Swedish Ladder 1.0

First, I highly recommend Swedish Ladder as a piece of your home gym. I use it to hold my feet for situps and decline pushups, do assisted pullups, TRX, and resistance band workouts. (I can't manage the 'human flag' quite yet, though, LOL.) The ladder is well-made and very solid and I, at 245 pounds, have confidence that it will hold me even with the most extreme TRX angles. If you read the instructions and lay the pieces out ahead of time, assembly is a breeze. It took me about 40min and the hardest part was mounting to the wall. I would not use the included hardware for attachment to drywall only, but invest in heavy-duty drywall anchors or attach wood mounts at the studs and mount the ladder to those. The mounting holes are about 19inches apart, so you cannot attach both sides to studs. I opted for stud-mount on one side and the drywall anchors on the other and it is solid. I had a small problem and an email to Riowlau customer service was returned and solved inside of a day. Very happy with this purchase!

Good product. Solidly built. The bracket holes are more like 17” apart, not 16” to line up with standard stud distance. But if you put one bracket in the inside and another on the outside then you can get the holes to be pretty close to 16” apart. I managed to put both sides on studs. You’ll need a socket wrench or bit if you want to use the supplied wall screws.

Easy to assemble, well made, versatile workouts. We use our resistance bands with it.

We purchased this so we could have an exercise system in our small landing area at the bottom of our stairs. Two of our children are very active and are circus performers at a national level (trapeze, silks, hoop, etc) and we wanted something where they could work on strength training and flexibility at home. This works out on both counts. It feels very well made and sturdy. The metal on the frame is decently thick and the wood is nice and solid, no bend to it at all. The accessories it comes with also seem well made, including the thickest pull-up "assist band" I've ever seen. We are able to do a number of different exercises on it, including some one of our children does at physical therapy. My only nitpick might be the top pull up bar, it sometimes shifts slightly while hanging. We probably could prevent that by tightening the bolt a bit more, I'm just worried about over tightening it into the wood. I'll update the review if we do figure this out. We weren't able to follow the installation instructions exactly due to our stair placement and studs and where our top floor overhang was. We were able to attach some 2x4s to the studs and then attach the frame to the 2x4s. So far so good, it feels very solid. I've attached a picture of the setup, we still need to paint and add some finishing touches to make it look a little less jimmy/jerry rigged.

See video. Super well-made unit, but you'll have to plan ahead if you do a mount into studs. Overall really pleased with the value and quality for the price.