Homemade Strength Equipment

Homemade Strength/Fitness Equipment List

Fantastic resource from Synergy Athletics

Thick Handled Dumbbells

Thick Handled Dumbbells - Quick Fix Version

Homemade Ball Grips

Homemade Loading Pin

Find A Large Tire For Flipping

Medicine Ball

Sandbag Construction - Video

Waterball Construction

Pull-up Bar

Homemade Lifting Bars

Simple Glute Ham Raise Machine

T Handle For Swings

Adjustable Slosh Pipe

DIY: Olympic Weightlifting Platform

Rack Mounted Wrist Roller

How to Make Your Own Clubs

Homemade Agility Ladder

Double Ab Wheels - Make these TODAY.

Bumper Plates and Bar

Farmer’s Walk Bars

Atlas Stone Part I and Atlas Stone Part II - Another Atlas Stone Variation

Dip Bars, Farmers Walk Handles, Loading Pin and more.

A Handful of Grip Training Ideas

Homemade Tornado Ball

DIY Farmer Walk Bars

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DIY Tornado Ball

DIY Tornado Ball

The tornado ball/slam ball is a fantastic devices for improving core rotational strength and superb for developement of 'throwing' muscles.

Here are to Home made Tornado ball's.

Get slamming

Joe Hashey

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Homemade Clubbell

Homemade Clubbell

Great idea, nice and simple construction of a club with plumbing fittings!

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Homemade Squat Rack

Homemade Barbell Plates and Squat Rack

This really is DIY Strength - Homemade squat rack, nice work.

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Home Made Macebell

Home Made Macebell

Making a mace/macebell doesn't have to be really expensive.

I made up this macebell using an old 1" barbell, added some weights to the end with collars both above and below and that was it.

The macebell provides a fantastic workout for the core, shoulders and triceps.

There are many other ways to make a macebell/gada

The beauty of this one is that the weight is interchangable.

Check out here for another way to make a fixed macebell by Steve Maxwell

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Homemade Prowler

Homemade Prowler

The prowler is the mega beast of training equipment.

Give's you hell but you'll benefit from it

A fave of Joe Defrancos




See my own DIY|Homemade Prowler Sled which is probably the cheapest you'll find. Made only from scrap wood and old car tires

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Homemade T Handle

Home Made T Handle

Check out how to make this from Davedraper.com

This is a great idea, one I originally saw made by Dan John, I have welded one of these up so I can use some really big weights on it and also do strongman style duck walks. But this method is also goo. The following excerpt is from Dave Draper's Site.

Use this to build some serious posterior chain power

The swing is a simple and effective exercise for the posterior chain. It is a plyometric exercise, so it can be used to develop explosive power; it also uses a lot of the body's muscle and can be used with high repetitions to develop endurance. Currently, it is probably most commonly done with a kettlebell, in fact it is one of the most basic and useful kettlebell exercises. A kettlebell is superior to a dumbbell for swings because it has a narrower profile, which makes it easier to swing between the legs without bumping the shins or knees.

There is an even better device for two handed swings that is cheap and easy to make: the T-handle, a.k.a. the Hungarian Core Blaster. By "cheap and easy," I'm talking Paris Hilton here, less than $10 and five minutes. All you need is the equipment on this list, available at most any hardware store:

* one 3/4" pipe Tee fitting
* one 3/4" x 12" pipe nipple for the vertical shaft(a pipe nipple is a piece of pipe, threaded at both ends)
* two 3/4" x 4" pipe nipples for the "horns", or better, one 3/4" x 8" nipple cut in half
* one 3/4" floor flange

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