[quote]chillain wrote:
there’s gotta be a local park or playground nearby with plenty of bars to hang from…[/quote]
many thanks for your advice guys
Is true, i have a park with pull up bars nearby and i would use them if I lived in a nice sunny country but I live in the UK and there is no way Im gonna train under the cold rain because for all i know the police might even detain you under the Mental Health Act section 136 for acting bizarrely and being a risk to yourself! leaving alone the neumonia risk!
The solution has to be indoors and in my gym so maybe buying a door pull up bar might be the answer but i was wondering whether that wont put too much pressure to my gym door frame given that it would have to take my weight? what do you guys think? (sorry if the question sounds stupid)
Thanks again
[quote]DanErickson wrote:
Why are you goign to wait to buy a pullup bar? You can buy a good one for $20 and install it in a doorway or rafters in the basement or probably a billion other places.[/quote]
The bar seems like a good idea and i will buy it if i have no choice but I didnt wanna buy anything that would become irrelevant once I buy my heavy duty squat rack with proper pull ups which Im definitively buyng next summer
I thought that 10 months is not such a long time and i could get away without the door bar if i learned new exercises.
If I’m left with no choice i will buy the door bar
The incline bench row sounds good i should add that to my routine next month, many thanks for the suggestion and please keep the advice coming guys
[quote]mavrcksurfer69 wrote:
If youre free to do what you want to your back yard then its easy. Go to home depot and for a few bucks buy two 4x4s 8 ft long, also get a nice piece of pipe. You need a drill with a circular bit and some post diggers… bam pull up bar for cheap. If you want to fork out an extra 20 bucks you can get some quickcrete to fill in the post holes and make it even nicer.[/quote]
Thanks for the idea mate and I could do that but as i said outdoors training is not the clever thing to do in grey cold raining England. Same reason why i wouldnt use my garden trees (if I had any) as Iron Dwarf suggested
Again mates many thanks for the advice
[quote]Natan2007 wrote:
Thanks for the idea mate and I could do that but as i said outdoors training is not the clever thing to do in grey cold raining England.[/quote]
Well, good luck with the backyard gym then.
Hang a loop of thick stiff rope somewhere and do pull ups on that. It’s easy to install and puts your arms in a more comfortable position IMO.
[quote]pro-a-ggression wrote:
postholedigger wrote:
The doorway pullup bars that you can just put in place and take down after use would seem like a good solution. I don’t know if they’re as common in the UK but here in the US they cost about $30.
Hahahahaha i find it funny your name is “postholedigger” and everybody is talking about digging post holes for setting pullups bars in.
Just a coincidence?[/quote]
Yeah, it really is just coincidence. I’ve just always thought that post hole diggers were the coolest manual digging tool. I’ve found them really useful for digging in a way that a shovel never could. The fact that noone else thought so enough to use it as their user name was just a bonus 
[quote]Natan2007 wrote:
mavrcksurfer69 wrote:
If youre free to do what you want to your back yard then its easy. Go to home depot and for a few bucks buy two 4x4s 8 ft long, also get a nice piece of pipe. You need a drill with a circular bit and some post diggers… bam pull up bar for cheap. If you want to fork out an extra 20 bucks you can get some quickcrete to fill in the post holes and make it even nicer.
Thanks for the idea mate and I could do that but as i said outdoors training is not the clever thing to do in grey cold raining England. Same reason why i wouldnt use my garden trees (if I had any) as Iron Dwarf suggested
Again mates many thanks for the advice [/quote]
Then take two tires, set one 4x4 in the middle of each. Pour the concrete into the tires and let it set around the posts. Drill your holes, run the bar through and you have a pull up station you can somewhat disassemble andstuff in the corner when your done. Just be sure you put cardboard under the tires before you pour.
[quote]Natan2007 wrote:
Thanks for the idea mate and I could do that but as i said outdoors training is not the clever thing to do in grey cold raining England. Same reason why i wouldnt use my garden trees (if I had any) as Iron Dwarf suggested
Again mates many thanks for the advice [/quote]
[quote]Natan2007 wrote:
Hi guys
I have now built a gym in my backyard and it has been the best decision ever since i started weight training nearly a couple of years ago.Natan[/quote]
…doesn’t compute
[quote]brian.m wrote:
Natan2007 wrote:
Thanks for the idea mate and I could do that but as i said outdoors training is not the clever thing to do in grey cold raining England. Same reason why i wouldnt use my garden trees (if I had any) as Iron Dwarf suggested
Again mates many thanks for the advice
Natan2007 wrote:
Hi guys
I have now built a gym in my backyard and it has been the best decision ever since i started weight training nearly a couple of years ago.Natan
…doesn’t compute
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Lol, I should have explained that in my backyard I built a shed, I put (240v) electricity by extending the power (via an armoured cable) from my kitchen, I floored the shed with gym tiles and inside the shed I installed an X-trainner for warming up i built a little shelving system for the freeweights, the bars, and the supplements, I have a little very old tv/dvd player where I can litsen to music while I workout, I also have an old an in case it gets too hot, so is like kind of a gym for me
But then I tought that saying “I built a gym my backyard” was much shorter
Sorry for the confusion and let me attach some pics of the complete thing in my next message after I download them because I really recommend it because is so cheap to build and so much better than commercial gym memberships
sorry here r the pics finally
Inverted rows off your bench and the beams in your garage would work. If you have a garage
You should be able to use a door frame pullup bar without any problems, unless you’re doing seriously weighted pullups. I used one for a couple years before moving to a commercial gym, and it worked great.
Don’t know if anyone already said this. Load one end of your pressing bar, stick the empty end in the corner your shed. Straddle it and start rowing. Cheap t bar.
Tree branch - free
monkey bars at the park - free
rope hanging from ceiling - cheap
chinup bar - $20
making excuses, being lazy, creating a thread to explain why you are not doing chins, say you will buy a rack with a chin up attachment - priceless
[quote]ucallthatbass wrote:
Tree branch - free
monkey bars at the park - free
rope hanging from ceiling - cheap
chinup bar - $20
making excuses, being lazy, creating a thread to explain why you are not doing chins, say you will buy a rack with a chin up attachment - priceless[/quote]
lol funny lol
- Exercise balls… Multiple!?
- Cardio machine?
Seems like you can afford to make yourself a pull up station outside like suggested already. If you say that you can’t do that outside because of the rain you’re a fucking pussy.
Go out, do a set, get back inside, rest and get back. Bring a towel to dry off the bar everytime or else you’ll slip.
Plus you can tell your friends you do pullups outside in the rain.
Doing pull-ups in a cold rainy day = BADASS. Plus its free homie. Untill you can buy your rack, I think that will do for now.
