Wall mounted pull up bar.
Homemade chin up bar wall mounted.
Our latest addition to the home gym makeover is this diy pull up bar.
The primary piece of equipment that you ll need is a galvanized pipe.
The pull up bar position allows you to use this as a normal bar with a wide 38 inch grip.
Better yet find your studs and make your rig the right width to correspond with anchoring it to your studs behind the drywall.
Wall mounted pull up bars are generally far sturdier than their door mounted cousins.
Only do this if you know how to embed beefy drywall anchors.
The bolts go into the wall horizontally but the weight of your body pulls against them vertically.
The merax wall mounted pull up bar can be mounted in two orientations.
Merax wall mounted pull up bar merax.
However a 1 inch pipe is safer though more expensive and more difficult to find.
For anyone that plans a total lift weight body weight plus any weighted vests or weight belts of 200 pounds or less a 3 4 inch pipe diameter is likely sufficient.
The second method we re going to talk about is the wall mounted pull up bar.
How to build a ceiling or wall mounted pull up bar.
A ceiling mounted pull up bar is a perfect addition to a home gym.
Here is a detailed tutorial to make your own.
Then the bar can also be turned 90 degrees and hung on the wall so that you can use the padded back and arm supports for intense ab and chest workouts while reducing pressure.
Even if you re not a pull up ninja i found that a ceiling mounted pull bar offers additional features uses equipment that doesn t even require doing one pull up making it a great all around addition to.
A great thing about this homemade pull up bar is the 90 degree angle between the mounting mechanism and the force you will apply to it.