MixmasterNash
12-18-2004, 11:16 AM
Here are some pics of my (mostly) home-made grip/strength training equipment.
The first shows a Bachar ladder, named after the climber, which is made from nylon rope and pvc. The pvc has an external diameter of 1.75". I haven't actually used this yet, so I'm a loser.
The second shows some bars. The top, white bar, is a galvanized pipe covered in cloth tape and filled with sand. It's probably 15-20lbs. I use it for all sorts of levering, like a sledge. The middle dowel with the chain attached was intended to be used for dowel lifting, but I still don't have any weights. It went unused until I hooked it to my chining bar and did some one arm BW rows with it. Awesome exercise. The bottom bar is a dowel for wrist roll-ups, and I've never used it because I've been doing roll ups on the PVC over my chinup bar.
The third shows two CoC grippers, a Trainer and #1, and two ~40lb sandbags.
The forth shows my climbing hangboard by Franklin, and my chinup bar. The big PVC pipe is 3.5" ext. dia. and hard as hell to do a pullup on. I can rep with mixed grip; underhand is impossible; overhand, I can get one or so. Underneath is a 1.75" pvc bar covering the actual metal chinup bar. Pretty quick and easy to switch out the pvc tubes.
Last are my gymnastics "rings," which have the most training potential. They are 1.75" ext. dia. pvc tubes connected via cordlette (the red strings) to the gree tubular webbing. I have a ton of webbing, and I could probably string these up to a 20' tree branch. These are fully and precisely adjustable, with the auto-clamping mechanism you can see at the very bottom. Pullups are pretty easy, but dips are very difficult. I 'm working on muscle ups at the moment.
Did I waste an inordinate amount of time and effort making this stuff? If the goal was simply the equipment, then probably, yes. However, I really, really like making stuff so it was rather enjoyable. And it was all rather cheap. Two two CoC grippers or the hangboard cost about as much as everything else put together.
The first shows a Bachar ladder, named after the climber, which is made from nylon rope and pvc. The pvc has an external diameter of 1.75". I haven't actually used this yet, so I'm a loser.
The second shows some bars. The top, white bar, is a galvanized pipe covered in cloth tape and filled with sand. It's probably 15-20lbs. I use it for all sorts of levering, like a sledge. The middle dowel with the chain attached was intended to be used for dowel lifting, but I still don't have any weights. It went unused until I hooked it to my chining bar and did some one arm BW rows with it. Awesome exercise. The bottom bar is a dowel for wrist roll-ups, and I've never used it because I've been doing roll ups on the PVC over my chinup bar.
The third shows two CoC grippers, a Trainer and #1, and two ~40lb sandbags.
The forth shows my climbing hangboard by Franklin, and my chinup bar. The big PVC pipe is 3.5" ext. dia. and hard as hell to do a pullup on. I can rep with mixed grip; underhand is impossible; overhand, I can get one or so. Underneath is a 1.75" pvc bar covering the actual metal chinup bar. Pretty quick and easy to switch out the pvc tubes.
Last are my gymnastics "rings," which have the most training potential. They are 1.75" ext. dia. pvc tubes connected via cordlette (the red strings) to the gree tubular webbing. I have a ton of webbing, and I could probably string these up to a 20' tree branch. These are fully and precisely adjustable, with the auto-clamping mechanism you can see at the very bottom. Pullups are pretty easy, but dips are very difficult. I 'm working on muscle ups at the moment.
Did I waste an inordinate amount of time and effort making this stuff? If the goal was simply the equipment, then probably, yes. However, I really, really like making stuff so it was rather enjoyable. And it was all rather cheap. Two two CoC grippers or the hangboard cost about as much as everything else put together.