But such an unpleasant factor, as an insufficient amount of money, constantly pursues them. Probably it would be cool to swing at home, but there is also a problem here - there is no equipment. This article on the topic: how to make a barbell at home, I dedicate to young athletes with a great desire, but an empty pocket.

Important  : in the next article, we will do together gym   do it yourself, absolutely free.

Benefits

barbell with their own hands:

fashionable fitness centers, with a thousand simulators - pumping out money, because in order to develop beautiful muscles, only basic equipment is needed:

  • Barbell
  • Dumbbells
  • Several racks

And if you figure out, then the barbell is enough to pump the entire muscular corset, see:

♦ Barbell Squat - Legs

♦ Deadlift with barbell - back

♦ Army press on shoulders

♦ Lifting the biceps

♦ French Triceps Press

You see, all the basic elements are performed using a single projectile. Many go to the hall, thinking that only there you can become big, but - this is not true.

Practical bar at home, 5 variations

Preface:   in the article, I will not give exact dimensions, since at home each one has different material and diameters of structures, therefore, I will give general information and attach pictures, and then you can easily figure it out.

Method 1  . Paint tin can

As for me - this version of the bar at home is very easy to make yourself, and in the end something beautiful comes out, especially if you paint it.

Materials:

  • Steel pipe 2-3 meters (diameter, choose the principle of convenient grip)
  • 2 pieces of steel pipe 30 cm each
  • 2 cans of paint volume of 3 liters
  • Cement

Bar manufacturing technique:

♦ Take 2 cans of paint, cut off the bottom

♦ Then, fasten 2 blanks in a can with aluminum wire, in the way shown in the picture (our task is to make supports in order to pour concrete in the future, and the tube remains empty in the center)

♦ After the blanks are exposed, put the banks, standing on a flat surface

♦ Fill in the cement inside, put a brick on top, and wait for complete drying

♦ Insert the main neck into the holes, that's all - the bar with your own hands is ready!

As a result, we get a barbell, which we made at home, spending only a few hundred rubles on cement. Pancakes can be removed and added new in just a few seconds, which allows you to quickly progress in muscle mass.

The most important advantage of the design is that the banks will not allow the cement to crumble.

Forward!

Method 2  . Barbell bottles with their own hands

The advantage of this method is simplicity, you need a minimum of materials for it, and you can make a bar with bottles in a regular apartment.

Materials:

  • 8 bottles of 2 l
  • Main neck
  • Sand
  • Scotch

The shell will be difficult to understand, because it is better to immediately determine the weight or tinkering a few bars.

Manufacturing process:

♦ Take the bottle, equal not only in volume, but in the same form

♦ Go to the sandbox, where we fill the bottles and well tamp the sand in them

♦ With adhesive tape, we tie up 2 bottles, then, we firmly tie them to the neck, when 2 is already good to hold - add 3 and 4

♦ 2 side is the same.

Responsibly treat the fastening tape , and it is advisable to weigh 4 bottles before fastening and form equal sides by weight so that there is no imbalance during the lessons.

Method 3  . Bar with bricks

I also had such a bar at the time, its main advantage in a small weight of bricks, which means you can control the weight, and gradually add if necessary.

Materials:

  • 10 bricks
  • Griffin
  • Stone drill
  • Bulgarian and stone circle

Manufacturing process

♦ The first step is to drill a hole in each brick, a bit larger in diameter than the main fretboard

♦ Step 2, grinder to cut corners and form circles with bricks

♦ Fit bricks under one weight, or hang and sign

♦ Put on homemade pancakes and play sports (good luck)

With bricks to make pancakes for the rod is very easy, if you operate the projectile carefully, the bar will last a long time. And due to the fact that the load can be increased gradually, throwing a few pancakes, progress does not take long.

Method 4  . Cement Wheel Bar

The technology of making such a rod at home is quite simple, all you need is:

  • Cement
  • Metal molds
  • Griffin

Before you do the bar, first talk about forms for cement:

♦ Take metal tin and cut a strip of it, 10 cm wide, and you see for yourself the length

♦ Then, with a strip of tin, we wrap the pillar, and fold the ends in different directions and fasten

♦ When the shape is rounded, we make for it the bottom with a welded tube in the middle.

♦ Pour cement in the form and wait for drying to better understand the process, look closely at the picture

Method 5  . Rustic wooden rod at home

If you are from the village, like me, and you don’t know what to do with the barbell, then the following method is for you.

Materials:

  • Solid wooden cut tree circle
  • Few pounds of old nails
  • Wood drill
  • Wood saw
  • And other metal objects that can be hammered

♦ We go to the cutting of old trees, or to the place where they are engaged in the processing of forests

♦ Cut or ask for a solid wooden circle 10 cm thick, choose your own diameter, which circle will be convenient for you to lift

♦ In the middle we make a hole for the neck.

♦ Then, we drive into our wooden circles, everything that can be hammered into wood (brackets, nails, the rest of the garage trash, as an idea - to buy slate nails)

With the help of scrap materials, we fill the wood with metal for weight gain, hang pancakes so that the bar is balanced - you can begin to conquer sports tops.

All these methods are primitive, shells cannot be beautiful, but we don’t need this - muscles grow from weight, not from the object that we hold in our hands during classes.

I hope that I fully opened the question "how to make a barbell with my own hands", and threw the necessary options, to make your dream come true .

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You will need

  • - eraser bottles (from under the "Fanta")
  • - tin cans (from condensed milk)
  • - two small pieces of metal pipe
  • - cement mortar, sand or water

Instruction

There are several ways to do it. First we look at the one that is easiest to implement. To do this, you will need empty plastic bottles (Fanta bottles are ideal, as they will be comfortable to hold in your hand), water or sand, and electronic scales if you want to adjust the weight of the dumbbell.
Getting Started:
1. Take the bottles, carefully wash them, get rid of the labels.

2. Fill the bottles with sand (you can also with water, but you will have to change the contents often).

With the following method, you can make dumbbells that will weigh much more than dumbbells from bottles. Prepare the following materials: a pair of tin cans (from condensed milk, or similar), if you have large dumbbells, you can take paint cans that are of different sizes, a piece of metal pipe (about 20 cm), cement mortar.
We make dumbbells:
1. Take two jars, rinse and dry them.

2. Take one jar, fill it with cement mortar.

3. Insert one end of the metal pipe into the solution.

4. Hold for a couple of minutes until the solution begins to thicken and the pipe will hold itself upright.

5. Leave the future dumbbell until the cement is completely cured.

6. Fill the second jar with the solution.

7. Insert the free end of the pipe into it, which is poured into the first can.

8. Hold for a while.

9. Secure the pipe in the desired position and leave it to solidify.
It will take you more to make using the latter method, but they will be very strong and comfortable.

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If you decide to do sports, then immediately the question arises: where to get the equipment, in particular barbell? Of course, you can just buy it in a sports store. But pancakes  on barbell  You can do it yourself from scrap materials. We offer you several options for making pancakes for.

Instruction

To make barbell  Prepare 8 plastic bottles from bottles, a wide scotch tape, a spade handle, 2 sand buckets, a wire (preferably aluminum).

Prepare the bottles of the volume you need (for the selected bottles the volume should be the same). Wash and dry.

Put sand, crushed stone and small stones in bottles, depending on what you have. If desired, water can be poured into bottles to make them heavier. In this case, the bottles should be closed very carefully so that the sand does not dry out.

Make bottles of 4 pieces in the shape of a square and wrap them around the outer contour with a wide tape over the maximum. Scotch do not regret. Inside the resulting ligaments turned out a round hole, in which you need to insert a neck - a spade handle.

Using wire attach the resulting " pancakes"To the handle from the shovel on both sides. The design should be as strong as possible, it will ensure safety during exercise. The resulting bar is convenient because it can be weighed with new elements at any time or lightened by simply spilling some of the sand.

To make barbell Prepare a pancake mold (base suitable, for example, from a barrel) 2 pieces, a solution of cement and sand, fittings parts, wire, a square board with a side of 1 meter, 2 stoppers from a bottle (or something cylindrical in shape, suitable for , for example, a bottle of glass), the neck.

Prepare a form for pouring pancake. Put it on the board. Strictly in the center place a cork (vial).

Prepare the solution, pour it into the form. Seal by vibration. Let it freeze.

Cut the shape, remove it from the pancake.

Prepare a similar method for the second pancake.

Insert the neck into pancakes  through special holes.

Helpful advice

If you are too lazy to make a form, you can use round plastic boxes from under the cake.
Alternatively, you can use bags, cans, specially cast cement blocks and attach them with chains to metal pipes in the manner of a rocker arm. The same methods can make dumbbells.

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If you decide to improve your physical shape and build muscle mass, there is no need to buy a subscription to the gym. You can deal with burdens at home. In addition to the simplest push-ups and pull-ups on the bar, you will also need dumbbellswhich everyone is quite capable of making available materials.

You will need

  • Lathe, metal blanks; plastic bottles, sand, shot; metal rods or fittings; wooden board, lead

Instruction

If you have the skills to work on metalworking machines and have access to them, make dumbbells  on a lathe. Weight one dumbbells  without discs should be approximately 1.5 kg. Diameter dumbbells  - about 35 mm. To fix the balance discs, cut the threads under the M20 nut (the nut’s inner diameter is 20 mm). The thread should not reach the base of the handle by 20 mm. Metal-turned disks are best fixed not with one but with two nuts. The second nut will function as a lock nut, otherwise you will have to constantly tighten the fasteners.

Make discs for a diameter of 70 mm and a thickness of 25 mm. The weight of the disk will be about 0.5 kg. More accurate weight dumbbells  can be selected using special washers with an internal diameter of 20 mm, which are sold in stores.

In the absence of the necessary special equipment and materials, manufacture dumbbells  from the funds. Pick up plastic bottles of suitable size and shape and fill them with various contents. This could be sand, cement, nuts or bolts, shot and so on. Such improvised dumbbells are good because they allow to dose the load, depending on the degree of fitness.

Use for the manufacture of dumbbells as pipes of different diameters and lengths. Unlike, fill them not with loose materials, but pour them with lead or concrete. If desired, it is not difficult to make a set of such dumbbells of different weights. As a basis for dumbbells, it is possible to use beer cans or other tin containers.

Another way to make dumbbells  - use metal rods or fittings. Cut equal-sized pieces of rods (25-40 mm long), align and wrap with insulating tape. The convenience of working with such burdens is that you can change the number of rods in a bundle, controlling the weight dumbbells.

Homemade dumbbells  You can also make from lead. Take a suitable board with a thickness of about 30 mm. Using a chisel, cut a stencil in the board in the form dumbbells  and fill it with molten lead. For greater strength in the middle dumbbells  before pouring, install the steel rod by placing a pair of bolts under it. Finished dumbbells  color or wrap with tape.

What to make the neck

First of all, you need to decide what the bar is made of. This should definitely be a very durable material. Either a piece of wood will serve as a neck. In addition, the diameter of the neck should not be less than 4 cm, otherwise the grip will be painful.

With a wooden object is much easier to determine, and it will not add as much additional weight to the projectile, as iron. The most ideal option would be an old mop from your pantry or a rake from a shed. If their cutting seems too long for you, do not worry - this space will come in handy in the future. You will string improvised “pancakes” on it. It remains to separate the cutting in any suitable way.

It is not easy to pick up an iron brother for a homemade bar, but you can for some reason want just such a bar. For example, if you plan to work with a weight of more than 50 kg. Then go to the construction market and purchase an all-metal rod there. Its length should be about 2 m, and the diameter of the cross section - about 35 mm. You can also take a pipe with a diameter of about 4 cm, but it is poorly suited for large weights.

What to make "pancakes"

The easiest option than to load our neck is plastic bottles. They need to be filled with something heavy. Sand, small stones, cement, even plain water will do. You can take 1.5 liter bottles, you can 2 liter. It all depends on your claim, how much weight you need. The weight of one such bottle can reach 4 kg. Just put them around the ends of the neck and tightly wrapped with tape.

Another option is to make cement pancakes. This will have to tinker a bit, and the weight of such burdens can be predicted very approximately. Find a suitable shape, such as a large can of paint. Fill there with cement, place the neck of your future rod and wait for complete hardening. Full freezing will occur at least in a day, and it is better to wait for four. Only then can we proceed to making the second “pancake”. When it dries, firmly support the entire structure.

If there was no cement at hand, use all your imagination. Look at the warehouse and in. Use old car tires, car engine parts, cans filled with scrap iron. Anything, just remember that this is not the most convenient option. It is best to turn to the cement one - it is such a home-made bar that will allow you to fully engage in sports!

For many who want to play sports, the question of visiting the gym is closed due to lack of time, and owning sports equipment for working at home is not so cheap.

Despite the ease of manufacture, the sporting goods industry is simply not interested in selling pieces of metal cheap.
  Moreover, not the fact that each dumbbell and even the neck from the bar will suit you in diameter and shape of the handle, material and other characteristics.
  Quite an adequate response to such a pricing policy was the manufacture of personal sports equipment by hand by many craftsmen. To do this, use different materials, methods and designs.
  Now we will consider the most common of them, so that you can choose and make your own dumbbells or a barbell yourself.

Dumbbells from plastic bottles

  Dumbbells can be collected quickly and very cheaply through the use of plastic bottles. Due to the simplicity of the design to engage with such dumbbells can be immediately after their manufacture.
  For one dumbbell we need: 2 plastic bottles; filler; insulating tape / tape.

The middle part of the bottles must be cut out, and then re-fastened the upper and lower parts with adhesive tape. Then you need to fill the containers with the filler. In the role of a filler, sand and cement are perfect, but if you need more weight, then do not hesitate to add nails, scrap metal, balls from bearings, in general, let your fantasies go away. . The result is a very comfortable, soft and non-slip handle. If you have a very wide palm, find some kind of base under the handle (fittings, pipe) and close the bottle around it, and wrap more tape in the middle to compensate for the difference in thickness of the neck and neck of the bottle. Thus, a homemade neck will also increase the weight of the dumbbell.

Barbell

  The bar itself implies a lot of weight, so you need a lot more bottles. This bar can also be used immediately after it is ready.
  For the rod will need: plastic bottles, at least 8 pieces; filler; neck; adhesive tape / duct tape.
  We use a pipe and fittings convenient for the hand as a neck. We fill the bottles in the same way as we do in dumbbells.
  The finished cargo is wrapped around both ends of the neck and wrapped with adhesive tape. We get four bottles on each side, between which passes the neck. Reliably wind the load to the neck so that it does not move out and does not form a backlash. For a more impressive weight, we take another load and lay it in the intervals between the existing bottles, like logs. We recommend wrapping each new layer with new scotch tape - this way you can increase the weight of the rod to 100 kg.

Cement Dumbbells

  Cement-based dumbbells are much heavier than bottle dumbbells. Large and heavy, solid pancakes for dumbbells and barbells are obtained from the solution, solidified in a certain form with a fingerboard inside. The main drawback of such equipment is the inability to optimize for a constant increase in loads or for another person.
  That is, if you need a dumbbell with a different weight - you will have to make a new one. Also the lack of cement is often called its fragility and friability. To strengthen the mixture, glue (PVA) is added to the solution, and if you do not like, like a powerlifter, throw a barbell on the floor with a triumphant cry, then it is unlikely that it will quickly become unusable.
  So, we need: metal pipes of suitable length; drill, screws or bolts; cement mortar, PVA glue; form for cargo.
To get started, take the pipe and drill at its ends in four directions to drill holes for the screws. Screw the screws so that they hold onto the tips as tightly as possible and stick in the shape of a cross. This is necessary to hold the cement. Next, take a shape (flat bucket of paint, mayonnaise, or whatever. It’s important that you only fit the size by weight) and mix the solution with glue or oil paint for hardness. Insert the pipe into the solution and wait four days to dry completely. Then you need to do the same on the other side. Support, tie up or hang up the structure for another four days. After complete drying, you need to soak the dumbbell a couple of times in the next week to make the cement stronger. Depending on the size of the weights and the length of the neck, both weights and barbells are obtained.
  Of course, for such an exercise as a “farmer's walk”, two cans, hung on a stick, will also fit, and you can also weight the metal neck with car wheels, tires with sand and much more. But only such cement dumbbells will allow to fully exercise sports.
  On the other hand, they are useful only in the first stages. If your passion for sports goes further, then you will understand that it is time to do dumbbells from metal.

Dumbbells made of metal

  Metal pancakes are analogues of the factory, but only cost you less. Metal sports equipment has many advantages. You can change the weight on them, which makes the workout more efficient and saves you from a heap of unsuited cement dumbbells and weights. And if you make a neck for dumbbells and barbells from one tube, you can use the same pancakes, which will save you time, money and space in the room.
  In order to make metal dumbbells, you need much more: a metal workshop; metal rod - the future neck; thin-walled tube with a diameter slightly larger than the neck; Sheet steel; locking locks.
The creation of dumbbells should occur only in the workshop. First we manufacture the neck. In the role of the base is great scrap about 3 cm in diameter. We cut off the neck of 35-40 cm in length from it. Then we take a thin-walled pipe and cut off 15 cm from it. It should be put on the neck to protect the place for the hand, in other words - it will be a pen. After the dumbbell itself has been made, it will be possible to wrap it with tape or cover it with a relief. Cut the discs (future pancakes) from sheet steel with an autogen. Do not doubt their weight - with a sheet thickness of 1 cm disc with a diameter of 18 cm will weigh 2 kilograms. Hang on your dumbbell 10 cm on each side - and you will be 40 kg! If desired, vary the size of the discs to arbitrarily change the weight from the lightest to the heaviest, when training different muscle groups. It would be nice to cut the whole set according to the prototype of factory dumbbells so that in total the weight of one dumbbell could reach 25-30 kg - you will hardly need more.

  We manufacture locking locks. We find a pipe with a diameter slightly larger than our neck, and we cut off 3 cm wide rings from it. It is necessary that they freely go around the neck, but do not slide off by themselves. In each ring, you need to drill a fairly wide hole (about 1-1.2 cm) for screws. After screwing in the screw, the ring will be pressed against the fingerboard and hold the pancakes. Just do not forget to press it close to the discs, so as not to create a backlash. We proceed to the dumbbell assembly: in the middle there should already be a tube from point 1, then we hang the discs and fix with locking locks.
  Done!

Recommendations for the manufacture and use of homemade dumbbells

  The best, of course, are metal dumbbells and barbells. But in their manufacture you need to be as attentive as possible so that the width of the discs and the quality of the locks match your calculations. Too wide discs are better not to use - it is better to increase their diameter, or make 2-4 very heavy discs, and the rest - smaller.
  Do not be lazy to clean and polish every detail of your new dumbbell or barbell so that it looks presentable - paint the pancakes, as manufacturers of sporting goods do. In the end, it will cost you all the same cheaper than purchased projectiles, and the pleasure of practicing with such equipment and the effort expended on it will motivate you to regular training, which will certainly benefit you.
In the web, there are photos of craftsmen who hang about 100 kg on their dumbbells, demonstrating the quality of workmanship. Do not even think about wasting energy on such tricks, it is better to make a barbell, and hang 200-300 kg on it for deadlift - this is impressive.
  Depending on the possibilities, you can buy handles and griffins in the store, and make pancakes yourself or order them in the workshop. Then the qualitative form and convenience of a branded handle will help to hold the grip better, and the rest will be much cheaper.

Not everyone who wants to go in for sports has enough time to visit the gym, and home workouts require certain equipment, the cost of which is quite high. The most popular are dumbbells. They are involved in almost all exercises. And if you do not plan to purchase sports equipment in the near future, you should not abandon classes. You can do dumbbells with your own hands from fairly cheap materials. To do this, just read the instructions on how and from what they are made.

Ordinary plastic bottles make it possible to make dumbbells in a short period of time with minimal monetary expenses, which can be used immediately. The main thing is to fix the structural elements so that it does not collapse during training.

To assemble one plastic shell, you will need: 2 bottles, adhesive tape or insulating tape, filler.

Step-by-step instructions for making dumbbells from plastic bottles:

  1. Cut out the middle part of the bottle. Fasten the separated elements (upper and lower) with adhesive insulating tape.
  2. In the tank fall asleep filler. If the projectile makes a small weight, use cement with sand. Dumbbells with a greater mass require the addition of metallic inclusions, which can be balls from bearings, nails, various metals. The choice depends entirely on the availability of a material.
  3. When the neck of the bottle is filled, a pipe or stick made of metal or wood is inserted. Roll up the joints with tape or tape. Thanks to this manipulation, you get a non-slip, soft and quite comfortable handle.

Before starting classes, you should carefully check all the connections so that the filler does not “leak out”.

Ordinary plastic bottles are not only suitable for collecting dumbbells, but also barbells. This projectile weighs much more, therefore, the amount of source material increases.

To assemble the rod will require: at least 8 plastic bottles, neck, material for the filler, electrical tape or adhesive tape.

Instructions for the manufacture of plastic rods:

  1. Bottles are filled in the same way as dumbbells.
  2. Choose a material for the neck. It is better to take fittings or a pipe that lie comfortably in your hand.
  3. At each end of the neck, ready-made loads of filled plastic bottles are placed and wrapped with adhesive tape. On each side is four loads.
  4. Check the quality of attachment. The neck should not move out or form a backlash. If the connection is poorly made, tape is still wound.
  5. To increase the weight of the bar allows laying of additional weighting materials in the form of bars between the loads from the bottles and so on.
  6. Each additional load must be wrapped with a new layer of tape. You can increase the load up to 100 kg.

To navigate the choice of material is quite difficult. The approximate weight of the dumbbell or barbell can be calculated based on the data presented:

Weight of a two-liter plastic bottle with various fillings:

  • water - 1,997;
  • compacted sand - 3,360;
  • wet sand - 3,840;
  • crushed stone (cavern) - 2,600;
  • lead - 22,800.

Weight is given in kilograms.

We collect shells from concrete

Cement base allows you to get heavier dumbbells and barbells, rather than using plastic bottles. Pancakes are not only more impressive weight, but also look much more solid. They are molded from the cement mortar in a special form, inside which is the neck. The disadvantage of this design is that the load of the projectile cannot be adjusted or adjusted for someone else.

To start working with another weight, you need to make a new barbell or dumbbells. Weighting, in fact, are individual, and still quite fragile and "loose". The last drawback is eliminated by the introduction of glue into the PVA solution. And if classes are not held on the principle of powerlifting, when the projectile is thrown on the floor, then it will serve for a long time.

The manufacture of concrete dumbbells (rods) will require: a metal pipe with the required length, bolts or screws, cement mortar, PVA, as well as a mold for casting cargo.

Step-by-step instructions for making cement shells:

  1. At the ends of the pipe with a drill make holes in four directions. Screws are screwed into the holes, so that they are fixed as securely as possible at the ends and form a kind of cross. They become a skeleton holding cement.
  2. Form for pancakes made from a flat bucket of mayonnaise or paint. You can use another container. The main thing is that the weight should be chosen in such a way that is necessary for training and is suitable for the body of the student. Glue is added to the solution for hardness or oil paint is introduced.
  3. A pipe is placed in the filled mixture and it is waited for about four days until it is completely grasped. Repeat the manipulations described in the previous paragraphs for the second side. Make a support. The design is tied up or suspended for another four days.
  4. When the cement is fully grasped, over the next week, the projectile is soaked at least twice in water so that it gains even greater strength.

Shells, filled in a two-liter form, can weigh about 5 kg. The exact weight is due to the composition of the involved mixture.

In order to perform the "farmer's walk", it is not necessary to make shells. It is enough to take two ordinary cans and hang on a stick. You can use tires filled with sand or any other filler. Other exercises with a similar design are difficult to perform. They require the use of full-fledged dumbbells.

When sports are becoming regular, there is a need to purchase more professional projectiles or make such metal. They are practically no different from the factory. The difference is that hand-made dumbbells will be much cheaper. It is possible to make simultaneously a neck and pancakes from one pipe. It is best to make dumbbells from metal.

To make projectiles, it is necessary to prepare in advance: a thin-walled tube having a diameter slightly larger than the neck, for which it is better to take a metal rod, lock locks and sheet steel. Work on the manufacture of dumbbells should be carried out in the metal workshop.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. From metal scrap with a diameter of about 3 cm saw off about 35-40 cm neck. To keep the projectile in hand, about 15 cm are cut from the thin-walled tube. The resulting piece is put on the neck. Further, if desired, it can be covered with a relief or wrapped with electrical tape.
  2. Pancakes cut out by autogen from sheet steel. The weight of a single disc with a diameter of 18 cm and a thickness of 1 cm is 2 kg. This makes it easy to calculate the required number of pancakes to get a mass of 10, 20, 30, 40 kg. The size of the discs also makes it quite easy to change the weight of weighting agents from small to maximum. Cutting a whole set of pancakes allows you to constantly work with different weights.
  3. The next step is to make locking locks. The diameter of the pipe take more than the neck. Rings are cut from the product with a width of 3 cm. They should move freely around the fingerboard, but not slide off. One hole is drilled in the rings with a diameter of at least 1-1.20 cm. They are necessary for screwing in the screws, which allows the rings to hold pancakes and press against the fingerboard. The main thing is to take care of the quality screw pressure so that there is no backlash.
  4. At the last stage, they start assembling dumbbells. On the neck with a pipe cut in the middle, they hang pancakes and fix them with locking locks.

The dumbbells made by the described method are not inferior in quality to the factory ones; they allow working with both low and high weight.

General tips and advice for assembling dumbbells at home

The best, without any doubt, are metal shells, but they are much more difficult to manufacture than other designs. It is necessary not just to make the discs, but to correctly choose the width of the pancakes, qualitatively perform the locking according to the calculations. It is recommended not to increase the width, but the diameter of the disks. You can make some heavy and some small pancakes.

To dumbbells look presentable, the details are polished and painted. This will only slightly make the process of creation and increase the cost of projectiles, but they will look no worse than the factory ones, and they will have a much lower price. Classes with such equipment will bring more pleasure, and, consequently, the motivation and effect of training will increase.

You should not spend time and effort to create dumbbells weighing up to 100 kg. There are plenty of instructions for assembling such structures on the Internet, but it is better to immediately make a bar with a calculation of 200-300 kilos to perform deadlift. Dumbbells for such loads are not suitable. And if the iron, then with a serious projectile, that is, a barbell.

If there is such an opportunity, you can purchase a neck with a handle in the store, and you can either make the pancakes yourself or order them in the workshop. A well-made handle contributes to comfortable activities, and homemade pancakes significantly reduce the cost of the total cost of the projectile.

In stores, sports equipment is quite expensive, so not everyone can do it. To achieve the same results as with real dumbbells, you can independently build some simple power projectiles. The main constancy of the exercise - and the result is guaranteed.

The most affordable and easy way to do the dumbbells is to take two plastic bottles and fill them with water. For more weight, you can fill the bottles with sand. This method is more suitable for girls because of the ease of execution and low weight. For guys, this method is not suitable, so some craftsmen have developed unique ways that will help everyone to make dumbbells in the home, spending the least amount of expenses.

Making Cement Dumbbells

A fairly common type of homemade dumbbells are cement, which have a lot of weight. If desired, you can make dumbbells up to 15 kg each. To do this, take a metal or plastic pipe, cement mortar and suitable containers. The mortar can be any paint bucket, mayonnaise or just the bottom of a cut bottle. At the same time, the larger the capacity, the harder the dumbbell will be, so you can even trim a five-liter bottle.

Then dilute the solution and fill the selected container. Insert the metal tube into the center of the tank and wait for the complete solidification of the solution. Half a dumbbell ready. The next day, doing the same thing with the other half, only with the cargo frozen at the other end. For additional fixation of the tube in the solution, it is possible to screw the screws into its ends so that a part of them protrudes for greater adhesion.

Full drying of cement mortar occurs only after four days, before using them is not recommended. To make a homemade dumbbell aesthetic appearance, they can be cleaned and painted with ordinary paint, or simply wrap colored tape. The same method is done and the rod, only the tanks must be of a larger diameter. The main thing is not to throw cement dumbbells on a hard surface, because they can break.

Dumbbells from DVDs

The next way how to make dumbbells at home is even more interesting. Unnecessary DVD discs are taken, and, the more, the better, and a metal tube with a diameter, like a hole in the discs. In order to make such dumbbells, we need limiters for discs, so it is advisable to have a thread at the ends of the pipe on which nuts are screwed on both sides of a stack of discs.

When using 100 discs per dumbbell, that is, on the sides of one dumbbell of 50 pieces, we get a weight of 2 kg. For convenience, wrap the handle with either a rubber band or other thick material to increase the diameter.

If you do not know how to make dumbbells with your own hands, or the listed methods for some reason do not fit, you can contact the turner, who will erase all the details of the metal. Such dumbbells will be most similar to professional ones, while their cost will be several times less.