Competition : Home-made gym equipment

Scott Birdby Scott Bird | April 11, 2007
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Photo by Joseph P. McClainI’ve come across some great home-made gym gear over the past few years (check out DIY : Home-made gym equipment I and II), as well as having a go at creating my own. However, I’m always on the lookout for more; and this is where you come in.

Competition

Construct something for use in your workouts. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a sandbag, a squat rack or a full-blown all-in-one machine. The only constraint is that is has to be constructed between now and May 30 2007. No old stuff, please.

To submit it, either :

or

Prizes

The prize list includes some great stuff from the guys over at the Diesel Crew (including a t-shirt and their superb ebooks); as well as a couple of mystery items from Straight to the Bar. More details over the next few weeks.

Judging

The judging will be done by you, the reader (via a poll). In the case of a tie, I’ll cast the deciding vote.

Finally

The most important part of this exercise is to enjoy the equipment you’ve just built. Have fun.


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Discussion

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Comments

1
Tim
April 13, 2007 7:55 AM

Here’s a farmer’s walk bar:

http://www.discussfitness.com/forums/attachments/f9/2688d1176260143-tims-2007-omnipotent-man-dude-training-log-farmers-walk-bar.jpg

As far as construction tips, I think it’s kind of apparent if you can see the picture…galvanized pieces, screwed together. I got the hardware store to cut the pipe to the sizes I wanted, and all the attachment pieces just came out of the bins they keep this stuff in. The handle is 1”, and the plate loading part is 1.5”. You need pipe wrenches to get it all together.

The center sections are 18” long, but it would probably have been easier to make the handle 18.5” or maybe even 19” - the connectors for the 1.5” stuff are meatier, so I had to screw that stuff in quite tightly or else the handle wouldn’t reach.

The pair of bars cost $98.

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Casey
June 14, 2007 3:19 AM

Looking for a good homemade weight sled. I saw a post on another site where a guy bought an aluminum snow disk (yes, the sliding down the hill kind), put a weight pin in it and used that. Said he had good results. Anyone ever try this? Have something better? I’m not a welder so simple is better. Thanks.

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Scott
June 14, 2007 8:40 AM

Casey,

it depends on how you’re going to use it. The closest I’ve seen to the type you mentioned is this DIY Tyre Sled over on the Ross Training forums; personal favourite is the one in the large photo on this page.

Do you want something you can add a lot of weight to, or something that will just give you a bit of a challenge when doing conditioning work?

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