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Hi Folks,

I'm living in a rental at the moment and pretty stuck for indoor training options. We are about to have a new little addition to a family which is awesome but means less opportunity to hit the wall.

What have people done to maintain fitness and strength indoors when you can't attach a fingerboard (Landlord will have a heart attack if I start drilling holes). Some sort of freestanding hangman style structure to add one too? We have space just not walls to drill into.

Are there any examples of super compact indoor mini walls? Like 1 board and a few holds or the self supporting training chin up board?

Thanks

In reply to Simonsays:

You could make one of these like I did a few years ago:

http://www.thefreeclimber.com/photos/travel%20fingerboard%20640.jpg

Just needs to be wider at the bottom than the doorway and it's very stable. A few bungee loops for your foot and it can be remarkably useful.

In reply to john arran:

That's pretty good John, love the variety pf holds. I did try and make something similar a few year back by mounting a fingerboard on a length of wood and then attaching mounts to the door frame. Problem was you couldn't then shut the door and my GF was not too pleased.

Does the chin up bar stay in place? I have visions of it coming loose

In reply to Simonsays:

You could just drill the holes and fill them in before you leave so the landlord will never know. Filling them in again will take all of about 1 minute. Pull up bars in doorways can potentially cause more damage (to the doorframe) than a couple of rawlplug holes anyway.

In reply to Simonsays:

It stays up if you tighten it really well but better to put in the tiniest of screws to hold it in place - they're practically invisible once it's down. The good thing is that the bar stays in place and you can simply attach the board to it whenever you like as it clips on.

In reply to Simonsays:

I have a pull up bar like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00376I6G4

And you could easily make a mount for a pull up board which will rest on the pull up bar.

In reply to Simonsays:

A mount for fixing fingerboards/holds to, that clamps to a door frame, not requiring any screws/permanaent fixing and causes no damage is always an option...?!
http://crusherholds.co.uk/fingerboard-mounting-device-2

Thanks for the suggestions, will check those out. My door frame does not look too strong so not holding out too much hope there, we'll see.

In reply to Paul Crusher R:
A vote for this design, we built something very similar (customised to our needs) and have now used it in 3 different rental houses with 0 doorframe collapses or marks on the frame / wall. There's also no flex / shifting when you first hang unlike most pull-up bar based solutions.

Because the load is spread across almost the entire top of the door frame you don't actually need a particularly sturdy one. We've certainly used ours on a few flexy ones but obviously test progressively the first time you put it up! If you want to test your frame before you buy, try hanging from the doorframe by your fingers (unless the edge is too small!) with hands just in from the vertical parts of the frame.