Diy Door Frame Pull Up Bar

Door frames are already reinforced and sturdy.

Diy door frame pull up bar.

A hardware store will have the closet bar brackets and then buy a small box of screws there as well. Doorway pull up bars are simple pieces of gym equipment. Step 4 maintenance. Dyi pull up bar back in 2009 when i first started p90x i was using a doorway pull up bar not that much different than the p90x chin up bar.

These pull up bars only have 3 points of contact on your frame total. The disadvantage with this is that it will leave holes on your walls which is not preferable. If everything feels right you are ready to go. Once installation is complete pull down on the bar to make sure it is snug.

This video shows how i built a pull up bar from pvc. That worked well enough while i was working out in the various rooms in my house. Most bars require doorways to be 24 to 32 wide with the doorway trim molding up to 3 inches wide. Once i started working out in my garage about a year or.

It doesn t require a stud finder or extra two by four reinforcement. Start by drilling out holes with the diameter of the pullup bar at the desired height. This way most of the load is transfered to the ground. One downside with a door mounted pull up bar is that you need a suitably sturdy and sized door frame to mount the bar on.

Instead of pressuring the door frame by an expanding pullup bar or attaching all of the weight to the frame itself i always build pillars out of small wooden boards. Just use 2 inch long screws to mount so you go through the door jam and into the wood frame. Want to build a pull up bar that mounts to door frame. In this case install the door j brackets to fasten the pull up bar against the frame.

At the bottom i usually make a cutaway for the plinth. Closet bar brackets are small enough to fit in the door jam. The other points of contact would be on the opposite sides of your frame. You can screw this pull up bar directly into the exposed wood.

The mechanics of these pull up bars is pretty simple as well. The first would be on the very top lip of your door frame. Subscribe to my channel.