[quote]LoRez wrote:
Did you ever figure out what to do about the rings?
I don’t know how handy you are, or how comfortable you are making changes to your apartment, but ceiling joists are plenty strong to support you if all you’re doing are pullups on them.
Get some “screw eyes” (an eyebolt with a screw) from Home Depot or Lowe’s, that are #6 or bigger, drill pilot hole smaller than the diameter of the bolt in the center of one of the joists (assuming you can locate the joists on the ceiling), and screw the eyebolt in all the way. Hook the straps from the rings through a spring clip rated for 400+ lbs (the hardware store ones have ratings), and hook that into the eyebolt.
When you’re ready to move out, unscrew the eyebolts, patch over the holes with some spackling, and paint it if you need to.
It shouldn’t at all be an issue, but if, for whatever reason, one of the eye screws slips out, you can always get a bigger one and put it in the same hole.[/quote]
I’ve just been taking them to my university gym and strapping them onto the pull-up bar. Works for now.
Your advice is really good, I suppose I’m just a little paranoid about getting docked on my security deposit whenever I move out (and it’s unlikely that I will live in this apartment past summer 2016; either my GF will be moving here and we’ll be moving into a bigger place, or we’ll be moving to another city). If I knew I’d be staying 5+ years, I might be more inclined to do that and just eat whatever they charge me, but I know the lease has language about not drilling any holes in the walls and ceilings and I don’t feel like paying whatever ridiculous charge for violating that. I’ll wait til I own a place and build something nice then.
I’ve thought about asking the building maintenance guy if we could bolt something to the underside of the stairwell on the first floor of the building. If he was willing (or if he’d let me do it), I could probably hang something down there and use it for pull-ups.