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The Altus Athletic Chin Up Bar, Push Up Bar and Sit Up Bar is a quality home fitness product that offers a little bit more than other bars because it’s adjustable, so you can place it at the top or bottom of your doorway. The ability to change the position of the bar offers you many more exercises you can do in your home with the Altus Athletic Chin Up Bar.

We at Tastefully Driven have installed one ourselves and tested it out. Installation is fairly simple and it worked great for us. This chin up bar offers great exercises to do for your upper body and abdominals. We’ve come up with a list of exercises with muscles worked, instructions, and demonstration in our video.

Chin Up Bar Exercises

Overhand pull ups
Primary Muscles Worked: back and arms
Instructions: With your palms facing forward, grip the bar little more than shoulder width apart. Then pull yourself up till your chin is about above the bar. Come down slowly and repeat.

Underhand pull ups
Primary Muscles Worked: back and arms
Instructions: With your palms facing backwards towards yourself, grip the bar shoulder width apart then pull yourself up. Come down slowly and repeat.

Reverse push ups
Primary Muscles Worked: back
Instructions: Position yourself under the bar and grab hold of the bar. Extend your legs in front then pull yourself up, it should be like you are doing an upside down push up.

Push ups
Primary Muscles Worked: chest and triceps
Instructions: Position yourself over the bar and grip bar. Extend legs back so your back and legs are straight then slowly bring yourself down towards the bar with your chest almost touching the bar. After reaching the down position push yourself back up and repeat.

Dips
Primary Muscles Worked: triceps and shoulders
Instructions: Position yourself above the bar as if you were sitting on it and grip the bar with your palms facing the ground. Hold yourself up and extend your feet forward so your body makes an opened L shape. Bring yourself down by bending at your elbows till your triceps are parallel to the floor. Push yourself up so your arms are fully extended and repeat.

Sit ups
Primary Muscles Worked: abs
Instructions: Place a mat down in front of the bar if you have one. Sit down and place your feet under the bar. Use the bar to hold your feet in place and bend your knees about 90 degrees. Start with your back on the floor or mat and arms by your ears or crossed on your chest (not behind your head). Then bring your head and upper body towards your knees then lay back down slowly and repeat.

Knee Raises
Primary Muscles Worked: abs
Instructions: With an overhand grip, grab the bar and just hang off of it. Now with your legs together bring up both knees towards your chest. Bring your knees down slowly and straighten your legs and repeat.

Leg Raises
Primary Muscles Worked: abs
Instructions: With an overhand grip, grab the bar and just hang off of it. Now with your legs together and extended straight, raise your legs to create a L shape. Bring your legs down slowly and repeat.

Those are just a few of the many exercises that the Altus Athletic Chin Up Bar has to offer. Also included with this home fitness product is an exercise wall chart courtesy of Altus.

Chin Up Bar Exercise Demonstration Video

This chin up bar would be a great addition to your home gym or the start of one with all the exercises it offers. At a reasonable price, it would be hard to find many other home fitness products that the Altus Chin Up Bar has to offer. We’ve used it at Tastefully Driven and we approve of this product. More product information…