Friday, February 27, 2009

Make Your Own Exercise Equipment

Make Your Own Exercise Equipment

Here is a great list of resources for making everything from Atlas Stones to Reverse hyper machines.
Enjoy. You may also like More DIY Strength Training Equipment Links

My favourite is the Glute Ham Raise, nice!

DIY Farmers Walk Bars

Brian’s Strength Training site



Equipment for Janda Sit-ups and other fun things.



Bryce’s site



Everything from bars to a belt squatting setup.



Building a Lifting Platform (Ironmind)

Randall J. Strossen



Now all you need is a set of bumper plates.



Building Your Own Set of Atlas Stones

Jason F. Keen



Making stones using an old - but effective - recipe of plaster, cement and water. And a couple of inflatable balls. A similar article appears at Body Results.



Crossfit Forum - Equipment



Some good discussion on the ins and outs of equipment, both store-bought and home-made.



Edgewalls - How to Build a Home Climbing Wall



Construction of a bouldering/traverse wall.



Fred the Head



Plastic shopping bags, pipe, a tennis ball and of course lots and lots of duct tape.



Gruntbrain’s Grotto



A forum for DIY gymrats everywhere.



Judo America



Building a spring loaded mat. Superb.



Lean & Hungry Fitness - GHR



If you’ve ever considered the idea of having your own Glute-Ham Raise, take a look at this. While you’re there, check out the home-made slammable medicine ball (based on instructions [.pdf, 1.21mb] from Pierre Augé).



Mission Specific Industries



Free instructions for building squat stands and plyometric boxes.



PE Digest - articles



Some great articles here, including Make Your Own 200m Track [.pdf, 204kb]



Plans for a home-made squat rack

Bill McBride



What more could you want?



Olympic Bar Measurements



Want to know the exact dimensions of that bar you’re about to transform? They’re all here.



Old Dude’s Garage Photo Page



Photos of various home-made equipment.



Highland Tools



How-to articles on construction of Hammers and Weight for Height/Distance equipment.



Joe Skopec - articles



Assorted DIY goodness including photographs of a home-made pulldown attachment and a Reverse Hyper bench for the rack.



Ross Enamait forum - Training Equipment



Some great ideas here (start in this thread). If you’re hungry for more, take a look at his articles on constructing (and using) a waterball and a sandbag [.pdf, 344kb].



Scottish Heavy Athletics



Notes on the construction of various Highland Games equipment.



This to That



Excellent advice on joining materials to other materials.



Tsampa.org



Construction history of many items in the outdoor Toffe’s Gym (which is in a superb forest setting, incidentally) including calf-training equipment, a heavy-duty bench and of course the power rack.Excellent stuff.



After reading those, it’s time for a trip to the nearest hardware store. Plenty of fun things to experiment with.




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