What can i use to make HEAVY homemade weights?

amberrro
amberrro Posts: 58
in Fitness and Exercise
I am skinny fat and am currently using small drinks bottles with stones in but they are too light :/ what can i use instead??

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  • redheadedgal
    redheadedgal Posts: 149 Member
    milk jugs (gallon) or laundry detergent jugs, clorox bottles, etc filled with sand.
  • Alisha_countrymama
    Alisha_countrymama Posts: 821 Member
    milk jugs (gallon) or laundry detergent jugs, clorox bottles, etc filled with sand.

    good idea!! :)
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    Look up various forms of stone lifting exercises.

    Borrow or rent a small truck if you don't have one. Go to your local river or water way. Find one or two of the heaviest individual rocks you can manage to pick up without crippling yourself. Take them home with you. Follow stone lifting training. Once those are too light, repeat the process. It's free, other than the truck rental if you have to go that route.
  • SonyaCele
    SonyaCele Posts: 2,841 Member
    your own body weight, home made TRX straps
  • Loftearmen
    Loftearmen Posts: 380
    Make a set of atlas stones
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Check craigslist for cheap real weights?
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    Small kids. Not even joking
  • 1258936
    1258936 Posts: 115 Member
    Milk jugs are great. Sand or water will work wonders. Check out NerdFitness.com they have a beginners body weight routine that includes the milk jug idea. They rock. Good luck!
  • Yogi_Carl
    Yogi_Carl Posts: 1,906 Member
    You don't need any external weights to build strength.

    Look up website: "You Are Your Own Gym", bodyweight exercises.

    Also a good read is "Convict Conditioning".

    Weights are not the only way.
  • nashsheri33
    nashsheri33 Posts: 225 Member
    my dog used to sit on my back when i did pushups.

    but the milk jugs filled with sand it a great idea. and you don't have to fill them all the way in the beginning. you can increase a little at a time.
  • porkchop_13
    porkchop_13 Posts: 122
    milk jugs (gallon) or laundry detergent jugs, clorox bottles, etc filled with sand.

    good idea!! :)

    that is a REALLY good idea, i never thought of the laundry detergent jugs. Thanks for the tip!
  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
    Look up DIY boxing bags. If you can do a turkish getup with a two bill bag, you're strong.
  • Jxnsmma
    Jxnsmma Posts: 919 Member
    use your own bodyweight. you dont need weights. do 10 different kinds of pushups, 10 different kinds of squats, 10 different kinds of lunges, 100 different kinds of crunches, bench dips, bridges, planks, mountainclimbers, other plyometrics, step ups, go running. Burn some calories. Instead of spending time creating 10 different threads with the same questions and not listening to any of the advice that youve been given, go exercise! Doesnt matter what you weigh. if you put on some muscle you might weigh more, but look more toned, whichs sounds like your goal.

    and abs are made in the kitchen. Eat clean and watch your refined carbs...

    now go sweat a little would ya?
  • TigressPat
    TigressPat Posts: 722
    Make a set of atlas stones
    lol
  • waldo56
    waldo56 Posts: 1,861 Member
    Your body.
  • scorpio516
    scorpio516 Posts: 955 Member
    50lb bag of rice. Under $20 at your local Asian market.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    50lb bag of rice. Under $20 at your local Asian market.

    50 lbs. is barely more than an empty barbell. That hardly qualifies as heavy for...well...anyone, contrary to what most employers' insurance companies would like everyone to believe.

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