A Simple, Home Made Childhood Obesity Prevention Machine That Really Works

Operation Pull Your Own Weight is a childhood obesity prevention strategy that’s built on three simple observations, including:
1. Kids who can do pull ups ARE NEVER OBESE
2. If you start them young, and use leg assisted pull ups in conjunction with a height adjustable pull up bar, ALMOST ALL KIDS can learn to do pull ups.
3. As long as they maintain the ability to do pull ups, almost all kids can NATURALLY IMMUNIZE THEMSELVES against obesity for a lifetime without ever having to resort to pills, shots, or special diets to do the trick.
After hearing these observations, people often ask, “OK, so what are leg assisted pull ups? And what’s a height adjustable pull up bar? And where can I buy one and help my kids to immunize themselves against obesity for a lifetime?”
Of LAPU’s and HAPUB’s…
First of all leg assisted pull ups are the ones that are done with the help of a participant’s legs. In other words the participant is jumping and pulling at the same time in order to get their chin up to the bar. A height adjustable bar accommodates leg assisted pull ups because it can be raised or lowered in one inch increments in order to increase or decrease the amount of leg assistance along with the level of difficulty individually for each performer. By raising the bar, the participant lowers the amount of leg assistance, and increases the level of difficulty.
The idea is to start at a height where the participant can do at least eight LAPU’s, and gradually increase the repetitions to twelve. When the participant can do twelve LAPU’s, the bar is raised one inch, and the entire eight to twelve scenario is repeated.
As the bar is gradually raised in one inch increments over time, the participant eventually runs out of leg assistance, and discovers that they’re suddenly able to do conventional pull ups. That is to say, they can officially pull their own weight, and have now naturally immunized themselves against obesity for a lifetime, so long as they maintain their hard won ability.
So Where Can You Buy One?
So where can you buy a height adjustable pull up bar? Honestly, to my knowledge nobody is currently manufacturing a height adjustable pull up bar that raises and lowers in one inch increments. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make one yourself. The remainder of this article then is dedicated to explaining how simple it is to make a home made height adjustable pull up bar. Check it out.
Here Are The Ten Things You’ll Need…
1. One doorway pull up bar to install permanently (preferably screwed in)
2. One roll of galvanized hanger strap, sometimes called plumber’s tape
3. Two, three foot sections of chain with one inch links
4. Two Quick Links (Home Depot’s terms…an oval shaped link with a screw based opening and closing connecting mechanism)
5. Two eye bolts
6. Two Spring Links (Home Depot terms…a tear drop shaped, spring loaded connecting mechanism)
7. One pipe, one inch in diameter that’s six inches wider than your doorway
8. Two rubber floor protectors. These are normally used on the bottoms of chairs to protect the floor, but in this case you place on each end of the pipe.
9. One wooden ruler, three feet long
10. One drill, one screwdriver, and one crescent wrench*
Sixteen Simple Steps
With these components in hand, follow 16 simple steps and you’ll have your very own, cost effective, home made, childhood obesity prevention machine (a.k.a. a height adjustable pull up bar) with which your kids can teach themselves how to do pull ups, and in the process they can immunize themselves against obesity for the rest of their lives as long as they maintain their ability to perform pull ups.
1. Permanently install the doorway pull up bar, preferably using screws
2. Mount the wooden ruler vertically along the side of the doorway
3. Cut two lengths of plumber’s tape long enough overlap by two inches when wrapped completely around the pipe
4. Saddle these over the pull up bar attach the Quick Links to each one
5. Attach one section of chain to each Quick Link so that they hang from the bar
6. Close both Quick Links tightly
7. Drill a hole (two holes) about two inches from each end of the pipe
8. Insert the eye bolts into the holes and secure tightly with accompanying nut
9. Attach one teardrop shaped Spring Link into each eye bolt
10. With the Spring Links, attach your pull up bar horizontally to any pair of chain links and record the height by referring to the ruler mounted in the doorway
11. Now using your legs to jump and your arms to pull simultaneously do at least eight leg assisted pull ups.
12. If you can’t do eight repetitions, lower the bar until you can do eight reps
13. Your next workout you’ll do nine, then ten, then eleven, then twelve reps
14. When you can do twelve repetitions, raise the bar one inch and begin the entire eight to twelve rep scenario all over again
15. As you make regular progress workout after workout, week after week, the bar will get so high that you’ll eventually run out of legs and be real doing pull ups.
16. Maintain that ability for the rest of your life and you’ll always be relatively strong and relatively trim…and NEVER OBESE.
The Recipe for Success…
Now that you have access to the equipment, the recipe for success includes…
1. Regular workouts, twice a week, on non-consecutive days
2. Eat a well balanced diet including plenty of fruits and veggies
3. Get sufficient rest at night
4. Avoid tobacco, it makes you weak
5. Avoid alcohol, it makes you weak
6. Avoid drugs, they make you weak
7. And get stronger almost every time you work out
Questions?
If you have further questions check out the official Operation Pull Your Own Weight web site at www.pullyourownweight.net or the blog entitled www.childhood-obesity-prevention.com. They’re both loaded with good, practical information designed for good, practical parents who want to do something to prevent their kids from childhood obesity and all the problems that go along with it.
*Make sure that all these components are strong enough to hold MORE than the weight of the children (or the adults) who will be using it.
Rick Osbourne is a Chicago based, freelance writer who currently serves as Executive Director of Operation Pull Your Own Weight, an informational web site that's dedicated to naturally immunizing kids against obesity for a lifetime without pills, shots, or special diets. If you're interested in childhood and obesity or obesity in America, then check out http://www.pullyourownweight.net any time you'd like.
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