Wall Mounted Homemade Pull Up Bar

Wall mounted pull up bars are permanently fixed to a wall.

Wall mounted homemade pull up bar.

For anyone that plans a total lift weight body weight plus any weighted vests or weight belts of 200 pounds or less a 3 4 inch pipe diameter is likely sufficient. The primary piece of equipment that you ll need is a galvanized pipe. Only do this if you know how to embed beefy drywall anchors. Better yet find your studs and make your rig the right width to correspond with anchoring it to your studs behind the drywall.

Wall mounted pull up bar. How to build a ceiling or wall mounted pull up bar. The bolts go into the wall horizontally but the weight of your body pulls against them vertically. A great thing about this homemade pull up bar is the 90 degree angle between the mounting mechanism and the force you will apply to it.

However a 1 inch pipe is safer though more expensive and more difficult to find. As you can imagine you need 1 a strong preferably outer wall to attach the bar to and 2 some very strong anchor bolts for the fixings.