If you decide to go in for sports, then the question immediately arises: where to get the equipment, in particular the barbell? Of course, you can just buy it at a sports store. But pancakes on a bar can be made with your own hands from scrap materials. We offer you several options for making barbell pancakes.
Instructions
Step 1
To make a barbell from bottles, prepare 8 plastic bottles, wide tape, a shovel handle, 2 buckets of sand, and a wire (preferably aluminum).
Step 2
Prepare bottles of the volume you need (the selected bottles should have the same volume). Wash and dry them.
Step 3
Fill the bottles with sand, gravel and small stones, depending on what you have. If you like, you can add water to the bottles to make them heavier. In this case, the bottles must be closed very carefully so that the sand does not dry out.
Step 4
Arrange bottles of 4 in the shape of a square and wrap them along the outer contour with wide tape over the maximum area. Do not feel sorry for the scotch tape. Inside the resulting ligaments, a round hole turned out into which you need to insert a neck - the handle of a shovel.
Step 5
Using a wire, attach the resulting pancakes to the shovel handle on both sides. The structure should be as strong as possible, this will ensure safety during exercise. The resulting bar is convenient in that it can be weighted with new elements at any time or lightened by simply pouring out some of the sand.
Step 6
To make a barbell out of concrete, prepare a pancake mold (a wooden base is suitable, for example, from a barrel) 2 pieces, a solution of cement and sand, parts from reinforcement, wire, a square board with a side of 1 meter, 2 bottle caps (or something cylindrical shape, suitable for the diameter, for example, a glass bubble), neck.
Step 7
Prepare a pancake pan. Place it on the board. Place the cork (bubble) firmly in the center.
Step 8
Prepare the solution, pour it into the mold. Seal with vibration. Let it freeze.
Step 9
Cut the mold, remove it from the pancake.
Step 10
Prepare a second pancake in the same way.
Step 11
Insert the bar into the pancakes through the special holes.
