- [Instructor] Good morning motivators.
As I've been setting up the pain cave back here.
One of the big issues that I had was kettlebell storage.
I have a heck of a kettlebell collection developing.
The issue with this is that
I've found metal kettlebell racks
that are barely enough
to actually carry a whole bunch
of kettlebells, are upwards of $1,200 if not more
and don't even carry that many kettlebells.
Off the shelf, shelving units aren't big enough
to actually hold this amount of weight.
So, I had to build my own solution.
What I'm gonna go through today is
how you can build your own kettlebell storage rack
that can store up to 24 competition size kettlebells
or regular sized kettlebells,
I'm not sure how many,
probably a little bit more,
with the only tools you need being a drill,
a circular saw and only about $70 worth of material
and two hours time.
This here kettlebell storage rack measures in at
just under 50 inches wide.
It is,
11 and a half inches deep and,
(soft music)
48 inches tall.
As I said, 24 competition size kettlebells
which are all the exact same size
and how the weight is different from all
of them is the amount of filling and steel
in the middle of the kettlebell changes.
If you have just regular typical kettlebells
that you would see more commonly,
you can probably fit a lot more of the light ones
and maybe the less of the heavy ones.
But generally speaking, this is gonna work
for whatever kettlebells you've got.
For material and tools, you're gonna buy one
four by eight by three quarter sheet of plywood,
six two by four eight foot framing lumber,
which is like two bucks.
A countersink bit, a drill, a circular saw,
and a whole mess of two inch and three inch screws.
You're gonna cut six pieces that are 48 inches long
for the front of the shelves
and then you're gonna cut 12 pieces
that are seven inches long for the braces of the shelves.
Out of all the plywood, you're going to cut two pieces
that are 48 inches wide by 10 inches deep
and then you're gonna cut three pieces
that are 48 inches long by 11 and a half deep.
So you're gonna screw all this together,
but bring this in real close.
I wanna show you how you're gonna screw this together.
First, the deeper long pieces of plywood are going
to be for the sides and the very top shelf,
because it's going to fit in with some braces
that we're going to do afterwards.
But as you start screwing everything together,
you screw the short pieces together
with the long pieces here.
I want you to use the countersink bit
anytime you're screwing into the end of wood.
So let's say this for example is screwing into wood
where it's like stacked like that.
So as you're screwing in, nothing's going to split,
but when you have something that's like this
and you screw in that way, it can split.
So that's where your countersink bit
for something like a screw like this, is going to bore in,
and it's going to prevent that second piece of wood
with the end that you're screwing into from splitting,
so it stays nice and strong.
So screw everything together then,
screwing all the two by fours together first,
have one shelf for the top that is going to be longer
and the length is going to hang past the two by fours
by about an inch and a half
and then the other two by fours and shelves
are all just going to get screwed together
and you're gonna have basically a rectangle.
After that's all done, screw the sides on,
and you have to leave at least 11 and a half inches
for all of the spaces.
If you've cut all the pieces in the dimensions
that I mentioned, you should have just enough.
That's going to be just barely enough
for the height of a competition style kettlebell.
As you get into the much heavier kettlebells
with a traditional style kettlebell,
that might not be enough room
in which case you're going to have to cut these side pieces
longer and have more room for some of the shelves.
So you got everything's screwed together now,
to stop the shelf from tipping this way and that way,
we could just screw in through these two by fours
and find a stud.
I always like to have some sort of bracing
that stops shelving like this
and a cabinet like this from warping.
So that's where we put these cross beams in the back
and that's gonna stop it from having any sort of warping.
What you do for that
is as opposed to trying to figure out all of the angles,
you can just take a two by four,
lay it across the back,
lining it up with where you wanna screw it in at the top
and where you wanna screw it in at the bottom,
take a pencil and scribe along the edge
in the angle that you need,
then take your circular saw and go and cut that angle.
Screw that in, and then go and do the same thing
with the next cross member, lay down a two by four,
scribe that one line that you're gonna cut on,
cut the line and then screw it all in.
I did end up buying a plate at the back of this.
You don't have to have that,
but that was just a way that I like to tie everything
absolutely together so it's nice and tight.
So that metal plate is in the back, this is screwed,
nothing can twist, nothing can warp.
This thing is like a Tetris block.
That's just one solid piece, it ain't going anywhere.
I like to stain up things like this,
so it just doesn't look raw.
You can choose any stain that you want.
I gave this a little bit of a scuff
with some really gritty 60 or 80 grit sandpaper,
just to take all the rough edges
and the splinters off of all of the edge,
but you don't really have to prepare this that much.
If you wanted something
that looked really polished and finished,
you wouldn't be building this out
of plywood or two by fours.
So to end up sanding this a whole lot,
it's really not going to give you much
of a bang for your buck.
So get any sort of wood stain
or come in and getting some gloves,
any sort of rag will do, stain this all up.
Once that's done,
put it into place and how we're going to secure this,
is 100% going to be into studs.
You could use a drywall anchor
and every single drywall anchor has a load rating,
usually around 80 to 100 pounds if it's properly installed,
but putting something into a stud
is going to be much, much better
because we currently have several hundred pounds on this,
and if this comes down on anyone,
there's gonna be some serious injuries.
So we wanna make sure that we're hitting studs.
How you do that without creating a whole bunch of holes
in the wall that you then have to patch
and cover in all of these crappy small little places,
is push this up against the wall,
draw a little line where the cross members are,
angled a little bit in
so that when it gets screwed to the wall,
it's going to get covered,
and then screw along that line inside the line
until you hit some studs, push it back up against the wall,
go in through the two by fours,
into the stud with a screw of at least three inches long
and if it ends up getting sucked into the two by four,
the head of the screw starts sucking into the two by four,
you hit a stud and it's gonna be nice and safe.
Put at least four screws into, your making sure
that you hit studs with everyone.
And you're gonna have a low grading
of over 1,000 pounds at very least.
Nice and safe.
We got all these kettlebells sent out
by the sister company to Living Fit
and they wanted to do a giveaway with you
as opposed to just sending me out a bunch of kettlebells,
they wanted to do a giveaway and offer you a bunch of gear.
Here's the gear, it's pretty good.
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many battle ropes, many resistance bands, an exercise ball,
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and their courses on how to use the battle ropes.
So there is a link in the description below
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