Homemade and Customized Exercise Equipment

That's neat. Once I built a chin-up bar using iron pipe. It was suspended from the steel beams in my basement ceiling and shaped like an S so it could hook on and come off easily. But after moving somewhere without basements that setup doesn't work. There are lots of videos online with good ideas.

A while back I created a foam roller using the heavy cardboard tube from an industrial textile roll. It was completely rigid and roughly three inches across. Back then I really liked it, but these days I'm sure it would be too much for me.

Years ago I constructed a pull-up bar using 4x4s and conduit pipe. I'd bring it out of the garage to do pull-ups in the driveway. One night I left it outside and it disappeared. Whoever took it must have really wanted it since it was heavy, at least 150 pounds. I imagine some unemployed bodybuilder grabbed it to keep training.

I've created concrete weights for farmer carries using small buckets filled with concrete and pipe for handles. Also a large drum with concrete inside that I pull around the yard. Recently I strapped a small keg half full of water to a backpack and the sloshing works my core while walking. Another backpack holds rocks for weight on walks as a reminder of past effort. I've also made concrete dumbbells with pipe.