Fit Home Gym Review 2026: A Calisthenics Swiss Knife?

The Fit Home Gym is built like a Swiss knife for Calisthenics. Built with small living spaces in mind, the Fit Home Gym is a complete home gym that fits into a suitcase. With a sleek, modern design, the Fit Home Gym boasts all the features of a Free-Standing Pull-Up bar, yet it can be both assembled and disassembled in just 60 seconds. I’ll review all the ins and outs of the Fit Home Gym and how it performs during various Calisthenics exercises.

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Sinking Popularity of the Fit Home Gym

When I first got the Fit Home Gym, it was immensely popular and scored a solid 4.4 stars on TrustPilot. At the time, there was a waiting list if you ordered yours, and many had to wait 4 to 8 weeks for theirs to arrive. I had to wait 10 weeks for mine. Its effectiveness as an all-round Pull-Up Bar, ease of use, sleek looks, and space-saving design were often cited as reasons for the high rating.

That popularity has taken a hit since my first review. Many negative reviews now state that their Fit Home Gym hasn’t arrived at all, even after waiting a long time. We have tried to contact MacroFit multiple times, but haven’t received a response.

About MacroFit and the JointFit App

The JointFit App, developed by MacroFit, is a well-known app from the same developers as Project Calisthenics and Yogasthenics. These apps have been gateways into Calisthenics for many. The JointFit App is not only a Calisthenics App, but also offers courses for almost any sport imaginable. That makes the customer base of the Fit Home Gym immense, and its initial Kickstarter campaign to develop the Fit Home Gym raised close to $120,000. The community’s trust and dedication in making the Fit Home Gym a success were definitely there from the start. 

Assembling the Fit Home Gym

The Fit Home Gym comes with a baseplate and a collection of tubes. Setting it up means fitting the Dip Bars into the baseplate and attaching the other tubes to them. There are no bolts to turn or screws to tighten. It can be a puzzle to fit all the parts together correctly. When disassembled, you are left with a heap of tubes. Getting the carry bag is essential to keep things organised and prevent components from being lost.

The Fit Home Gym is a Free-Standing Pull-Up Bar with Dip Bars and Push-up Bars. You can also use the baseplate for band exercises with a Resistance Band.

This provides you with tremendous versatility in a very compact package. All the critical components of your Calisthenics Home Gym Equipment are concentrated in one compact and cost-effective package. 

First Look At the Fit Home Gym

The basic specifications:

• Floor dimensions: 110cm x 58.5cm x 5cm (43” x 23” x 2”)
• Height Top Bar: 193cm (75”)
• Dimensions Dip Bar: 50.5cm x 58cm (19¾” x 23¾”)
• Weight: 38lbs for the baseplate and 64lbs for the frame
• Capacity: 180kg (400lbs)
• Materials: 1¾” powder-coated tubular steel, plywood

I’m always a fan of a sleek powder-coated steel look that combines black with light-colored plywood. I do notice the diameter on all grips is the same, 38mm. This is a great diameter for push exercises, but not so great for pull-ups and chin-ups.

Fit & Finish

The Home Fit Gym is made of durable, powder-coated tubular steel. The coating is even over all the different parts. The powder-coated surface feels nice, but it can become slippery during prolonged workouts. This is true with all steel grips, and I recommend using chalk during your exercises. 

The real allure of this design lies in its compactness for a Free-Standing Pull-Up Bar and its versatility. The spring latches facilitate quick assembly, enabling the modular application of the Fit Home Gym. The latches are easy to depress and not too stiff. Outwardly, they look like the latches you might find on party tents or canopy tents. However, these are quality latches that depress and return without trouble or resistance.

The tubes fit snugly with no wiggle between the individual parts. The frame also fits snugly into the baseplate, with no play between the parts. 

The baseplate is arguably the real star of the MacroFit show. It is made of high-quality, lamellar plywood. Various fitting points and latches dot the baseplate. The surface features a shiny, satin finish that provides a good grip for basic runners (sneakers). The baseplate is the heaviest part of the construction, which helps keep the centre of gravity low to the ground. 

Stability & Comfort

The Fit Home Gym performs well during all standard Calisthenics exercises. The grip feels nice, but it does require some chalk after a while. It performs very similarly to most Free-Standing Pull-Up Bars. That means you get enough stability for standard Pull-Ups and Chin-Ups. Above-the-bar exercises, such as Muscle-Ups, are possible but not recommended. Just like all other Free-Standing designs, you will notice a sway or a wobble when doing these exercises. 

Archer Pull-Ups are not possible because the Dip Bars get in the way. While doing exercises like Windshield Wipers, I noticed two drawbacks of the Fit Home Gym design. The first is that if I were to fail my exercise at the wrong time, I would not be able to get my legs underneath me to break my fall. The Dip Bars would get in the way and cause a nasty clash.

The second drawback is that the baseplate is too narrow to handle side-to-side movements anyway. The Fit Home Gym tends to topple to the side without much momentum.

The Home Fit Gym handles dips much better. The Dip Bars are at a static width, but ideally placed so that your hands are in line with your shoulders. This is the most beginner-friendly width. The thick 38mm bars also lend themselves well to push exercises. Of course, you cannot do wide dips.

The Push-Up Bars are excellent for the same grip thickness, but also because you can rotate them freely.

Weighted Calisthenics is possible with a maximum weight capacity of 400lbs. However, the bar’s limited height makes a Weighted Vest more feasible than a Dip Belt. 

General Thoughts About the Fit Home Gym

The Fit Home Gym is compact and versatile. It allowed me to do my Pull-Ups and Chin-Ups, just like on a regular Free-Standing Pull-Up Bar. At the same time, I can do Dips, Push-Ups and even use Resistance Bands thanks to the clever baseplate design. The Home Fit Gym is also an eyecatcher with a great colour combination of black powder-coated steel and a pale, wooden baseplate. 

Despite being segmented, the tubes fit snugly together and slotted into place without resistance. The material quality and workmanship are there.

The Negatives 

Apart from the delivery time (which we’ll come back to later), there are a few material disadvantages to the Fit Home Gym. 

It doesn’t take much to lift the baseplate off the ground during side-to-side movements like Windshield Wipers. The design is made versatile by its baseplate, but that same baseplate also confines it. When you stand on it, you already feel constrained to the area of the baseplate, and there is very little more room for movement. 

So, is the solution to the side-to-side movement simply not to allow it? 

The price is another disadvantage you cannot get around. You get a lot of versatility from a single product that does both Pull-Ups, Dips, Push-Ups and facilitates Resistance Bands. However, it costs $400, and for that money, you can also get each of these separately, and they will each do a better job than the Home Fit Gym.

Now for the elephant in the room, the extraordinary delivery time. We waited approximately 10 weeks for our Fit Home Gym to arrive, and that is only slightly above average. Looking at their Trustpilot score, the 1-star reviews almost all complain about the long wait times. At first, we thought that supply could not keep up with demand, and that might have been true at one point.

However, we now hear too many stories of the product not arriving at all, making it unlikely that this is a coincidence. We reached out to MacroFit about this, but they have not responded to us either. It’s almost as if the company no longer exists, but the website is still taking orders. 

The Bullbar 2.0 as a Fit Home Gym Alternative

Comparing the advantages and disadvantages of any product becomes irrelevant if that product never ships. In the meantime, another compact full-sized Free-Standing Pull-Up Bar option has appeared on the market, the Bullbar 2.0 Foldable Pull-Up Bar.

I did a Bullbar vs Fit Home Gym comparison, as these are the only viable portable Pull-Up Bars on the market that are also full-sized. In that comparison, which excluded delivery times, the Bullbar 2.0 Foldable Pull-Up Bar came out as the better Pull-Up Bar.

Conclusions About the Fit Home Gym

We are left with a dilemma for our Fit Home Gym review. We already have the product, so do we review that purely as it is materially? Or should we also consider the numerous complaints about the lengthy delivery times, which can potentially drag on indefinitely?

We’ll start with the product itself. If you can get your hands on one, it holds some merits. It is compact, easy to assemble, and versatile. This provides a full-sized, Free-Standing Pull-Up Bar that can be stored under your bed after use. The innovative baseplate design keeps everything compact, and the Dip Bars and Push-Up Bars are especially great.

The Fit Home Gym is a looker, with its powder-coated tubes, rounded edges and pale wooden baseplate. The quality of construction and the fit and finish are above fine. They better be, since you pay a nice sum of money for one. 

However, all of those points are moot if you will never receive what you paid for. If supply cannot meet demand, at least communicate this and institute sale stops. However, as it stands, the company not only fails to communicate, but it has apparently also stopped delivering altogether in some reported cases. 

It is because of these concerns, along with issues like the claustrophobic design and a tendency to topple from sideways movements, that I cannot recommend the Fit Home Gym at all. If you are looking for a compact, easy-to-store Free-Standing Pull-Up Bar, consider the BullBar 2.0 Folding Pull-Up Bar.

Frequently Asked Questions about the Fit! Home Gym

Here are some frequently asked questions about the Fit Home Gym.