How To Make A Pull Up Bar In Your Garage

With this pull up bar in place you will be able to complete several home exercises for back muscles without compromising your results.

How to make a pull up bar in your garage.

I got it up there by myself no problem. This example is cut to 18 inches but it will vary depending on ceiling height and personal preference. If not just make sure you are stable. Side view of ceiling mount pull up bar.

I learned a lot on the first anchor so the second one went up very easily. Nice and strong but still required one more part of the assembly before any. Measure 3 inches from the bottom of the boards and use the 1 1 2 inch spade bit to make a hole in both boards. Once together i did a weight check.

The pull up is a great exercise to improve your fitness for tennis. Be safe getting the bar in the attic. Note in order to get the bar to come together the second anchor has to be install after you attach the pull up bar to the vertical 3 4 bar not before. These are dependent on the height of your garage ceiling and how you want to set up your pull up bar.

Here are some tips on how to make a pull up bar for your garage. For more tips on health and fitness check out the free. How to build a pull up bar. Measure out the length you will need to be able to do pull ups without smacking your face into the ceiling.

Cut boards cut two identical pieces of the 2 4 to the height at which you d like the bar to hang. Or you can do pull ups to where your head is going. Insert one 90 degree elbow into each end of the long bar. Using the instructions that have been detailed above you should be able to construct an awesome homemade pull up bar in your garage or house.

Insert shorter pipes into elbows so that they form a right angle to the longer bar. Get a friend to help you if you can. At a high level you need to secure the pull up bar to a 2 x4 or 2 x6 that is itself secured to your ceiling rafters joists using lag screws or carriage bolts. Instead of buying a cheap unstable door frame mounted pull up bar i decided that i would manufacture my own bar to mount to the ceiling in my garage.

Depending on your set up the attachment to the ceiling may be different. He said with a small amount of sheepishness.