The bar itself. Savings and Simplicity

Being athletic is not only fashionable, but also useful. Most people do not have enough free time to visit the gyms. In addition, the subscription to attend halls with modern simulators is not cheap. I wonder if it's possible to create your own gym for symbolic money at home. Can. We will discuss the question "the bar with our own hands". From what and how to make this tool to build muscle, and besides, with little or no investment.

Such a topic as "the bar with their own hands" is not without reason gaining great popularity on the Internet. The bar consists of only two elements - the neck and pancakes (disks). What is better to replace them? Let's start with the most popular and easy way. We know that the thickness of the neck should be at least 4 centimeters. The small diameter does not allow to make a normal grip and exercises can turn into not the most pleasant process. Replace the bar, taking into account important ergonomic conditions, you can use an ordinary shank from a shovel, rake, etc.

The discs for the bar also make it easy. One option is plastic bottles filled with ordinary water or sand. The weight of each such bottle can reach 4 kg. We need eight bottles. We fix with adhesive tape four bottles on each side of the neck. Do not feel sorry for the adhesive tape - the discs for the bar should not be loose. All work takes no more than an hour, and materials are more than available.

Among other recommendations how to make a barbell stands out is also the option where the discs of the bar are replaced by disks from a normal car. The variant though also interesting, but not the most accessible. Firstly, not everyone has two orphan car disks on the balcony or in the garage. Secondly, the bar needs a reinforcement of the appropriate diameter. Welding is required to bond these components. If all of the above you have, then you can, of course, start making.

As "pancakes" is also often recommended to use cement. All that is needed for their manufacture is free time, a form for disks and, in fact, cement itself. As a form, you can use both paint cans (for a small load) and buckets of putty (for serious exercises). The vulture needs to be inserted into the mold and wait until the cement has solidified. The second "pancake" can be done only after the readiness of the first. A little uncomfortable, and not fast. Complete drying takes place at least 24 hours. But the bar is made by own hands! This option is often called the "builder's bar". In the course are purely improvised means.

Often there is a variant with the use of pancakes as automobile tires. On the bar the yoke is most often attached, and a tire is hung on it. The rubber weighs a lot, about 10 kg. If this is not enough, then inside you can throw all kinds of iron. As a result, you can easily bring the weight of "pancake" to 30 kg. The bar with its own hands, made in this version, is popular with car owners. Sooner or later everyone has an extra pair of "wheels", which they do not want to throw out, and they do not want to put on the car. And then - a pretty thing! And the garbage in the garage is smaller, and the muscles are toned. An excellent version of the "beautiful" bar for those who have a garage packed with unnecessary parts of cars.

For manufacturing, you will need a threaded fitting , a hose and at least two old flywheels. If all these components are covered with rust during their long stay in the garage, then getting rid of it is quite simple. In stores there are a lot of special inexpensive chemicals. The hose is wound on the valve. This protects the hands from cuts on the thread and prevents slipping. It will be faster if the armature is smeared with oil, since winding the hose "on dry" is incredibly difficult. On both sides of the hose tighten the screws, but we expect that there should be room for the discs of the bar. The wheels are flywheels. To fix them, you can use a conventional nut or build a special detachable stopper. The view is simply amazing! It is the male bar. Convenience is that you can easily choose the weight that you need. Old flywheels can easily be bought "for a penny" in any SRT. And the main distinguishing feature of this design is compactness and mobility. The assembly-disassembly takes no more than two minutes.