DIY PVC QuickSwing for Baseball

Homemade Quickswing

What a great device for training your baseball swing, the Joe Mauer Quickswing is a device you can use to train for baseball alone. The pipe delays the ball allowing you set yourself up to strike the baseball.

At 79.95 I reckon you could make this thing for about a quarter of that price. Just put a kink in the pipes like the guy in the video has done. Check it out.






On the subject of Baseball, Jedd Johnson's awesome resource for developing your forearms for baseball, got released today. Check it out at
Ultimate Forearm training for Baseball

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Homemade Equipment - Awesome Resource

Check out this awesome resource from www.home-gym-bodybuilding.com for HOMEMADE GYM EQUIPMENT

The items here all top quality Homemade Exercise Equipment Items. Enjoy

Homemade rowing machine

I had most of the material to build this already, but to build it from scratch would cost under $80.

Homemade calf raise block

A new calf raise block costs $40, this one $8.

Homemade T-bar row

Utilizing your power rack, make your own T-Bar row.

Homemade calf raise machine

Attach this to any power rack.

Homemade pullup bar for a Powertec P-PR Power Rack

There are plenty of complaints about the bent pullup handles that come with this rack.

Add a straight pullup bar to it.

Homemade 45° hyperextension bench. Attachments for an Ironmaster super bench

Using PVC fittings, convert most any incline bench into a hyperextension machine.

Homemade medicine ball

Using an old basketball and sand, save $$

Homemade forearm exerciser

I made this using items I had lying around the house.

Homemade micro weights

What the heck are homemade micro weights?

Homemade power rack

Save $ by building your own power rack out of wood with these detailed plans.

Homemade weight vest

Make your own and save BIG money

Homemade heavy bag stand

Homemade heavy bag stand using a power rack

Homemade Ab Coaster Isolation Strap

Ab coaster isolation strap, an effective way to isolate your upper body and concentrate the focus only on the abs.

Homemade power rack pins

Make a second set of power rack pins out of pipe fittings.

Homemade power rack plate holder

Make a power rack plate holder out of pipe fittings and pvc.

Homemade spider curl bench

Use PVC fittings and a Ironmaster super bench

Homemade rope pull-ups

Rope pull-ups using your power rack and a thick manila rope. Build your grip strength.

Homemade dumbbell spotting system

A safe way to lift heavy.

More homemade weight lifting equipment.

The best I have seen on the internet!

Homemade supplements

Make your own at home and save big money!

Homemade quad blaster

This simple device will blast your quads!

Homemade Ab Pavelizer or Janda sit up

Come on, try and do one!

Homemade seated calf raise machine

Make your own homemade seated calf raise machine using a Powertec power lever L-PL

Homemade multipurpose weight lifting handle

Use this for the perfect pull up.

Homemade belt squat

Homemade belt squat will help your barbell squatting form.

Homemade thick bar

Want better hand and forearm development? Train with thick handled barbells or dumbbells

Homemade pinch grip

Increase your thumb strength!

Homemade hack squat machine

All you need is a rack and a barbell and you'll be able to give your entire lower body a sound thrashing

Homemade powertec leverage arm block

Position the leverage arm so you can start your lift from the top!

Homemade hyperextension Roman Chair

Hyperextensions are a very effective lower back exercise.

Weight lifting bench refurbishing.

Turn a good deal into a new bench.

Homemade reverse hyperextension

The reverse hyper is a great exercise for targeting your posterior chain which comprises of the lower back, glutes, and hamstrings.

Homemade weight lifting bench

Homemade weight lifting bench with a unique two piece design.

Homemade deadlifting platform

Nothing fancy, just a rock solid platform that will hold up over time.

Homemade hand grip machine

Built with spare exercise machine parts and wood.

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DIY Dumpster Training

Need a prowler but haven't got the time to make one? There's always something just around the corner you can use instead!

Check out Defranco and crew, putting their heads together and coming up with this great idea for a DIY Fitness Workout with a Dumpster. Used as a finisher for any Strongman style workout it's always gonna be a winner!



Another great rubbish bin version of this would be the good old 'Wheelie Bin', fill with heavy stuff and you've all of a sudden got a great device for an impromptu strength/fitness workout

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Homemade Prowler Sled

DIY Homemade Prowler Sled


Knocked up a Homemade Prowler|Homemade push sled for a few quid at the weekend.

Used a couple of car tyres (one of which was a tyre sled in a former life, made by Pat Hodgson of HMGS - check out the tyre with the eye in the front/weight discs can be stacked inside via a welded bar resting on a piece of wood slotted inside)

No real need to explain what has been done to make this if you use 2 standard size car tyres, wood can be held against tyres to get sizes and then holes drilled into rubber (careful with this/I used a drill bit for wood), I've used long bolts to secure the wood to the tyre and used screws and bolts to attach the wood to individual pieces.

To create the handles I bored a hole about 25mm right through the wood and used some old dumbbell handles.

As you can see from the pics, weight can be stacked on top and also in the front tyre.


I tried my DIY Prowler out in my garage and works great on a hard concrete surface, but not really at all on grass.

I made this after being inspired by Chris Beardsley's Make Your Own Sled article from Garage Gym Online which is incidently a good place to start if you fancy making your own Strongman Sled.

If your stuck for exercises for sled training then you should check out Jedd Johnson from the Diesel Crew's Ultimate Sled Training Manual

Check out another awesome DIY-Homemade Prowler Sled

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DIY|Homemade Gym Equipment|Homemadestrength review

HomemadeStrength DVD review

A while back Jedd Johnson and Joe Hashey brought out the Homemade Strength equipment video.

I bought it at the time and have made a couple of the items. Since it's a great resource brought to us by some very knowledgable guys who are pretty much leaders in Homemade Strength Equipment Niche, I thought I'd share a few of my thoughts on this great product.

Although there are some great free resources on the net for DIY Strength gear/Homemade Gym Equipment I think the Homemade Strength Video is well worth the low cost of $27 for the amount that it will save you once you've made all the low cost strength equipment from it.

Without revealing too much of what's demonstrated in the video's I'll say is that the Homemadestrength equipment online DVD will allow you to train all areas of your body and develop grip, explosive power, posterior chain and upper body strength for a fraction of the cost of buying branded equipment.

The equipment I have built have allowed me to blast my glutes, hams and lower back to new levels of strength and power and the other has really assisted my grip strength and forearm power (any clues!)

Check it out here

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Furniture Glider Pads Training DIY

Furniture Glider Pads DIY Training from Ross Enamait

Ross Enamait has found a truly awesome DIY Fitness training tool in the shape of 'furniture gliders'.

Normally used for aiding moving furniture across carpets, Ross uses them for fitness training.

Check out the video where he demonstrates many exercises that'll give anyone of any fitness level a superb workout. These look especially like they'll blast your core.

These 'furniture sliders/gliders' will only set you back about $10 or £6

To buy in the UK I found this link 'furniture sliders'

Check out Ross' original post for details for the US



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzhrM_vPI5I

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DIY Grip Tools by Jason Steeves

Cheap DIY Grip Tools

Grip training should be a part of all athletes/trainers exercise regimen and doesn't have to cost the earth to do.

Jason Steeves of Shoggoth Basement is a seasoned grip trainer from Alberta, Canada with a keen interest in manufacturing his own grip implements.

Here are some of Jason's Grip/Training Achievements

505# Conventional Deadlift
405# ATG Squat
305# Bench Press
36kg Kettlebell Bottom up Press
46# Legacy Blob Deadlift
17.5# Sledgehammer Lever to Nose
172.5# Euro Pinch - Workout #5
Closed Ironmind #3 Gripper
MashMonster 0
B/H FBBC 3X Oldschool
2" V-bar - 190#
1" V-Bar - 260.75#
145# Rolling Thunder (I Suck)
Reverse Bend - 6" x 1/4" gr 5 & 80d
Half Playing Card Decks - Sabers, Caravans, Mavericks, Bee's, Bikes and a Mini Deck!
180' a SCF "1 Lite

Some of Jason Steeves grip tools are shown below.

The one that caught my eye the most is a device that Jason calls the wrist rocker, a forearm and wrist strengthener which is similar in design to an old style football rattle. Weight can be added to the end to increase resistance. This device is great for rehab to injury, good for warming up and at the top end a briliant device for armwrestling and grip ad forearm endurance.




If you have access to a welder or are pretty good with your imagination (alternative materials) then you can have a go at building one of these. Jason provided us with the necessary component parts below.




Jason Steeves Wrist rocker:Loading pin individual parts - 3" of 1" Cold RollHandle Core - 8" of 1" Cold RollHandle - 7.25" of NPS 1" Sch. 40 PipeArm - 9" of 1" x 3/8" Flat BarHandle Locking Washers - 1-3/4" with a 1" CentreHandle Washer - 2-1/2" with a 1.315" Centre

Also, in Jason's arsenal of grip tools are the pinch lever and the pinch grip trainer. The pinch lever requires some welding gear but the pinch grip trainer could easily be made using equipment found at your local hardware store.


Pinch Lever













Pinch Grip Trainer



DIY Grip training equipment is quite possibly as good if not better than off the shelf equipment.

If you don't have what it takes to build equipment like this or really don't have anyone to help you then take a look around you and find objects that could be hard to lift... think bricks, blocks, bags of sand, rocks, thick wood with weights attached, weighted plate discs, carpet wrapped around a dumbbell/kettlebel handle....etc just keep thinking and trying new stuff out and you'll discover some amazingly testing and useful grip equipment


There are always options, check out some of these articles to help
DIY Rolling Thunder
DIY Wrist Roller
DIY Ball Grip Pull Ups

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