Best Power Towers (2024): Work Your Upper Body and Core With These Machines

What stands out on our pick for best power tower overall, the Sportsroyals Power Tower, is its versatility and customization. It is one of few power towers that has a pull-up bar with an adjustable height, meaning it can be adjusted for a taller athlete, but can also accommodate low ceilings. The backrest also can be shifted forward and back between seven positions. The power tower offers similar stations and quality as other competitors, but comes in at a lower price. 

The push-up bars can be adjusted into three different angles, allowing for different grips and hand positions in your push-up workout. Furthermore, the pull-up station provides multiple grips for more variations; wide and neutral grips in particular. The ergonomic armrests for knee raises are angled inward at 10 degrees, to prevent a sweaty elbow from slipping off the tower arms. 

We tested the first design of the Sportsroyals Power Tower, which has a base built in an H-shape. Side bars come out either side to further add stability. The new design has the base built with a dual triangular design and three crossbars, providing more stability than typical H-shape bases. This allows for it to have a weight capacity of 440 pounds, which is significantly more than most power towers. Although not the most stable power tower ever, it will get the job done for most. The front crossbar can be a bit of a tripping hazard, however.

While the adjustable pull-up bar is great, the max height is 92.7 inches, which makes the pull-up bar top out a few inches lower—this means it’s not much higher than most power towers. This, along with a narrow pull-up grips, might make this a less than desirable option for a taller person. GGR Founder Coop found the dip handles to be a bit wide for his tastes, but still comfortable enough for most people.

Additionally, some reviews claimed the assembly instructions were hard to follow. If you can power through the assembly, though, the Sportsroyals Power Tower has good value as an adjustable and versatile power tower.

The Weider Power Tower is our pick for the power tower with the best value because of its versatility at an affordable price. The Weider Power Tower is easy to assemble, and versatile, with four separate stations—pull-up, dip, knee raise, and elevated push-ups. Unique in its design, this power tower has the dip and knee raise station on one side, and pull-up and push-up stations on the other. This could allow for two people to use the power tower at the same time.

A purchase of the Weider Power Tower has a 30-day trial membership to iFIT included. A training library of exercises and trainer-led workouts at your disposal, iFIT can be a solid benefit to anyone needing guidance, or anyone who prefers a trainer-led experience.

The handles are padded to grip comfortably and avoid slipping. The tower is only 86 pounds and rated to hold 300 pounds. However, this is for someone on a budget, so it’s a little light and less stable than it could be. You may need sandbags, dumbbells, or weight plates to stabilize the tower at the bottom, as some heavier people wobble more on the power tower.

Unfortunately, Coop says, the dip handles are not great quality, although the leg raise station and pull-up bar work nicely. Another issue you may have with the Weider Power Tower is its size. At over 41 inches wide and 84 inches tall, it will take up some real estate in any garage gym. Also, with its two-station design, you’ll need space to reach the front and back of the power tower, meaning this can’t just be set up by a wall. 

However, if you have the room for it, it can be a great addition to your gym space for a low price: $179 with free shipping at the time of this writing for Amazon Prime users.

The OneTwoFit Wall-Mounted Power Tower is a multifunctional pull-up bar with a couple of tricks up its sleeve. Lightweight and modular, the pull-up bar can be rotated from a pull-up station to a dip and knee raise station by lifting and placing the OneTwoFit on hooks mounted on the wall.

The pull-up bar is not a high-end bar, as the powder coating is not the best and the hand grips are made of cheap foam and are uncomfortable; the vinyl padding is also not the highest quality. But for its low price point, this pull-up station gets the job done and will appeal to many people needing a budget option for their power tower. Coop liked its dip handles’ width as well, as many power towers tend to be wide.

Having a dip station mounted on a wall saves you a lot of space when compared to a traditional power tower, and it can be mounted at any height needed, making this a good option if other towers are a little short. Maneuvering from pull-up bar to dip station is pretty easy, too.

One issue is to make sure the wall you are mounting the power tower onto is a concrete or brick wall for the most stability. If mounting onto normal drywall, you’ll have to put up wood panels or plywood first, before installing the tower into the wall. Unfortunately, the OneTwoFit Wall-Mounted Power Tower does not come with the lag bolts needed for this type of installation, either.

The Fitness Gear Pro Power Tower is a great choice for home gym owners that don’t have a lot of space for a bulky power tower. This tower is about seven feet tall. It isn’t very wide, either, so it won’t require a major blueprint in your workout space. In addition, the armrests can be folded down and the backrest removed, providing more space for pull-ups, or just to save a bit more space. Still, with its low height, it may not be a great fit for taller people.

One unique feature of the Pro Power Tower is that the back pad can be removed and attached at the lower part of the tower, and used for ab exercises like crunches or sit-ups. This adds a new dimension of versatility to this machine, allowing you to get all of your abdominal work done at one station. Some users said that the backrest is a little loose when attached though.

There are multiple grips for pull-ups, although I would like to see a straight bar for chin-ups. There is also no padding on the handles. Regardless, the Fitness Gear Pro Power Tower is a great fit for a small space, and at an affordable price.

The extremes of the outdoors can be harsh for any gym equipment, even quality-made products. Changes in temperature, along with moisture and the elements, will cause paint to crack and metal to rust. If you want something outdoors, you’ll need to make sure your equipment is designed to endure the outside weather.

That’s where the Stamina Outdoor Power Tower Pro comes in, our pick for the best power tower for the outdoors. The exterior coating is specially engineered to prevent chipping and protect from corrosion. There is also UV-protection, which will keep the gold-colored power tower from fading.

The Outdoor Power Tower Pro is constructed from high-quality 11-gauge steel, making this power tower very durable. It also is able to be bolted down into concrete, but that may not be necessary for most people, as the sturdy power tower already weighs close to 150 pounds. 

In addition to a multi-grip pull-up, push-up, and dip station, there’s a ledge on the back of the tower for step-ups or box jumps. This is a nice touch for an outdoor power tower, even though you should be careful with your shins jumping on a metal platform. There isn’t a dedicated leg raise station, however. 

The dip handles are a little short, making it a little awkward to dip for some. This power tower is also $469, which is not a great option if you have to budget. Still, this power tower is a good choice if you’re looking to take your bodyweight workouts outside.

The Fit! Home Gym is a patent-pending all-in-one home gym that can be collapsed into a flat package less than two feet wide and four feet long—about the size of a folding table. When it is fully assembled, the home gym is built into a power tower. Additionally, the wood base can be used with resistance bands and cables for a full-body workout machine, similar to the Vitruvian Trainer+.

We were unable to test out this power tower/home gym combo, but we really like its ingenuity. In its construction, Fit! uses wood for the base and steel for the frame, allowing for a solid weight capacity of 300 pounds. The tower can be constructed in very little time; the website claims it can be built in under 60 seconds. No tools are required in its construction or disassembling.

A purchase of the Fit! Home Gym also includes a membership to the Fit! app, giving you access to a library of over 100 exercises performed on this home gym, along with some trainer-led workouts.

While the Fit! Home Gym is extremely versatile and compact, the power tower has a top height of 76 inches, making the pull-up station not suitable for most tall athletes. But if the pull-up height works for you, this is an incredibly versatile power tower and home gym, with solid value.

We like Titan for good-value strength products, so if you are looking for a great starting piece for a home gym, the Titan Power Tower with Bench can be a fantastic choice. Featuring the usual four stations of a power tower—dip, pull-up, push-up, and knee raise—the Titan Power Tower also has a bench station, opening up a multitude of workout options.

This power tower was also out of stock when we were writing this review so we haven’t gotten to test it yet, but we know that it has rubberized feet to help it feel secure on any surface, and at only 83 pounds, the Titan Power Tower can hold up to 350 pounds. Still, some larger users have said that the power tower feels less stable when using the machine, wobbling a little bit.

There is a lot of value in this power tower. It is made of quality materials at an affordable price, under $200. And this price includes the weight bench, which makes this price almost a steal.

One thing to note is the large footprint the Titan Power Tower with Bench requires. At over six feet long, the added bench makes this much longer than most other power tower options. However, if you can fit this in your garage gym, this power tower with its bench is a solid piece of exercise equipment to add.