Edoardo Roberto Cagnola Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I was thinking about making a set of parallel bars to use at home for my foundation work. I found a video where a 200 lb guy was doing weighted dips on a pvc dip bar station that he made for his garage gym and they really seemed solid and stable. But my question is: will something like this work for stuff like Russian dips? Here is an image of what I'm thinking of making Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Slocum Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Make it a little longer and it'll work for bulgarian dips. If Russian dips tend to involve a little bit of momentum at the bottom (ideally this is minimized but you'll see there's a little bit even in the course videos), so you'd want something a bit heavier or sturdier for that. Korean dips would unfortunately be right out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajesh Bhat Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Please provide a tutorial if you could. I'm sure a lot of people would love this. My son is wanting to train with the GB program and we don't have access to parallel bars for the home training, just Leberts that aren't high enough. Just curious, are these high enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edoardo Roberto Cagnola Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 I'll post some links to useful videos about it later today. In regards the the height, you can modify all of the sizes of the pvc pipes to fit your needs: you can make it longer, higher etc. just consider that I would not make those too high because it could really affect the stability of the whole thing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briac Roquet Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 But then if you have weights, you can stabilise the thing without sacrificing its portability. Anyway, nice setup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edoardo Roberto Cagnola Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 Here is the link to the video I was referring to: You asked me for a tutorial, so here is a link to a website that will list all the parts that you need.http://www.tomharveytraining.com/2012/03/25/dyi-dip-station-design/ The problem is that it does not show how to do the station itself, so I found this other video that show how to do a really similar product: parallettes. You just need do add the parts to connect them, as shown in the previous links! Hope this is helpful enough, I'm sorry that I could not find a complete video tutorial for this exact setup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajesh Bhat Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Hmm... all I have to do is stick them together? Or is PVC glue/primer recommended? Don't know how to work with that stuff.Thanks SO much. Will be a great alternative to parallel bars. One question: aren't they the same thing as Leberts, or can you make them high and stable enough for all the exercises? are they better? I just have Leberts lying around, that's why I'm asking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Slocum Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 If you go with metal pipe, you just screw everything together. If you go with PVC, you'll need to use glue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajesh Bhat Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Will it be big and tall enough for dips? What about HS, HSpushup, etc. (Just curious )Will Leberts be fine? Apparently they aren't tall enough for proper dips... these bars don't look tall enough. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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