Free Standing Pull Up Bar
With a lot of people indulging in workout at home and assembling the requisite equipment within the close confines of their home, the fitness equipment industry is booming! I mean you have a range of things you can get home and work your way towards a great body and fitness. From the most uncomplicated dumbbells to pull bars to treadmill, you have it all. Talking of pull up bars, a lot of homeowners who have workouts revolving around pull ups and the like have free standing pull up bars. These are portable, take less space and overall are very convenient. There will be some more about these bars in the article coming up, in case you are interested.
How to Make a Free Standing Pull Up Bar
As this equipment is meant to be portable, to make doing pull ups convenient, it is obvious that it will be made in a specific manner and the things required for that will be accordingly easy and light to handle, but sturdy enough. Take a look at how to do that.
The Supplies
The requirements for making a pull up bar are -
- Two pieces of 2' x 4' x 80" lumber for vertical posts, with the length as per the height you need the bar to have
- Two 2' x 4' x 36" lumber blocks for bottom extension and support
- Six lengths of 2' x 4' x 20" to make diagonal supports
- Two lengths of 2' x 4' x 20" lumber to build the arms of the bar
- Two blocks of 2' x 4' x 10" lumber to go as arm supports
- Two 2' x 4' x 20" long lumber for horizontal support
- One 1" x 24" steel pipe, which has threaded one end
- Two 45-degree 1" steel pipe connectors
- Two 1" x 6" steel pipes with threaded one end
- Two 1" piping clips with two wood screws for each
- 32 " x 1" lag bolts-washers
Step 1 - Bottom Extension and Vertical Posts
Take two large screws and washers with them, fix a bottom extension support at each of the vertical posts at their end. A quarter of the length of the board on a side and three quarters of the board on the other side is how the posts have to placed and fixed on the extension support.
Step 2 - Horizontal Support
Between the two vertical posts, there has to be a horizontal support. For that, connect that horizontal support at the base of the vertical posts with four lag screws and washers. There will be two washers on each end, attached at the base of the 'T' (which is upside down) of the vertical post and bottom extension. Now you will get 2 L-shaped pieces attached to the base. Then you will need to fix a horizontal support at the top of the vertical posts. To do that, you will have to use a couple of lag bolts and washers on each end.
Step 3 - Diagonal Supports
Now the next thing in line is to fix a couple of diagonal supports for each of the vertical posts. Attach an end using two lag bolts to the post. The other end has to be fixed to the bottom extension support by fixing two additional lag bolts.
Step 4 - Arming the Pull up Bar
The task coming up is to fix the arms to the top portion of the pull up apparatus, at the vertical supports. There will be one arm on each side. Again use lag bolts (2 for each arm) for securing and fixing the arms to the vertical posts. This has to be followed by fixing smaller arm supports to the basic arms fixed earlier and to the vertical posts too. Lag bolts will have to be used to build pull up bars.
Step 5 - Final Fix
A 6-inch pipe will have to be attached to a longer piece of the pipe with the help of 45 angle connectors. The bar actually will have to be constructed like this and then the bar will have to be fixed to the stand. Piping clips and wood screws will be used for this purpose, to finish the project of free standing pull up bar.
Congratulations! Now you know how to build a free standing pull up bar. Of course while reading it may seem a bit complicated, but I hope if and when you actually do it, it isn't too tough!
These bars are extremely portable and easy to use. Some of them can even be folded! If you build it yourself, you can get your workout without paying for it! I sign off here! Take care!
