DIY Mounts for a Heavy Bag

A heavy bag is a central piece of equipment in any boxing training program, so it is critical to include one in a home gym. Assuming there are solid wood joists in the ceiling, any room with enough space to move around the heavy bag can be turned into a home gym. While there are a variety of specially made mounting kits for heavy bags, strictly speaking, you can mount even the biggest heavy bags using parts found in any hardware store.

Things You'll Need

  • For bags less than 75 pounds:
  • Drill with wood bits
  • Eye-bolt
  • Washer
  • Nut
  • Wrench
  • Heavy bag spring
  • For bags more than 75 pounds:
  • Drill with wood bits
  • Two eye-bolts
  • Two washers
  • Two nuts
  • Wrench
  • Two heavy bag springs
  • Chain
  • Two S-hooks
  • Eye-ring
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Instructions

  1. Heavy Bags Less Than 75 Pounds

    • 1

      Select a drill bit for wood matching the width of your eye-bolt. Fit that bit to your drill.

    • 2

      Climb a step ladder and drill a hole through the side of a ceiling joist, in roughly the mid-point between the floor boards and the bottom of the joist.

    • 3

      Insert the eye-bolt through the drill hole. Place a washer over the stem of the bolt, thread a nut on the screw threads, and turn the nut down the stem as far as you can by hand. Finish tightening the bolt with an appropriately sized wrench.

    • 4

      Hang the heavy bag spring from the eye-bolt and hook the chains from the heavy bag to the bottom of the spring.

    Heavy Bags More Than 75 Pounds

    • 5

      Repeat Steps 1 and 2 from the procedure above to drill a hole for an eye-bolt in one ceiling joist.

    • 6

      Push a pole through the drill hole until it touches the joist just across from it. Mark that point with a pencil. Then, measure the distance from the drill hole and the wall, and check the pencil mark to make sure that measurement matches and the pencil mark is directly across from the drill hole.

    • 7

      Drill a second hole at the pencil mark. Install eye-bolts with washers and nuts into both drill holes so the eye-loops face each other, following the procedure used in Step 3 above.

    • 8

      Thread a chain through both eye-hooks. Attach two S-hooks to the ends of the chain and close the tops of those S-hooks with pliers. Hook the bottom of both S-hooks around an eye-ring and close the bottom of the S-hooks with pliers. The result is a chain triangle with an eye-ring at the bottom.

    • 9

      Hang the heavy bag spring from the eye-ring, then hook the heavy bag's chains to the spring. You have now spread the weight and strain of bearing the heavy bag from one eye-bolt to two.