How to make a bar in the doorway

Take care of your health and perform a series of exercises to maintain the muscles in a tone everyone would like. But what if the work schedule is very stressful and there is absolutely no time for visiting the fitness club? Homemade bar will help you. In the doorway to establish such a construction is not very difficult.

You can use it to inflate the muscles of the hands, back, press and stretch the spine. And if there are children in the family, the bar in the doorway will become a necessary structure for attaching swings or gymnastic rings. We offer to your attention several options for manufacturing such a universal sports equipment.

Of course, you can always go to the nearest sports store and buy a ready model. The modern market of specialized equipment for sports offers a wide range. But it is much more interesting to independently manufacture and install a horizontal bar in the doorway.

In order to assemble the model in the first variant, you will need a thick shank for a shovel and a board about three centimeters thick. The solution is very simple. This model can withstand a weight of about one hundred kilograms and is manufactured within a couple of hours. To begin with, measure the width of the doorway at the correct height and put the marks on the doorpost. Saw a stick of the desired length from the handle. We cover it with varnish and let it dry.

Now we are preparing the fastener for the crossbar. To do this, cut out two rectangles from the board. Their short side is equal to the width of the door jamb, and the long side is three times the diameter of the crossbar. We place the blanks vertically, visually divide into three parts and make marks with a pencil.

In the center we set perpendicularly the cut and we circle. Focusing on the diameter of the circle, we draw two vertical lines. We have a rectangular blank, inside of which is drawn an elongated piece with a rounded bottom end. Using a jigsaw, gently cut it and sand the edges with sandpaper, increasing the opening by 2 millimeters on each side. Finished billets cover with varnish and dry.

Now it remains only to install a horizontal bar in the doorway. Focusing on the marks made on the doorpost, we put the workpiece so that it looks like an inverted letter "P" and screw it onto long screws in four places. Also we attach the second workpiece on the opposite side of the joint. Having located a crossbeam over fastenings, accurately we insert it into the made grooves.

A good and reliable crossbeam in the doorway is obtained from a metal pipe with a diameter of about 4 centimeters. To make it, you need a piece of pipe, which is six centimeters long than the width of the doorway. On each side of our billet we make four saws with a depth of three centimeters and get four small petals. With the help of the Bulgarian, we remove two of them.

We get a pipe, on each side of which there are two ears, located opposite each other. We bend them outward, forming an angle of 90 degrees. With the help of a drill, we drill in each eyelet one or two holes. Completely clean the workpiece from the old paint to the metal shine. If you use a metal, rather than a steel pipe, then after stripping it must be painted in the right color. Gently overlay the bar on the doorway and fastened with a long self-tapping screws. After that we enjoy with pleasure.

The horizontal bars and the crossbar, located in the doorway, have only one drawback. This model is perfect for sports activities for children. An adult will need to bend his legs to perform exercises involving pulling the body up. And the standard width of the doorway is too small. If you have large dimensions or high growth, then think about making a bar and then fixing it in the corridor.