lifting question

chaitrex

Hi, so I've lifted before and I like it just fine. I started lifting again when I was back home on vacation, because I have a couple of weights there. Since I've been back though, I've just been exercising around the house and trying to use my own body weight to increase muscle, because I am broke right now!
I can't afford to join a gym these days, but I'm also worried I can't afford weights.
I mean, when I was lifting before, I needed to use heavier weights within just a couple weeks. Won't this get expensive fast?

addisondisease2

Body weight exercises can take you a long way without any purchases.

chaitrex

Body weight exercises can take you a long way without any purchases.

Good to hear! I'll stick with it then, thanks!

akjmart2002

Spend $30 on a door frame pull up bar and use it to blast your upper body and core. It will take you a long way.

withervein

You can also do a lot by filling a couple of bags/briefcases with some heavy stuff for rows/curls.

An old basketball can be filled with play sand and duct taped back up for a medicine ball.

The wonderful lady at Stumptuous.com put put together the basics of a home gym for about $100 total:
A steel box from IKEA to hold most of the stuff, tucked under the table in the corner (you can see the lid off to the right, which goes on the box when not in use)
Collars to hold the plates on the dumbbell handles and barbell
2 folded towels, to protect the floor from the weight plates; they also come in handy for loading the bars, as I put the plates on the towels and slide them on to the bar
2 small wraparound 1 lb wrist weights, which come in handy for adding small increments of weight to dumbbells or barbell – I just wrap them around the ends of the bars
2 standard dumbbell handles
Weight plates in varying sizes – I have laid out a couple each of 2.5, 5, and 10 lb plates; I own several of each plus some larger ones, which go on a shelf in the hallway
A jump rope
A little timer for timing intervals
An 8 lb sledgehammer for Shovelglove exercises
A standard barbell, which stands up in an unused corner when not in use
That floor space, perhaps 25 to 30 feet square (just enough to swing the jump rope)
A doorway pullup bar (not shown)
My front steps, as well as the large outdoor staircase down the street