Swedish ladder: do-it-yourself installation instructions for children (photos and videos)

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Children's sports complex at home

If you are a fan of a healthy lifestyle and dream that your child will adopt your life credo from you, then installing a children's sports complex at home will be the best solution. The child will be able to warm up without going far from lessons, and also in the cold season, when going out on the horizontal bar in the yard with friends is problematic.

Moreover, sports equipment will help the youngest users develop faster and more harmoniously. Let's talk today about these irreplaceable household accessories, look at what manufacturers offer us today, and also tell you how to make a Swedish ladder with your own hands.

Functionality and types of Swedish stairs Introducing a child to DSC: advantages and disadvantages
Types of sports equipment for Swedish ladders

Making a Swedish ladder

Types of stairs

Homemade staircase

Functionality and types of Swedish stairs

Young athlete in training

Let's first talk about how the presence of such an unpretentious equipment in the house can change a child's life, taking into account both positive and negative aspects.

Introducing a child to DSC: advantages and disadvantages

Although the Swedish ladder for children can be used from the first years of life, this process should be approached carefully and carefully. The fact is that young children have a poorly developed sense of self-preservation, and they can get injured simply by expressing their curiosity.

The Swedish ladder is the very first apparatus that will be available to a child. As it grows, you can add more and more complex details.

Advice! Be sure to secure your baby until you are personally convinced that his grip has become reliable and he is confidently holding on to the bars. Be sure to secure yourself with a sports mat that will soften a possible fall and protect you from unnecessary injuries.

A gymnastic ladder for home is always complemented by a sports mat

Along the way, one should not forget about the psychological formation of a small personality. As soon as the child has become independent, stop hovering over him like a hen.

Do not pay attention to minor falls that will not cause harm to the child's health. Let him learn to rise on his own and strengthen his fighting spirit.

Sports Swedish ladders

And in order to avoid the risk of injury, take care of high-quality, durable equipment, and allow your child only to use equipment that is appropriate for his age.

Here is the recommended mastering sequence:

under 2 years of age are allowed on children's Swedish stairs equipped with a mat. The height between the crossbars should be around 20 centimeters, that is, accessible for a child’s step.
From two to three years old, a child will enjoy riding on a swing. Additionally, low-hanging rings and a rope ladder securely attached to the floor are suitable.

Horizontal ladder for home

From three to eight years old, you can accustom your child to a rope, a horizontal bar and playing equipment, such as a basketball hoop attached to a ladder under the ceiling.

At an older age, a child interested in sports will be able to independently determine what he needs to supplement his staircase with.

Types of sports equipment for Swedish ladders

Staircase - wall bars

The Swedish ladder itself is a compact structure, firmly attached to the wall. The most interesting thing about it is that it is also the basis of a real sports complex, which can be equipped with various equipment.

Let's list the most common ones:

Wall horizontal bar with stairs for home

The horizontal bar is the most versatile and common projectile. With its help, an athlete can strengthen the muscles of the arms, back, neck, chest, and also use it to stretch and relax tense muscles. Classes on the home horizontal bar will be useful not only for children, but also for stagnant dads, who, remembering their dashing youth, will teach their sons new techniques and exercises.

Gymnastic rings

Rings - allow you to perform a number of exercises that, in addition to muscles, develop the vestibular apparatus in a person. By exercising on them, you can strengthen your arms, back, stomach, neck and even legs.

Rope-ladder

A flexible rope ladder, although complex, is an indispensable attribute of a good DSK. Moving along it develops in children not only physics, but also coordination in space. This attribute will certainly be appreciated by dreamers who like to imagine themselves as sea robbers, so run to the store for a spyglass and a pirate hat!

Children's horizontal bar ladder for home, equipped with a rope

The rope is considered the most complex and dangerous projectile installed on the Swedish ladder. That is why you should not allow small children near it. But as soon as the baby can master it, it will help him strengthen the muscles throughout the body and make them much more resilient. If the rope is attached to the ceiling, then the child will get used to heights, and he will not have a fear of it.

A Swedish ladder with a horizontal bar can be equipped with a hammock

A hammock or a nest woven from a strong rope - such an addition can be safely called a play addition, but it can also be used for relaxation in between stormy runs around the apartment. They can be made from fabric or large mesh woven from ropes and ropes.

Sports trapeze

The trapeze or in common parlance “bungee” is another apparatus for training endurance and coordination. Can be easily used in games.

In the photo - hanging swing

A swing is another entertaining attribute that will delight the youngest children.

We do not consider other equipment such as a log or a support platform for strength exercises, since they have a narrow specific application and are not suitable for all users.

Required Tools

To set up a sports corner, you need the following elements:

lumber (2 main wooden posts, 2 m long, and 2 crossbars, 0.8 m long);
1 sheet of birch plywood, 13 mm thick;
to make the sidewalls, you need to use pine slats having a length of 231 cm, a width of 13 cm and a thickness of 3.6 cm;
materials for crossbars - you can use cuttings for shovels and process them thoroughly, you will need 12 holders, each of which has a diameter of 4 centimeters;
if you need to make children's crossbars, then it is better to use cuttings having a length of 121 cm;
fasteners - furniture bolts, metal corners or anchors, dowels, screws;
materials for surface treatment - stain, colored paints, varnish, primer, sandpaper;
tools - an electric drill (you can use a hand brace), a screwdriver, wrenches, screwdrivers, a hammer drill or an impact drill with Pobedit drill bits, wood crowns (special drills with a large diameter), an electric jigsaw, a set of wood files, a hand-held electric grinder.

If the wall bars are made of metal, then the following elements are needed:

for the manufacture of sidewalls, you need 2 metal tubes with a diameter of 31 mm and a length of 2.6 m, and if there are no tubes, they can be replaced with metal profiles with suitable dimensions;
to make the crossbars, you need 8 water pipes with a diameter of 31 millimeters;
electric or gas welding equipment;
to clean weld seams and burrs, you will need an angle grinder;
consumables (grinding discs, welding electrodes);
fasteners for fastening to the wall (dowels or anchor bolts, metal corners).

Making a Swedish ladder

Now let's talk about the types of children's sports complexes, and let's figure out how to make a Swedish ladder with your own hands.

Types of stairs

Conventionally, sports stairs can be divided into children's and adults. Both of them can be organized in the form of a complex, firmly attached to load-bearing walls and ceilings, or a compact exercise machine that can be freely moved around the apartment.

Horizontal bar with stairs for home mounted on the wall

Let's look at them all, and we'll start with options for children:

First on the list are models that are attached to partitions and walls with powerful anchors. This design is very stable and, with good fixation, can withstand heavy loads. Such options are very demanding on the strength of the walls - it is best to attach them to brick and concrete foundations, or, in extreme cases, to plasterboard partitions, but with the obligatory condition that during the installation of the wall special mortgages were installed to give the frame rigidity. If these conditions are not met, the ladder may fall along with the young athlete, damaging furniture and wall decoration along the way.

Spacer version DSK

The second option is spacer ladders. The strings of stairs and support pillars of such structures are equipped with retractable spacer locks that wedge the complex between the floor and ceiling. The option also falls into the category of the most stable and safe. Additionally, it is worth noting that the design is portable and does not require drilling the base.
They are perfect if your walls are not designed for loads, and the floor and ceiling are concrete floors. In this case, the structure is guaranteed to stand even with strong swings. It is worth abandoning this option when there is a suspended ceiling on the ceiling, and the floor is made of sagging boards.

DSC without fastenings

If the room for a Swedish staircase does not have any supports suitable for DSC, then you can purchase an independent option that does not require fixation. Of course, its stability will be much inferior to the first two options, but it’s better than nothing. The big advantage of such structures is unhindered movement in space.

Folding Swedish stairs

Very popular options are those that transform from an ordinary staircase into a full-fledged complex, with horizontal rungs, rings and rope. Their base is fastened to the wall, and the retractable part simply rests on the floor or is fixed with spacers.
Such complexes are convenient, first of all, because they take up very little space, while making it possible to place many different projectiles.

Now let's go over the options for home exercise equipment for adults.

Mini training complex

Designs for older users are distinguished primarily by their compactness and versatility. Very often you can find options without ladders, simply suspended from the ceiling.
When small in size, such simulators replace horizontal bars, parallel bars and other large equipment.

Portable complex for sports

Such exercise machines may not be attached to walls and ceilings, but can be portable, on legs, as in the photo above. With this complex you can train your arms, back, chest and abdominal muscles.

Portable trainer

Manufacturers are offering more and more compact, interesting options, suitable for both floor and ceiling exercises.

Complexes with counterweights

Some machines are equipped with a counterweight system for serious weight lifting. Punching bags and other devices for active sports can be hung on them.

Ladder with shelf

Swedish ladders for adults are often equipped with folding shelves on which the athlete can take a lying position and perform a set of certain physical exercises.

We have named only a small part of home sports equipment. For more details, you can watch the video in this article.