The pull-up journey’s biggest accelerant is not a program — it is PROXIMITY: a bar you pass ten times daily beats a gym bar visited twice weekly. The doorway bar puts the practice in your hallway, and the greasing-the-groove protocol turns passings into progress.

The Hardware Audit

The leverage-mounted doorway bar (no screws — it braces against the frame) fits standard doorframes with intact trim: check the frame’s solidity, follow the weight rating, and test at half-commitment before full hangs. Renters rejoice; doorframes mostly comply. Screw-mounted and freestanding versions serve the exceptions.

Greasing the Groove

The protocol built for hallway bars: multiple tiny sub-maximal sets across the day — pass the bar, do one hang or negative or half your max reps, never to failure, repeat 5-8 times daily. Frequency without fatigue teaches the nervous system faster than weekly exhaustion ever did.

The Daily Menu

Rotation by passing: morning hang (30s), midday negatives (2-3 slow), afternoon band-assisted reps, evening scapular pulls. Each visit costs thirty seconds; the day accumulates a full session invisibly. The bar’s location does the programming.

The Household Clauses

Bar removed or announced when guests duck through (the forehead incident is a rite nobody needs), kids WILL treat it as a jungle gym (supervise or relocate), and the doorway becomes a mild identity statement — which, by rep one, it has fully earned.

Brace the frame, grease the groove, thirty seconds per passing. The pull-up was always a frequency game — the doorway bar just moves the gym to the hallway where frequency lives.