Hughser wrote:me being a dippy git at times, have put one of those bars up for a mate of mine, wanted to try it out see if my craftsmanship was any good - put it right under the doorframe... whaam - got a splitting headache and thats not all to boot!!!
Brillliant stuff, I love this comedy
I reckon it needs some kind of widening caps to put on the little thin bar ends that hook on the opposite side to the bar, to spread the load. If you had plasterboard walls I reckon you could have a mouth full of plaster and a busted nose and cheekbones before you could even take both feet off the ground, not to mention a very cross other half.
all that to see nurse Frauline Vanderkopf standing over you with a needle primed for your tender b'ind?
much easier to goto the pub on a friday night, get a lil sozzled so the goggles are on and look for the big butch blonde in the corner
Looks good! I would buy one, but I bought one of those pull ups bars from Argos instead. Thing is, me Mum wouldnt let me install in in my doorway, so I had to suspend it from the garage roof with some paracord! Its good....but I tend to get in the 'swing' of it literally! I end up doing swinging pullups! haha!
Here is the dual A-frame beast I constructed to do chinups (Yes I do have too much time on my hands!). It is minimal kit and can hold several hundred KG!. The good thing about it is that you can do full length chinups without tucking you knees back as the bar is about 8 ft high. the bad part is the bar gets kind of slippery in the rain! on with the mitts!. I have taken the black tape off the bar as it made it too slippery in the wet.
If anyone was after doing the same I reckon you could sweet talk a local scaffold yard into lending you the kit, maybe for free, or a small charge loan else they may sell you the kit. I reckon you could buy the stuff for around £50 or less if the tube and fittings were old. the only problem is that you need somewhere to put it. You will need:
4 x 4ft tube
8 x 5ft tube
4 x sleeves
6 x swivels
4 x doubles
The bar is a great talking point (Especially during BBQ's!), everyone who comes around wants to test their might by giving it a go.
I had a bar from argos, put it against my wall to my other wall (theres kind of a tiny corridour entrance to my room and its plastered). Ended up putting two holes in the wall each side of the bar, mother wasnt to happy
Now its in between mine and next doors house in the ally way, its been there for about a year now rusting away but I still use it and its going strong
About throwing dumbelss, my friend got his arm broken trying to catch one, that my other mate threw out the window (from upstairs) for him to catch
That looks good but I can see the top piece of wood on the opposite side of the frame (the bit it hooks onto) coming flying off in spectacular fashion if I started chinning up on that.
The Wedge: Nice frame but fukin hell, takes up a bit of room doesn't it? My mother would do her nut if I set that up one afternoon before she came in from work!
I don't have a proper chinup bar, I use a barbell which is wedged over a door and then secured under the top of the door. It's secured by opening the door so it's removable in seconds.
lodgi wrote:The Wedge: Nice frame but fukin hell, takes up a bit of room doesn't it?
I wasn't joking when I called it a beast . I guess it depends how big your garden is though. The base is 5x4 feet. I live in a shared student house and my other housemates use it so it was not a problem
lodgi wrote:My mother would do her nut if I set that up one afternoon before she came in from work!
Try a little social engineering with her, extend the top bar out each side a little and put some hanging baskets on each end, mums are suckers for these. Also consider a detachable swing in the middle (if you have younger brothers or sisters).
While we are on this subject, if anyone has any photos or descriptions of the most dangerous pullup bar/training equipment/training they have seen then show/tell all. I fancy a laugh.
I saw a guy in the gym doing some standing weight lifts from the floor, the thing is, his legs we completly straight and his back was bent right forward. I could see his spine about to snap with the weight. I am sure I learned to bend my knees and keep my back straight in P.E class when I was about 12, this guy must have grown up in a cave, the idiot.
I have the Powerbar mentioned in the first post and it is pretty good.
I did have concerns about it when it arrived as it does look thin, the reckon it will take 16st of weight though (I weigh just over 12).
The pressure put on downwards on the of the door architrave is minimal, the way it is designed transfers the pressure forward to the lower bar making it pretty sturdy.
The only one bad thing I have found with it is that the folding arms on it do not lock very well when you pack it away (this is not a major problem for me though).
Oh yeah, if you are going to buy it get some gloves with it as the smaller bar size rubs your hands more than other bars I have tried.
