I've been wanting to add pullups to my workouts. Being unable to do any is just not acceptable. But the only decent place I had to do them was the swingset in the backyard and I simply didn't make it back there very often. I've been wanting to mount a pullup bar somewhere in the house or garage. Our garage is drywalled, though, including the ceiling, so nothing jumped out at me there. And I didn't really want to spend money on a pull up bar, either (or, rather, Christine didn't want me to ;-).Then I started thinking about the attic access in our hallway. And those straps I used to use for strapping a cartop carrier to the roof...
Definite potential. Straps connected to joists in the attic and just about even. Now where am I going to get rings?
They're like 50$ to buy. Or you can make your own by heating and bending PVC, but that's a little too much work...
Hold on. Simple handles will do the trick. Cut a spare length of steel pipe in half...
Presto:
Available any time, throw 'em up in the attic when we have decent people over ;-)I'm not in a huge hurry to make progress on this. Working on the weight loss first. And pull ups at 170 are going to be way easier than at 209.
I have to start with 'negative' pull ups: jump up, ease down and start training the muscles that way. Still sore from doing it on Saturday.
Over all, pretty fired up about my ingenuity. And I know Walter 'CrossFit' Stokes will be proud :-)
4 comments:
love it!
thanks, man. knew you would :-)
now if Walter would just validate me ;-)
What a beets.
Nicely done, Sean. Pullups should be good and brutal with those straps, requiring some stabilizer work. No shame using a box and jumping, I'd say. Or, get a rubber strap, thread it through the rings, holding on to it, and put your knee or foot on it, using it like a spring to assist you - or maybe a bike innertube.
not a beets :-)
thanks, Walter!
wait, pull ups are going to be harder this way?
yeah, i'll just have to keep doing what i can do. pretty easy at this height to just assist off of the floor. no possibility of kipping. rubber assist sounds really interesting, too!
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