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Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.

Pull-up bar

A doorway or rack-mounted bar for pull-ups, chin-ups and hanging work

One bar covers most upper-body pulling. It fits a doorway or bolts to a rack, costs little and takes no floor space, which makes daily volume easy to build. Grip and forearms take the load alongside the back, and very long sessions wreck the hands.

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  • Strength coach · StrongFirst

    Waste is the angle he takes here rather than fashion. Most exercise equipment is worth skipping, he tells readers, and a bar for pull-ups makes his short list of what to buy instead. Buy quality and look after it, he adds, because the alternative gets thrown away. No brand, no model, no word on his own gym.

    Source: StrongFirst: The How and Why to Green Strength Training

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