The physical development of the baby is one of the main priorities for caring parents. A child’s sports wall is able to help a child grow strong and healthy.
Let's find out what you should pay attention to when choosing such equipment, we’ll figure out how to make such a convenient tool for training at home.
What is the swedish wall?
Children’s sports walls for home are a simplified version of equipment, which is traditionally located around the perimeter of gyms in educational institutions.
For domestic use, manufacturers often offer equipment that consists of only one section. Therefore, a children's sports wall is delivered to the apartment and mounted without problems. It is a staircase from the ceiling to the floor, in the upper part of which there is a horizontal bar for pulling up.
Additionally, such inventory can be equipped with:
- benches;
- rope ladders;
- bars;
- soft grips and armrests;
- rope ladders;
- ropes.
What do classes on the wall give?
First of all, the children's sports wall allows the child to develop the flexibility of the whole body. Regular classes provide an opportunity to get a truly attractive, athletic figure. The operation of such equipment contributes to the training of the cardiovascular system. In the end, studying on the wall, the child receives a whole host of positive emotions.
Type of construction
What form does a household children's sports wall have? The Swedish wall can be represented as follows:
- I-shaped models are the simplest version. The design is presented in the form of 2 parallel posts connected by crossbars. It can be fixed by surprise or fixed to the wall. Such a solution does not provide for the possibility of using additional attachments.
- L-shaped models are the most common walls. The upper part of the structure is represented by a one-way handle or a simple horizontal bar. Suitable for placement in fairly cramped apartments.
- T-shaped models are an extremely practical solution. Similar designs are attached to the floor or ceiling at a loss. The staircase is located in the middle of the room, and from it in both directions to the walls all kinds of crossbars and ropes diverge.
- U-shaped models are the most massive designs designed for installation in spacious rooms. Suitable for picking with numerous additional rows of crossbars, rings, rope ladders.
Wooden children's sports wall
Often in the manufacture of children's walls for domestic use, beech or pine wood is used as the manufacturing material. All details are amenable to grinding and fitting, processed by paintwork.
What are the benefits of buying a wooden wall? It is worth noting the following:
- When using such equipment, the child does not have to feel uncomfortable. The tree gives a pleasant tactile sensation, has a slightly rough surface, does not cool as much as metal.
- Wooden children's sports Swedish walls for the house are less traumatic in comparison with metal. On the steps and crossbars of such models, the skin glides less.
However, wood products have a relatively low margin of safety. It is quite difficult to choose a reliable wall made of such a material that would withstand the loads that are on the structure when equipped with a bench for the bar, hanging bars.
Wood is less resistant to environmental influences. Therefore, it is advisable to operate such walls in dry rooms protected from direct sunlight.
Metal wall
Quite often, children's sports walls for a home are made of a hot-rolled metal profile. For such structures, a profile of 30 x 30 mm in size with a wall thickness of about 2 cm is used, which is quite enough to support the weight of the kids.
The main advantage of metal products is the highest strength, resistance to mechanical stress. This opens up the possibility of using a whole range of additional equipment, organizing exercises with weights. The metal children's sports wall can easily be supplemented with hinged bars, stops for the bar, benches for the press.
At the same time, metal is not as pleasant to the touch as wood. As a result of grinding with the hands of the user, the surface of the crossbars becomes slippery over time. Therefore, metal sports walls are considered more traumatic.
Mounts
There are several options for fixing a children's sports wall:
- Landing on special U-shaped staples. The children's sports wall, which is installed in the room, rests firmly against the floor with its legs, after which it is fixed with fasteners in 3-4 places to the wall. This option is not suitable when installing equipment in rooms with gypsum plasterboard ceilings.
- A fairly common solution is fixing the wall with spacers. The latter are installed between the floor and the ceiling. This solution looks irrational in the presence of suspended ceilings.
- Mixed fixation - a children's sports wall is delivered to the room, screwed to the wall, and then bursts between the floor and the ceiling. This installation method is considered the most reliable.
Wall Precautions
Safety is one of the main criteria according to which one or another children's Swedish wall should be chosen. The main factor here is the level of environmental friendliness of the material of manufacture. On this basis, it is better to give preference to structures made of natural wood.
If the wall is purchased for a very young child, classes should be held under the supervision of parents. Older children can exercise without support. But so that the child does not get hurt, under the inventory should be mattresses, rugs or mats. All this can come complete with a wall or purchased separately.
Exercises
It is not recommended to start using the sports Swedish wall for injuries or exacerbations of back diseases. Before training, be sure to stretch, which will protect against unpleasant tendon stretches.
It is worth highlighting a number of basic common exercises that can be performed on the Swedish wall:
- Pulling up. At first glance, it is a completely non-childish exercise. However, it is beneficial, even if the baby cannot fully raise its body. Thanks to the efforts made, the muscles of the back, arms and chest are involved.
- "Spring". Exercise makes the posture proportional, visually reduces the waist. For its implementation, the upper crossbar is captured in position with its back to the wall. The toes of the legs stretch up, the heels to the floor, and the chin is pressed to the chest.
- Bend your legs back. The position is taken facing the wall in the hanging on the crossbar, the feet are thrown behind the back and returned back. Regular exercise contributes to the development of the muscles of the legs and back.
- "Pendulum". It is carried out hanging on the crossbar with the back of the head against the wall, the legs are taken to one side, and then moved in the opposite direction. In this case, the muscles of the back and lower back are involved.
- Leg lift. The user is located in the back with his back to the bars, the limbs bend at the knees and move towards the chest, after which they are lowered to their original position. The exercise is designed to train the abdominal muscles.
Children's sports wall. Can you make it yourself?
Let's look at how to make a Swedish wall for a child with your own hands. First you need to prepare well-dried, seasoned wood. If the design will be used by young children, it is better to give preference to soft breeds - pine or linden. The latter are easier to process compared to the same beech, oak or ash.
Progress
The following steps are taken to make a children's Swedish wall:
- an edged board is purchased with a width of about 30 cm, a thickness of 4-5 cm and a length of about 2.5 m;
- the workpiece is cut along with a circular machine (15 cm each);
- wood is rounded off, sharp edges and corners are eliminated;
- in the blanks, which will play the role of parallel racks, holes are drilled under the crossbars;
- all surfaces are sanded with sandpaper;
- holes are made in the wall for mounting.
For the manufacture of crossbars, wooden blanks are cut out of a length of about 70 cm. The material is processed on a lathe until the diameter of such jumpers is 3.5 cm, which will be convenient for the child to grip. Finishing of the surface is carried out, if necessary, treatment with paints and varnishes.
To assemble the structure into a single whole, a whole set of fasteners may be required. This is, first of all: screws, thumbs, confirmations, bolts and nuts, hexagons, angles and dowels.
How to assemble a children's sports wall with your own hands? The drawings will help to understand this issue.
If desired, a self-made wall can be equipped with additional sports equipment: ropes, bars, horizontal bars, gymnastic rings.
Finally
As you can see, there are quite a few parameters that you should pay attention to when choosing a children's Swedish wall. Before giving preference to one or another option, it is advisable to ask the seller how high-quality materials for manufacturing such equipment are, to get acquainted with the characteristics of the presented model.
Another question is how much the child will like the children's sports wall. Photos of various options for the implementation of such equipment can be seen in this material. Illustrative examples will highlight several suitable options before shopping.
If not a single ready-made solution satisfies the needs of the child, it is worth considering the possibility of making the Swedish sports wall with your own hands.