A barbell is a device designed to pump up biceps, triceps, etc., as well as just to get a little stronger, improve your figure and maintain your appearance in shape. In order to start swinging, it is not at all necessary to immediately run to a sports store and dump a considerable amount for a stylish projectile. You can easily make a barbell at home.
It is necessary
wide stationery tape, 8 empty flat plastic bottles, a shovel handle or any iron pipe about two meters long and about 3.5 cm in diameter, aluminum wire, glue moment, cement and / or plain river sand
Instructions
Step 1
Take plastic bottles and unscrew the caps. In this case, you should know that all bottles must be of the same volume - either all of 1, 5 liters, or 2, or even 5. The larger the volume of the bottle, the correspondingly heavier the rod will be.
Step 2
Prepare slurry or sand. Fill bottles or pour cement inside. Note that the weight of the rod can be different, depending on your preference, and therefore, you can resemble half of the bottles with cement and half with sand, or make other configurations (2 bottles are cement, the rest are sand, etc.). Alternatively, using sand alone, you can simply add water to the bottle, making it heavier. Be careful - do not overdo it with the mass, especially if you are a newbie in this business.
Step 3
Apply glue to the corks and screw them onto the bottles. It is necessary to apply glue so that if you accidentally drop the bar from your hands, you do not spill sand from the bottles.
Step 4
Place the filled bottles in a row and wrap them tightly in 4 pieces with prepared tape. Make as many turns with scotch tape as possible - at least 30-35. The bottles should in no way dangle in the bundle, they should be firmly connected.
Step 5
Secure the resulting bottle ties with wire. Closer to the bottom, make 4 turns with wire and about 6-7 - closer to the neck. Thus, you will get 2 bundles of bottles.
Step 6
Insert a wooden handle or metal pipe into the hole in each of the bundles in the middle between the bottles, closer to the neck, as if hanging a weight on a stick. How to fix the bottles on the pipe, everyone decides for himself, this can be done, for example, by bending up the edges of the pipe or wrapping the edges of the handle protruding from the bottles with wire.
