Anyone ever design and/or build your own equipment?

[Master Blaster]

I'm always thinking up weird exercise equipment, buy usually lack the knowlege to actually build anything. Here's on idea I came up with, a "reverse circular ladder" that you have to climb on the outside. You would have to awkwardly climb straight down and upside down in order to rotate compleatly around. Would need some kind of bottom stand to elevate it off the ground.

[heavyNbasic]

See Cirque de Soliel.

[benchmstr]

i designed and built my own seated dip machine/standing shoulder press.....i wish i still had it....i tig welded the bastard out of stainless...didnt cost me anything.....phillips connoco lost a bit of money with it though...thanks dad

bench

[tonymctones]

My pops and my grandpops built a lot of exercise equipment when my dad was younger and thats what I started working out on...they didnt design it really but they copied the designs from magazines and built their own equipment off pictures.

had a power rack that you could attach a leverage device to one side and do leg presses, squats, shoulder presses, bench presses etc...dipping bars, pull down machine, and Honestly to this day the bar none best preacher curl machine Ive ever used.

he gave most of it away when they moved a couple yrs ago but I took that damn preacher curl machine its pretty damn cool.

they also built a model A(old timey car) which he still has

[_bruce_]

I'm always thinking up weird exercise equipment, buy usually lack the knowlege to actually build anything. Here's on idea I came up with, a "reverse circular ladder" that you have to climb on the outside. You would have to awkwardly climb straight down and upside down in order to rotate compleatly around. Would need some kind of bottom stand to elevate it off the ground.

Could be dangerous - getting squashed if too slow and the thing's in motion.

[Master Blaster]

Could be dangerous - getting squashed if too slow and the thing's in motion.

Yeah, I was thinking of a staic version, not a rotating one.

Maybe this is more my speed:

[tonymctones]

I'm always thinking up weird exercise equipment, buy usually lack the knowlege to actually build anything. Here's on idea I came up with, a "reverse circular ladder" that you have to climb on the outside. You would have to awkwardly climb straight down and upside down in order to rotate compleatly around. Would need some kind of bottom stand to elevate it off the ground.

they have a climbing wall that rotates while you climb around it...

kinda like this...

http://exergamefitness.com/skywall.htm

they do have rock climbing walls that do the same thing though...not to hard to build either built a small one in the back yard when I was younger

[CalvinH]

See Cirque de Soliel.

x2...thats exactly what I thought


.....is masterblaster a 1100lb oriental

[Master Blaster]

x2...thats exactly what I thought


.....is masterblaster a 1100lb oriental

I'm guess you put an extra 1 in there?   

[tallgerman]

One time I went to the park and did chinups on the monkey bars.

They were built by the park rec crews I think.

Great workout.