Homemade exercise equipment!

GaiaGirl1992

I was doing a search today out of boredom, and I thought this would be great!

Make a cheap kettlebell using a milk or juice jug. Fill a clean, plastic gallon jug or 2 liter bottle (the kind with a handle) with water. Now it is ready for use it as a kettlebell or an arm weight.

Use canned goods that fit in your hands as simple hand weights. Use large canned goods as heavier weights or kettle balls.


3 Choose a sock or two. Fill a clean sock with pebbles or dry beans. Sew or glue the open end closed. Then sew the ends together (or attach with Velcro) and use as a wrist weight.

4 Use packets of rice or beans for mini-weights. No need to do anything else than use them for bicep curls and other small weight-lifting moves.

5 If you're really looking to get a workout, try filling a 5-gallon bucket with anything that suits you, from sand to rocks or even water. Use it to do curls or attatch two of them to a bar or board and use as a bench press.

6 Another technique for home made kettlebells is to wrap a rope around the handle of a dumbbell. The thicker the rope, the more this will work your grip. Grab both ends of the rope so the dumbbell hangs below your hand. Now you can do swings and presses and have the displaced weigth effect of kettlebells. When you need to adjust the weight, simply use a different size dumbbell.

7 To make something to use as dumbbell: Scotch tape some water PLASTIC bottles around your forearm (scotch tape does NOT touch your skin, it only wraps the bottles together) just tight enough not to make them slide away from your arms. You can fill them with sand and (after you fill them completely with sand) you also put water. Doing so you have a +50% weight on each bottle.

To make a barbell: Take 2 or more packs of bottles (it's usually 6 packs) and scotch tape them symmetrically (taking measurements before you do it) to an iron bar you can grip easily.
If these 24kg (6bottles x2kg x2 packs) are too much, do NOT use half filled bottles, bottles must always be full with not even an air bubble in it to avoid shaking.
Scotch taping must be functional: make horizontal,vertical and diagonal rounds to wrap the packs to the bar.
Do not try big grips like ropes etc if you're not a pro.

taken from:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Homemade-Weight-Set

SixCatFaerie

Interesting... Hmmm... may have to try some of these!