Bullbar vs Fit Home Gym: The Clear #1 Winner Portable Pull-Up Bar

The Bullbar and the Fit Home Gym are both Portable Pull-Up Bars, but are also full-sized. The idea of having a full-sized Free-Standing Pull-Up Bar that can be easily transported and stored is appealing. I’ve already reviewed both of these products, and if you’re looking for something that combines ease of transport with a full-sized bar, these are essentially your only options. But there can be only one winner, so we are comparing the BULLBAR 2.0 vs the Fit Home Gym by MacroFit.

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BULLBAR vs Fit Home Gym: Transportability

Both the Bullbar and the Fit Home Gym can be deconstructed into a package that fits inside a bag. You can buy the official carry bag for either separately. The first difference is the price of the bags: the Fit Home Gym is considerably cheaper at $80, compared to the Bullbar’s carry bag at $150.

The Fit Home Gym bag, though, only carries the tubes and not the base, which you have to carry separately. The Bullbar’s more expensive bag does fit the whole Bullbar 2.0 Foldable Pull-Up Bar. 

The Fit Home Gym weighs 46kg, while the Bullbar weighs a remarkably light 21kg. This difference is already a huge selling point for the Bullbar 2.0, along with its compactness, which allows it to fit into one bag.

The Home Fit Gym can be carried by either the handles on the baseplate and the bag with the tubes, or by the shoulder strap (for the bag). However, the complete assembly does weigh 46kg, so that’s not nothing. The weight of just the tubes is enough to make the shoulder strap dig into your shoulder. 

You can also carry the Bullbar’s bag by the shoulder strap or the carry handles, but why would you do that when you can just wheel it around?

The Fit Home Gym bag stores all the tubes neatly with Velcro straps. It takes some time to place them all back in their original spots, but the bag does a good job of keeping them organised. It looks neat, but it is clearly the less efficient of the two solutions.

The Bullbar 2.0 comes out of the bag fully folded. The only other contents are two Dip Bar extensions and two safety pins. Pockets along the sides of the bag hold these smaller components. An additional strap goes over the Pull-Up Bar before you close the bag to minimise rattling.

Conclusion: The Bullbar 2.0 Foldable Pull-Up Bar clearly wins in the transportability comparison. The Bullbar is lighter, comes in one major piece that all fits in one package, and the bag is easier to transport with the wheels.

BULLBAR vs Fit Home Gym: Assembly

The BULLBAR 2.0 consists almost entirely of a single device, with only the safety pins and optional Dip Bar handles as separate pieces. Assembling the BULLBAR 2.0 involves unfolding the feet and clicking them into place. The top bar can then be lifted, and the side bars will unfold almost like a harmonica. The joint in the sidebars clicks into place, with a thicker part keeping the two halves together. You then insert the safety pins into each joint, which are the only mandatory separate pieces. The Dip Bar handles are optional, but can also be attached easily by inserting them into the desired height opening and turning them to either side.

Setting up the BULLBAR 2.0 takes under a minute once you know the mechanism. It’s a matter of lifting it out of the bag, unfolding the feet and lifting the top bar. 

By contrast, the Fit Home Gym is more of a puzzle with the pieces fitting onto the base. The tubes fit nicely together, and the spring latches are easy to operate, but there are more separate parts that you need to piece together in the correct order. 

Conclusion: The BULLBAR 2.0 is much easier and faster to assemble and disassemble than the Home Fit Gym. You can do either assembly or disassembly of the BULLBAR 2.0 in under a minute, thanks to its folding design. In contrast, you spend considerably more time piecing together the various parts of the Fit Home Gym.

BULLBAR vs Fit Home Gym: Dimensions

A Portable Pull-Up Bar usually means small and compact. These two bars are much larger than the typical telescoping or doorframe design, though. “How much Pull-Up Bar” do you get with each?

BULLBAR 2.0 Dimensions

• Height: 205cm
• Top Bar width: 92cm
• Dip Bar widths:  54cm to 62cm
• Push-up Bar widths: 54cm to 88cm
• Top Bar diameter: 31mm (foam)
• Dip Bar diameter: 38mm (foam)

Fit Home Gym Dimensions

• Height: 193cm
• Top Bar width: 101.5cm
• Dip Bar width: 51cm
• Static Bar: 46cm
• Push-Up Bar widths: 51cm to 81cm
• Top Bar diameter: 38mm
• Dip Bar diameter: 38mm
• Push-Up Bar diameter: 38mm

Conclusions: Both the BULLBAR 2.0 and the Fit Home Gym have their advantages. The Fit Home Gym does not have foam grips, unlike the BULLBAR 2.0. Foam will squish, so you will never get the exact stated diameter. 

The Fit Home Gym also offers more options for the Push-Up Bars, as you can rotate them however you like. The BULLBAR 2.0 offers different height options for the Dip Bar extensions, which also serve as Push-Up Bars. 

Despite the foam covers, the BULLBAR 2.0 makes more sense with its diameters: a thinner diameter for pull exercises and a thicker one for push exercises. The BULLBAR 2.0 also stands 12cm taller than the Fit Home Gym. 

Finally, the area between the Dip Bars is only 43cm for the Fit Home Gym, which can feel very claustrophobic at times during certain exercises. The BULLBAR 2.0 gives you much more freedom of movement.

BULLBAR vs Fit Home Gym: Exercising

Both the BULLBAR 2.0 Foldable Pull-Up Bar and the MacroFit Fit Home Gym offer a diverse range of exercise options. They come close to what we call Power Towers, which include Pull-Ups, Dips, and Push-Ups. I’ve tested all the options on both bars.

The Top Bar

You can do standard variety pull-ups and chin-ups on either bar. The Bullbar 2.0 shows noticeable tilt back and forth during these exercises. The Fit Home Gym has much less back-and-forth wobbling. However, neither bar will topple from front-to-back exercises. 

Neither bar is suitable for above-the-bar movements like Muscle-Ups or Rollovers. Especially, straight-arm dips feel very unsafe on the Bullbar, and on the Fit Home Gym, you will feel the bar jittering underneath you.

With Archer Pull-Ups, I noticed a couple of things. You cannot perform them on the Fit Home Gym since the Dip Bars are in the way. You can remove the Dip Bar handles on the Bullbar 2.0, and this makes Archer Pull-Ups possible. The side-to-side movement is minimal on the Bullbar 2.0. The Fit Home Gym also tends to topple to the side, as I noticed while doing Windshield Wipers.

Where the Bullbar has more front-to-back rattle than the Fit Home Gym, neither will tilt from regular exercises. However, the Fit Home Gym is easy to topple from side-to-side movements, while the BULLBAR 2.0 is not.

Another thing I noticed while doing Windshield Wipers is just how claustrophobic the Fit Home Gym feels. I keep hitting my neck on the mini Static Bar, and I have to keep my legs above the Dip Bars at all times. If I were to fail my exercise and let go at the wrong time, I couldn’t get my legs underneath me to break my fall, as the Dip Bars would be in the way.

The (Mini) Static Bar

The middle bar on the Fit Home Gym can be used as a mini Static Bar for lever exercises, but it is quite a tight fit. The thick 38mm diameter makes for an easy false grip, though. You get very little bar to work with, but the option is there.

The Bullbar 2.0 does not have a bar at waist height. You will have to do all your lever-based exercises on the top bar. For basic levers, this is fine, but rollovers can feel very scary with the front-to-back movement.

The Dip Bars

The Bullbar 2.0’s Dip Bars offer a range of widths for your dips. There’s even a straight bar dip option, but a very wide one. Even the narrowest dip is still a bit wide for the beginner to start with. The Fit Home Gym has a narrower dip at the start, which is ideal for beginners because your shoulders are directly under your hands. However, there is no option to do dips at different widths with the Fit Home Gym.

The Push-Up Bars

The Push-Up Bars on the Fit Home Gym have plenty of options. You can freely rotate them to suit your needs, and along with placing your hands on different parts of the bars, you get a lot of variety. 

For the Bullbar 2.0, the Dip Handles double as Push-Up Bars when placed on the lower levels. This had advantages and disadvantages over the Fit Gome Gym. There is less width variety; however, the depth variety is much greater. You can do higher incline Push-Ups, or do very deep Push-Ups to really hit those triceps. Another advantage is that you can do chair dips on them.

Conclusions After Exercises

Both the BULLBAR 2.0 and Fit Home Gym are great for pull-ups and chin-ups. For standard dips, both are good options; the Fit Home Gym is slightly more beginner-friendly, with a narrower dip that cannot be adjusted. The BULLBAR 2.0 has more variety for your dips, but even at the narrowest, most people will not be able to place their hands straight under their shoulders.

The real differences lie in what each product decided to add to the variety. For the Fit Home Gym, the added middle bar acts as a mini Static Bar for your levers and rollovers. These are possible, but it is a tight squeeze. The Push-Up Bar width range is also greater with the Fit Home Gym.

For the Bullbar 2.0, you’ll have to do your levers on the top bar, but the Dip Bar handles are more versatile in height than the static components of the Fit Home Gym. You can do dips at varying widths and grips, and you can use them for your Push-Ups and Chair Dips as well. 

The decisive factor here is stability and freedom of movement. Neither bar will tilt front-to-back, but the Fit Home Gym is prone to toppling to the side if you induce too much momentum that way. This is almost impossible since the Dip Bars are in the way of side-to-side exercises. The Bullbar 2.0 does not have the side-to-side issue, and it offers greater freedom of movement around the bar for exercises like Archer Pull-Ups and Windshield Wipers.

BULLBAR vs Fit Home Gym Price Comparison

The Fit Home Gym wins in the price department when factoring in the CWW discount, the price of the carry bag and disregarding any of the qualitative benefits that the BULLBAR 2.0 carry bag has over it:

	Regular Price	CWW Discount Price (est.)
BULLBAR 2.0 + Carry Bag	$394 + $149.00 = $543	$528 ($15 off)
MacroFit Fit Home Gym + Carry Bag	$399 + $69.99 = $468.99	$369.24

Note: there have been significant supply issues with the Fit Home Gym that have lasted for at least two years now. We have heard of complaints that the product never arrived to begin with. 

Conclusions About the BULLBAR vs Fit Home Gym

There’s only one thing that’s holding the BULLBAR 2.0 Foldable Pull-Up Bar from being the clear winner, and I think you already know what it is. Starting at the beginning, the carry bag on the Bullbar 2.0 is heaps and bounds better than the bag for the Home Fit Gym. It feels sturdier, and it comes with wheels. The Bullbar 2.0 is also much lighter, making it easier to transport. Literally the only point the Fit Home Gym gets for transportability is that the carry bag is much cheaper. 

However, you don’t necessarily need the carry bag for the Bullbar 2.0, while keeping all the bits and pieces for the Fit Home Gym together would be a nightmare. 

Despite the foam coverings, the Bullbar’s handles make more sense. They are thicker for push exercises and thinner for pull exercises. On any other day, I would prefer the Fit Home Gym’s powder-coated steel surface, except when it’s a one-size-fits-all 38mm. For my push exercises, I don’t mind the foam that much, anyway. 

The real giveaway is in stability, though. At first, the Fit Home Gym had a leg up in this race. The Bullbar 2.0 has a slight wiggle back to front when using the top bar. But neither of them will topple from these exercises, not even when done explosively, and neither is suited for above-the-bar exercises like muscle-ups, either. But, and this is a big but, the Fit Home Gym is too narrow and has a nasty tendency to topple during side-to-side movements. 

The solution comes from the high static Dip Bars, which make almost all side-to-side exercises impossible in any case. The whole make-up of the Fit Home Gym is closed and even claustrophobic to a degree.  Of course, that isn’t a solution but a cop out. 

The Bullbar 2.0 has no trouble staying perfectly in place during Archer Pull-Ups and even Windshield Wipers. The Bullbar 2.0 offers more exercise variety, thanks to its height-adjustable Dip Bars and greater freedom of movement in and around the bar. If you add some Gymnastic Rings to the Bullbar 2.0, you’ve got a complete Calisthenics Home Gym setup. 

Coming back to the beginning of my conclusion, the Bullbar 2.0 is the clear winner here, except it’s more expensive. Like I said, you don’t need the bag for the Bullbar 2.0, and that shaves off a significant portion of the initial buy price. For about $30 more than the Fit Home Gym, you get a superior, full-sized, portable pull-up bar with the BULLBAR 2.0 Foldable Pull-Up Bar.

Frequently Asked Questions About BULLBAR vs Fit Home Gym

Here are a few more frequently asked questions about the BULLBAR vs Fit Home Gym comparison.