The Best Products to Dig Tunnels & Scale Walls

Fat Gripz are a pair of rubber-like cylinders that slide over barbells, dumbbells, pull-up bars, monkey bars, or car steering wheels to thicken them up. Many believe the use of thick-handled bars turbocharges upper body power and muscle development because they require more muscles in the hands, forearms, and upper arm areas to fire during gripping and prolonged holding processes. Fat Gripz replicate the effect of thick bars, but profess to be even better due to their versatility and ease of application. Relative to the cost of purchasing a complete line of thick-bar barbells, dumbbells, etc., they are also fairly cheap. The slip-on attachments clamp easily to their hosts, and claim to stay put without sliding or compressing during use.

Feel like you're about to hit a wall with your fitness regimen? The Doorway Fitness Tower is a next-level pull-up bar that brings over 70 exercises to the entrance to your bedroom, living room, or home gym.

In addition to its overhead pull-up / chin-up bar, the Doorway Fitness Tower extends down to incorporate a dip station and bars for additional ab and leg work. That bottom half also swings forward for horizontal exercises, such as pushups, supine pull-ups, planks, and ab roll-out style moves. The DFT's various holding and balance points can also help with post-workout stretching.

Hopefully you're not accumulating tunnel-digging tools and honing your tunnel-digging skills to dig yourself out of the apocalypse...but if you are, hey, the Apocalypse Shovel is doubly good for you.

It's also handy for burying 2018 (so are these tips for how to get rid of the year's bad juju.)

Mykel Hawke's Apocalypse Shovel will help you whack, impale, and chop it up on its way into the ground too. A super rugged survivalist's multi-tool, the Apocalypse Shovel incorporates a fixed blade knife with plain edge and serrated spine, a pick, axe, compass, glass breaker, and bow drill divot hole into a knurled steel handle and shovel head made with two different grades of hardened stainless steel. Like the knife, the shovel head also doubles up with a serrated edge on one side and sharpened edge on the other. The shovel assembly breaks down and stores in an included hi-tensile nylon pouch when not in use.

What are the chances of finding a ladder tall enough to take you to the top of a huge, imposing 30' wall? Pretty good if you've got an Amazon account. This Louisville Ladder extends all the way up to 40', and even if you need to go, say, another 15' to get to the top, the rungs of this 300-pound-capacity climbing buddy will give you a terrific boost.

Now, for getting down the other side. Well you could rig the ladder on some sort of pulley system you install to hoist it up and over from the top of the wall, but your leverage from that position could be questionable, depending on the wall's thickness. I'd recommend ditching the ladder on side #1, and rappelling down side #2 with one of the following.