Overview
With all of today's modern muscle-building machines, we've forgotten about the simple exercise equipment. A chinning bar, or what's commonly referred to as a chin-up bar, is a simple piece of pipe hung high across doorways and from ceilings that allows the user to pull themselves up using muscles from the arms, shoulders, back and stomach. Chinning bars are fairly simple to make, and unlike the multi-gadget exercise equipment seen out there today, chinning bars are relatively inexpensive.
How to Make a Doorway Chinning Bar
Step 1
Start by taking your 24-inch piece of steel and screwing it in to a t-joint on both ends. Screw your 2-inch extensions to the opposite side of the t-joints. Screw the 45-degree elbows on to the 2-inch extension so that they are pointing in a downward direction, then take two of the 6-inch pieces of steel and screw these in to the other end of the 45-degree elbows. You now have the bar.
Step 2
Take the two 3-inch pipes and screw them in to the t-joints so they are running perpendicular to the bar. Attach an another t-joint to the end of the 3-inch pipes. Out of the other side of the t-joint, screw in the 5-inch pieces of pipe. The pipe should now extend away from the bar far enough to cover the thickness of the door frame. Where the t-joint is, screw in the two remaining 6-inch pieces of pipe and cover them with the pipe insulation. These will sit on the chinning bar wall to hold it in place. The pipe insulation is there so the bar doesn't damage the wall.
Step 3
Put 90-degree elbows on the free ends of both 5-inch pipe so that they are facing up. Screw your two 4-inch pipes in to the elbows and then add two more 90-degree elbows to the opposite end of the 4-inch pipes. The elbows should be pointing back towards the chinning bar when you are finished. Cover the ends of the elbow with duct tape. These will rest above the sill on the opposite side of the door frame.
Step 4
Tape your handles with cloth tape. Use padding if you like. The chinning bar should now mount through the door frame, the 6-inch pipe with insulation holding the bar in place while the elbows on the other side hook up over the door frame.
With all of today's modern muscle-building machines, we've forgotten about the simple exercise equipment. A chinning bar, or what's commonly referred to as a chin-up bar, is a simple piece of pipe hung high across doorways and from ceilings that allows the user to pull themselves up using muscles from the arms, shoulders, back and stomach. Chinning bars are fairly simple to make, and unlike the multi-gadget exercise equipment seen out there today, chinning bars are relatively inexpensive.
How to Make a Doorway Chinning Bar
Step 1
Start by taking your 24-inch piece of steel and screwing it in to a t-joint on both ends. Screw your 2-inch extensions to the opposite side of the t-joints. Screw the 45-degree elbows on to the 2-inch extension so that they are pointing in a downward direction, then take two of the 6-inch pieces of steel and screw these in to the other end of the 45-degree elbows. You now have the bar.
Step 2
Take the two 3-inch pipes and screw them in to the t-joints so they are running perpendicular to the bar. Attach an another t-joint to the end of the 3-inch pipes. Out of the other side of the t-joint, screw in the 5-inch pieces of pipe. The pipe should now extend away from the bar far enough to cover the thickness of the door frame. Where the t-joint is, screw in the two remaining 6-inch pieces of pipe and cover them with the pipe insulation. These will sit on the chinning bar wall to hold it in place. The pipe insulation is there so the bar doesn't damage the wall.
Step 3
Put 90-degree elbows on the free ends of both 5-inch pipe so that they are facing up. Screw your two 4-inch pipes in to the elbows and then add two more 90-degree elbows to the opposite end of the 4-inch pipes. The elbows should be pointing back towards the chinning bar when you are finished. Cover the ends of the elbow with duct tape. These will rest above the sill on the opposite side of the door frame.
Step 4
Tape your handles with cloth tape. Use padding if you like. The chinning bar should now mount through the door frame, the 6-inch pipe with insulation holding the bar in place while the elbows on the other side hook up over the door frame.
