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Why would you add sand?

Thanks! And yes, 1 inch pvc could work, but I recommend going thicker if you can - for the extra stability and stiffness.

Just go to your local hardware store and pickup all the fittings, pipe, and glue yourself. And you don't need caps for the ends. You can use couplings to save money and it does the exact same thing. I'm in Canada and USA prices are definitely lower then over here. $318 doesn't make sense to me. I bought all the fittings for $30, $20 for the 10ft pipe length, and $8 for glue. I built the same thing today for $60. Sure it's not $25, but I'd imagine you can buy all the same stuff in the USA for probably $45. Shop around and good luck!

Yup, don't buy online with the links. Go to your local hardware store and buy the materials. With inflation they'll be a bit more expensive, but $318 is absurd. The links are there more as examples of materials to buy. The goal is to get you working out, not send you to the poor house 🤣🤣

How time flies! I procured everything locally a year ago and have these for a similar price as cited by the first reply. Working like a charm and gives me solid workouts between playing with my toddler. Thanks for the video!

1. Lookup the breaking capacity in lbs of Schedule 80 PVC and get back to me. 2. Look at the date on this video and think about "inflation" 3. Lookup the price of a similar sized set of paralletes and get back to me. To answer "why?", sometimes, if you travel like I do, you will be in a place where you don't have access to equipment like this. This was made during the pandemic in Indonesia where a quality set of parallettes is extremely hard to come by. This was a solution. I'll let you connect the dots.

@@WellFitCommunity the cheapest one I could find cost about 1/3 of the PVC pipe's price, the more expensive, wooden ones are at about the same price as the PVC pipe (without even adding the joints). I couldn't find anything on PVC 80 breaking capacity, it has a pretty high tensile strength and can withstand high pressure, but that's not the same thing as putting weight on it (I don't think they even test that).

So, simple economics, buy the wooden parallettes and save yourself the time. Especially if theyre high quality wooden parallettes which are gold standard and better for grip if you're doing handstands or anything inverted. As I said before, those (reasonably priced wooden parallettes) weren't available in Indonesia where I was at when I made this video. This video is for anyone (like me) who needs an Improvised option and can find the materials for a reasonable price. So if you have better options. Just disregard the video or enjoy the show. As for strength, I've used these same parallettes since they were made, for everything from simple calisthenics to handstands. I've worked with PVC enough that I trust them with my weight. Burst pressure strength (which is what you're thinking) is different than tensile strength which measures the amount of weight a pipe can handle before it deforms, whixh for this type of pipe is 1000lbs. But back to the top point. If you can get a reasonably priced set of prefabricated high quality wood parallettes, save yourself the time and money and go for those. I guarantee you'll enjoy the feel of wood more than PVC.