How To Make A Pull Up Bar In Your Garage

Insert one 90 degree elbow into each end of the long bar.

How to make a pull up bar in your garage.

Measure out the length you will need to be able to do pull ups without smacking your face into the ceiling. For more tips on health and fitness check out the free. Or you can do pull ups to where your head is going. 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.

These are dependent on the height of your garage ceiling and how you want to set up your pull up bar. Construct the pull up bar as detailed in the photo above square and tighten all connections. This example is cut to 18 inches but it will vary depending on ceiling height and personal preference. I learned a lot on the first anchor so the second one went up very easily.

Cut boards cut two identical pieces of the 2 4 to the height at which you d like the bar to hang. Insert shorter pipes into elbows so that they form a right angle to the longer bar. How to build a pull up bar. Use your wrench to tighten as needed.

If not just make sure you are stable. 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. Be safe getting the bar in the attic. With this pull up bar in place you will be able to complete several home exercises for back muscles without compromising your results.

Get a friend to help you if you can. 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. 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. Nice and strong but still required one more part of the assembly before any.

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

I got it up there by myself no problem. Front view of ceiling mount pull up bar.