can screw to the door-frame.

Oh - and big congratulations on gradually building up from wall press-ups to being able to do 20 proper push-ups!  I haven't been able to do 20 press-ups since I was a teenager!  Well done!

MalMonroe

This is akin to asking for and receiving medical advice, which we're not supposed to do (I was suspended a couple of months ago for being involved in a thread where people were giving minimal advice).

BUT before you do anything please do see your GP. You could do permanent damage if you do the wrong thing. Please get some professional help.

And that's all I can say because otherwise, I could be struck off! (From this forum, that is)

Thomas_Holding

Manxman_in_exile said:

If you have a physiotherapist, are they happy for you to be doing this sort of exercise as rehab after a serious shoulder injury?

I ask because although I consider myself fairly fit and do quite a bit of weight-training, I've always suffered really badly with one dodgy shoulder and purposely avoid certain exercises.  (And one of those is press-ups.  If you aren't doing them with really good form you can easily cause a lot of shoulder damage if you've had any soft-tissue injuries.  I avoid bench press for the same reasons).

I also now use a lot of resistance band exercises.  I used to laugh at these when my wife got some because I didn't think they were "proper" weight training.  In fact they're brilliant and give a much better range of movement for joints like the shoulder than anything else.  I use the tubing type of resistance band that you can get with clip on handles and even a door anchor.  By combining bands of differing resistance you can do light workouts for rehab and heavy ones to gain strength.

Something like this (this is just an example, not a recommendation):  BESTOPE Resistance Bands Set Exercise Bands, Resistance Bands Set Men Workouts With 5 Fitness Tubes, 4 Foam Handles, 2 Ankle Straps, Door Anchor, Home Gym Equipment for Yoga Pilates Strength : Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Outdoors

If you go to Youtube you can just search for training videos by trying "resistance bands shoulder injury" etc.  Also if you look at the Athlean-x channel and search shoulder injury you'll get a lot of advice on exercises NOT to do.

But if you want to persist with pull-ups, I agree with tacpot12 above.  Try to get one that has support cups you can screw to the door-frame.

Oh - and big congratulations on gradually building up from wall press-ups to being able to do 20 proper push-ups!  I haven't been able to do 20 press-ups since I was a teenager!  Well done!

Thank you.  It is actually easy to go from no strength to be able to do 20 press ups.  You just do wall ones (anyone can do very high wall ones) and just go down and down.
Obviously pull ups are not quite so easy because it is much harder to cheat and reduce the cheating overtime.