Fans of a healthy lifestyle do not always have enough money and free time to visit the fitness center. Horizontal bars and other shells come to the rescue in the yard or in the nearest open area. But such facilities are far from everywhere, in addition, in the autumn-winter season, the weather has little to train in the fresh air.
Sooner or later, almost everyone thinks about how to make a horizontal bar at home and practice all year round at a convenient time and completely free of charge. After all, the horizontal bar is a universal simulator that allows you to train various muscle groups, moreover, it is compact, inexpensive and suitable for both adults and children.
Having become acquainted with the assortment of sports corners and Swedish walls in the sporting goods store, we begin to understand that all these wonderful complexes and simulators will occupy at least half of the room. They are designed, as a rule, for children of preschool and school age, for the weight and height of an adult men are not suitable, and not every family has a separate spacious children's room.
A better option is the Swedish wall, which is attached to any free wall, usually there is a set of additional removable suspensions and trainers for different muscle groups, including a removable horizontal bar, which is installed at any height for athletes of different heights. This is the most successful solution to the problem for the whole family.
If you are determined to save on the purchase of expensive sports equipment, or you have very little space at home, then you should think about how to make a horizontal bar in your apartment with your own hands.
Before you make a horizontal bar at home, you need to choose a suitable place. The horizontal bar, unlike the Swedish wall, takes up little space, but you should provide space for a free approach and a variety of exercises to avoid injuries and limited movement. Most often, a suitable place is in the hallway, a narrow corridor between the walls or in the doorway.
When deciding how to make a horizontal bar at home as convenient, compact and safe as possible, decide on its design. Typically, there are two types of wall-mounted horizontal bars for a house: stationary, rigidly fixed to the wall in the form of a console, and simply a crossbar "inserted" in the doorway or between the walls of a narrow corridor. Such a horizontal bar can be made removable so as not to interfere.
To make such a horizontal bar, you need a horizontal bar equal to the width of the opening at the height where you plan to fix the horizontal bar. You can take a wooden beam of circular cross-section (for example, a shank from a shovel), but more reliable - a metal pipe. The crossbar diameter should be suitable for a comfortable grip (approximately 3 cm). In addition, nests are required where the crossbar will be inserted. They can also be metal or wood.
Wooden nests are made of square bars or pieces of plywood 3-5 cm thick and 10 by 10 cm in size (or width in the size of the door jamb). In the upper part, semicircular holes are cut out with a jigsaw along the diameter of the crossbar, then the nests are fixed in the doorway using self-tapping screws. The crossbar is placed on top, if necessary, it is easily removed and removed.
If you chose a metal structure, then you should stock up on 10x10 cm plates, to which strips of metal (actually, nests), bent by the crossbar, are welded. Welding should only be done on the outside so that the pipe fits snugly into the socket. At the corners of the holder plates, holes for bolts with a diameter of 10 mm are drilled. The plates are attached to the wall with anchor bolts.
To prevent the horizontal bar from spinning in the sockets, you can drill the side holes in the crossbar and in the sockets and insert the pins or cut the threads and fasten to the bolts.
How to make a horizontal bar at home if you need to perform a variety of exercises, and not just pull yourself up? After all, the dimensions of the horizontal bar are limited by the doorway. In this case, the horizontal bar-console rigidly mounted on the wall will come to the rescue. Its dimensions are not tied to the width of the opening, in addition, the crossbar itself can be made with a extension in width, which will provide additional convenience.
The design of such a horizontal bar consists of a base and the crossbar itself. The base frame is welded from the profile (usually 50x30 mm), on the side it looks like two triangles 35-40 cm high and 40-50 cm wide (offset from the wall). Bolt holes are drilled in the frame (on the outside a slightly larger diameter than with internal to “drown” the bolt heads inward), then with the help of strong screws or bolts the structure is attached to the wall. A crossbar is attached to it (bolted or welded). The horizontal bar is ready.