One of the best pieces of equipment for at-home workouts that you can do with your spouse and family is a pull-up bar. In this post, we’re going to share how to build your own high-quality home made pull up bar .
A pull-up bar doesn’t take up a lot of space, but the strength and conditioning benefits you will get from using this simple piece of equipment are amazing.
One simple way to do an at-home workout with your spouse is to rotate between doing push-ups and pull-ups. I like to call these 20/10. 20 push-ups and 10-pull-ups for 12 sets. Use different hand positions to change it up and work different parts of your upper body. If you don’t have the strength to do full pull-ups on your own, put your feet on a chair for assistance while you build up your back and arms.
Working out like this allows both of you to be in the same room supporting each other while increasing your recreational intimacy.
Build Your Own Pull-Up Bar – Materials List
Here’s what you are going to need for your DIY home made pull up bar like I demonstrated in the video:
(1) 48″ x 1″ Galvanized pipe
(2) 16″ x 1″ Galvanized pipes
(2) 1″ 90 Elbows
(2) 1″ Wall flanges
(8) 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ Bolts
(8) 1/4″ Hex nuts
(8) 1/4″ Lock washers
This might look great to you, but you’re saying to yourself that there is no room in your garage for something else. Well, you are in luck.
If you’d rather have something that’s not physically attached and can be used inside your home, you can also pick up a doorway chin-up bar that will be effective in getting you stronger.
Whichever pull-up bar you choose, you will be able to increase your strength as you spend quality time with your spouse. It doesn’t get much better than that!
Introducing: Challenge Workouts
Now you know how to build your pull-up bar, now what will you do with it?
The best program I’ve found for improving your pull ups and overall fitness are Shawna K’s Challenge workouts.
The Pull-up and Push-up Challenge Workouts you’ll do inside Shawna K’s program follow a PROVEN workout plan with shortcuts. So you’ll get almost instant improvement in your pull-up and push-up count – and not only that – her programs are also going to help you look awesome too!
The Push-up and Pull-up Challenge Workouts are perfect if you’re interested in…
- Getting back in shape and seeing almost instant strength improvements
- Impressing others by rattling off a round of pull-ups & push-ups
- Re-sculpting your body and developing the ideal athletic physique
- Losing fat and sculpting beautiful lean muscle from head to toe
- Dominating friends in workout contests
- Improving your PR in other lifts such as bench, deadlifts, presses and even squats.
- Gaining other’s respect and empowering yourself to a healthier lifestyle
- An intense and results driven workout program you can do anywhere.
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Dustin is a seasoned time management expert with a passion for helping busy families enjoy a healthy, happy life they love.
Tony is an experienced trainer, coach and speaker specializing in helping time-crunched parents get motivated and enjoy a fit lifestyle.
So awesome Tony!!! I could’ve used you when I was trying to figure out what to build in my basement! What kind of tape did you use? How is it helpful? This is a great tutorial and it looks like all that Insanity sure helped you build that bar FAST!!:)
Here is a link to the tape that I used, http://www.campmor.com/1-34-climbing-tape.shtml?source=CI&ci_sku=32812&ci_gpa=pla&ci_kw={keyword}. I like having the tape there as it allows for my hands to stick to the bar instead of slipping when my hands get sweaty.
Glad you enjoyed the video even though it was a little late for you to use.
Tony,
Great addition to the garage. DIY equipment makes it more fun.
I have a video making a Bulgarian Training Bag and Plyoboxes on my blog. I also built a pull-up bar and a second bar for gymnastics rings. That was prior to starting the blog check out the post on Crossfit – http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=50780
Fun stuff.
-Troy
Troy – Got to say I dig both of those videos you did. I think I’m going to make the Bulgarian Training Bag to start and begin to use it with some of my workouts. You have a great site there w/ loads of good info. We’ll need to connect.
How sturdy is this type of pull up bar if you were to do kipping pull ups? Also it looks like it would only work if you had boards laid flat because the wall flanges are so wide I don’t think they would hit the hole stud of a 2×4.
Hey Language Tutor,
The way that I have made this sturdy is that I have (6) 3″ screws on the flat boards to keep it in place. I have not had any issues with the pull up bar moving at all. My daughter is on it almost everyday and doing all sorts of moves on it.
You are correct on how to mount the pull up bar because of the wall flanges that I use for this one. If you have an open ceiling I would buy some boards and mount it that way.
Cheers.
Thanks for the reply. That helps to clarify. I watched several videos on youtube and I may end up trying a corner option but I’m not sure if I’ll have enough room.
Are you able to do a muscle up on that bar?
The corner pull up bars are cool. I didn’t have any corners in my garage to use as I only have one that could be used and there are cabinets there.
There is no way I could do a muscle up on this bar due to the boards overhead. The only way that I could would have been to make the vertical pipe longer so that I would have room. Problem with this is that I don’t like to bend my knees when doing my pull ups.
Good luck getting yours together. It took me some time to figure out the best option for my setup.
Cheers.