How To Do Pull-Ups At Home When You Don’t Have a Pull-Up Bar
So you’re training at home and you don’t have a place to put a chin-up bar. Or you don’t have a training rack with a pull-up bar on it.
No problem!
I’ve got a couple of simple items that are going to totally change the way you look at hardware stores…
What are those items?
C-clamps…
Your basic woodworking C-clamps, available at any hardware store in the world.
All you have to do is clamp those onto something solid in your house (or outside) and you’ve got yourself a couple of chin-up handles! Use two clamps (the size I found to work best is 4 inch – it gives you the perfect size handle for gripping on) attached to a rafter in the basement.
It’s a simple matter of clamping those on somewhere high up then doing pull-ups on them!
If you’re worried about damaging the surface with the clamps, just slide a couple of smaller pieces of wood in between the clamping surfaces to spread out the load.
This setup is not only cheap and easy but very versatile. Because you can clamp on anywhere you like, you can change the grip width very easily. You can start with close grip chins then move a clamp out further and do neutral-grip wide-grip pull-ups.
You can set the clamps on two different rafters and do regular wide-grip pull-ups. Heck, you can shift the clamps around to almost any position and do a HUGE variety of mixed-grip pull-ups. The options are many.
Now you’re probably thinking “sounds great, but are they solid?”
Definitely.
Once solidly clamped on, these clamps will not shift…even if you actually TRY your hardest to pull them loose!
So if you train at home and have been looking for a pull-up solution for home training, head over to the hardware store a.s.a.p. and go get your C-clamps!
On a side note, you can also use those C-clamps to anchor training bands. You can use the clamps when you’re doing bench presses adding band resistance (great training explosiveness out of the bottom). Most racks don’t have posts for hitching bands so attach the clamps onto the bottom base rails and tie the bands onto those. It’s quick and easy and really works well!
