While there is much to be said for high-tech, state-of-the-art exercise machines, pull up bars for home use are still some of the most effective fitness tools. A bar is small, easy to install and adjust, relatively inexpensive and extremely versatile. An assortment of exercises can be done on home pull up bars, making them a valuable asset for anybody interested in fitness. To understand the enormous benefit to be gained from this device, you only have to take a look at all the things to be done with it.

Obviously, the pull up is one of the most beneficial of these exercises. Always grasp the pull up bar with your palms facing away, inhale deeply and exhale as you pull yourself up. This simple move is good for the laterals, shoulders, arm muscles and triceps. When first starting with a program of pull ups, you may want to stand on a stool to decrease resistance.

To do chin ups, grasp the bar with palms turned toward you, making it easier to raise your chin to the height of the bar. This is a great bicep exercise.

When you get a little further along, you can try one-arm pulls to exercise each lateral individually. Another more advanced exercise to be done on the pull up bar is the front crunch in which you grasp the bar with both hands and lift your knees so that they are parallel with the floor. This is a good exercise for the abdominal muscles.

A still more advanced exercise is the side crunch, in which you grasp the bar and lift your legs to one side and then the other.

This is only the beginning of the exercises to be done on pull up bars for home use. To find them, go to HammerheadFitness.com.