Bunsen, why adjustable height?
Bunsen, I need the same thing! Adjustable height, I assume is for the exercises working up to the pull ups.
Yes, what acollegestudent said - to be able to do the body weight “rows”:
http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/04/25/do-a-pull-up/
I am using the bar on my treadmill to do this exercise, but alas, I can’t regulate the height. I can make it smaller by putting something under my feet, but it is not very practical. It is a good use of the Precor on my non-running days though. 
Take a look at this site for materials and plans to build your own.
http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/blog/pull-up-bar-adjustable-and-portable/
See this also:
http://www.amazon.com/All-one-Stand-Alone-Pull/dp/B001KUURTS
or here:
http://bestinformationwebsite.com/best-power-towers-pull-up-station-top-5/
Or here:
http://freestandingpullupbar.net
Thanks, MNK! I think I’m going to skip the DIY projects… but this (fond in your last link!) looks very promising:
Thanks!!
Bunsen, I would be a bit leery of an aluminum product. Light weight but could be very flexy across the bar. Also, if aluminum fatigues, it can crack with no warning. I didn’t know that product was aluminum when I first found it on Amazon. I’ve never seen one in person so my comments could also be off base with this product.
Take a look at this product made by Body Solid and sold by Leisure Fitness. While it is not height adjustable, the various hand rails effectively give you much of the same versatility. Body Solid makes very good home and light commercial exercise equipment. I have used a lot of their products and generally like them. If you get it through Leisure fitness, I can give you my Trainer discount code which I am permitted to use with clients that will get you 15% off list price which is better than the indicated internet sale price. Right now they are covering shipping costs too. If you end up interested in this piece, send me a PM and I will explain in more detail how to get my trainer discount. Here’s the link:
https://www.leisurefitness.com/Body-Solid-Vertical-Knee-Raise-Dip-Pull-Up-P196.aspx
Oh, thanks for pointing this!! Aluminum is out, for sure.
Let me take a look at the LF one… Looks pretty solid.
It gets very good reviews on Amazon too. If you do a search by the brand and model number a link to the Amazon page comes up and the price is even lower than I could get it for, assuming it’s still available on Amazon at that price.
Bunsen:
I have two pieces from a company called Valor Fitness – my weight bench and a cable pulley lat pulldown rack. Both are very heavy duty – the weight bench is ridiculous. Solid stuff, welded steel rectangular tubing. I’ve been very satisfied especially for the prices.
They make a pull up/dip rack that is half the price of the Body Solid with the same size & weight steel tubing. It’s a little narrower than the Body Solid (36 inches wide versus 43 inches wide. Otherwise about the same size.
A couple of differences. The grips for the pull up are more useful, giving you both normal grip and the more shoulder friendly neutral grip (I use neutral most of the time). The wide angled grips on the Body Solid will be too far apart to be useful. I have those on my chin up bar and can’t use them because they are so far apart. They make a very hard exercise impossibly difficult.
Also, instead of the thicker bars for the feet, they use a rounded steel bar that let’s you do angle pushups:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DmMiZ436fk
http://www.valorathleticsinc.com/store/product.php?productid=16419&cat=0&page=1
Amazon has it for $194 with Prime Shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/Valor-Fitness-CA-15-Chin-Station/dp/B0069TXEOK
Overstock has it for $195 with free shipping:
http://www.overstock.com/Sports-Toys/Valor-Fitness-CA-15-VKR-Chin-Up-Push-Ups/7536318/product.html
Oh wow, thank you so much, MNK and idad! Off to check Amazon and your links! Just need my morning coffee first. 
10.6 miles. 71 degrees and sunny to start. I really wanted to average over 11 minute pace for this, since my goal was time on my feet before next week’s very difficult, hilly half marathon. I did the first mile slow enough, but none of the rest were over 11. I was really ready to have it over by the last mile. I’m happy I got it done.
Our Vanderbilt athletic community lost a 22 year old former basketball player Thursday night (he played 3 years at Vandy, was loved, but had to leave the team and university due to some issues with pot. He was gracious and appreciative in his departure and played his final year at Univ of Indianapolis). He drowned in a boating/tubing accident.
I made it a point to not be negative (in my own head) about doing my run and I dedicated it to those who are no longer on this earth and can’t do the things I am still able to do.
Brew at the Zoo event last night wasn’t ideal pre-long run preparation. But you can’t beat drinking craft beers all night, traipsing all over the zoo and petting goats and bunnies!
That is a sad, untimely death of the young man MOWC. Sorry to hear.
I have been out of the loop here for a while - H (age 64 ) probably weeks after the half (we did 15 min miles so not that strenuous) came down with Grave’s disease. He remembered his grandmother had it at age 64 and in 1950’s got radioactive iodine. The symptoms he had were about 3 weeks? of HR 100 (it was 60s during the training) and sudden weight loss (13 lbs in an already thin person). And started to feel really weak with a tremor of his fingers/hands he never had. The endocrinologist said the exercise is not related but the food poisoning may have precipitated it -while visiting my mother (I know -had to be my mother visit). It is autoimmune. I am mentioning this because I am sure that I have missed it in my diagnosis of patients at work and it is treatable. Immediately he went on metoprolol and that helped the HR and tremors and figidtiness. RAI given on the 27th of May our anniversary (he got nuked and I got time to myself in another bedroom). Finally a little turn of the corner today he went in the green house and outside to plant!! I have been reading about it and George Bush’s (first guy) Graves press conferences during his- and some are downright funny. I had no idea he had that sense of humor. H has been nice throughout this and really I cannot complain.
BTW:The snugbuds I got for the training were broke on arrival one ear did not work. It was quite the effort to get the refund after sending it back in February. They claimed they never got it and I had the delivery proof. They refunded the money. Just FYI.
Wow- sorry about your husband’s Graves disease. I remember when George the First had it because he used to show up at the gym where I worked out in Dallas (Cooper Aerobic Center). Glad your husband is improving.
Also sorry about the Snugbuds. I have had good customer service with them through a few warranty replacements. You just never know, though.
Did first day of charity walk (I’m part of a team)–today was 10 miles. We started early–7:30am–which was good because temperature this afternoon is 84.
Morgan Percival Loop YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya9E-uyeK6k
I’m sore today. Had to hit the ibuprofen. Not a super long hike, but a lot of challenging terrain, both up and down.
The Morgan cliffs are the limit of my adventure. Up three ladders (that part is fine), then through a cave on hands and knees (I made it without having to take off my pack, but almost got stuck). Then, out onto the top of a cliff, scramble up and across a boulder on top of the cave, and then up/across a sloped ledge where you really don’t want to even think about slipping. A couple places where I have to pull myself up to a knee on top of a step and then stand up.
Not terrifying like the first time I did it (one of my earliest hikes), but plenty of challenge for an ol’ geezer. 3:32 of the video is a look back down the cliff you have to navigate above the ladders from above. Would not want to do it in wet.
What a great video. Those ladders! I would be terrified. Love the views from the top.
The ladders don’t spook me. They are bolted to the cliffs and give you a substantial, solid hand hold. What gets me is the rock ledges above the ladders. They start from the cliff edge at the top of the ladders, which is pretty exposed. So if you slip, slid, or tumble down the sloping rock ledges, you end up at the cliff edge at the top of the ladders with nothing to catch you. It’s not like rock climbing, but bits of it are on hands and knees holding on to little crevices of rock. It’s enough to get your attention.
There’s a bypass route that is just a normal trail to the summit. That’s what I usually take on this hike.
@MichaelNKat, that’s strange about your A1C. Mine was a little lower, but also qualifies as “pre-diabetic.” However, my triglycerides were through the roof, the rest of my blood work was consistent accross the board, I was hypertensive, and showing all of the signs of metabolic syndrome. I believed everything I saw and have been acting accordingly.
A1Cs were often considered superior to fasting glucose level (I don’t work with a diabetic population anymore, so claim no more than a superficial nursing knowledge of it), because they are reflecting a trend over time-roughly 6 weeks, whereas someone could really “behave” for a few days before a glucose level and get away with looking as though they were controlling blood sugar better than they actually were. I don’t know if there are new, superior markers to identify those at risk for developing diabetes or not. But with your fitness levels and your other blood work, it just doesn’t make any sense to me.
The ladders spook me!! You’re brave iDad!
Rocky, I"m not very familiar with Graves but sending good thoughts to your husband.