Improvised Weight Training?
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Topic: Improvised Weight Training?
Posted By: VeritasVS
Subject: Improvised Weight Training?
Date Posted: 5/11/14 at 12:00pm
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Hello everyone! So the problem is as follows: I am training to compete in the games and I see that many of you are working like crazy in the gym. However, I have the issue that I cannot afford a gym membership nor do I own any weights. A friend has a home gym set up but I do not get to go see him often. Are there any ways I can make improvised weights which I can use to exercise for the Games? Perhaps milk jugs filled with water or sand attached to a rope or heavy tree stumps with attached handles? Thanks! ------------- Beginning training for the games! |
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Posted By: plockton
Date Posted: 5/11/14 at 8:06pm
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do you have a car? push it on grass fifty feet; get a thick rope, brace your feet and pull your car back the fifty feet. do this for sets do you have a sledgehammer? an old truck tire? slam the tire with the sledge, right and left handed for a lot of reps, you choose; no tire? beat the crap out of your car (just kidding) do you have a yard? mark off thirty paces and run sprints, 50, 75, 100% speed do you have a wheelbarrow? fill it with dirt and carry it the thirty paces for time.. do you have a little brother or child, maybe a wife? have him/her straddle your neck, sitting on your shoulders while you do squats; do a lot of them football great All-American herschel walker never lifted weights, preferring pushups, chins and situps; might work for you too |
Posted By: Hapy
Date Posted: 5/11/14 at 8:12pm
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Here's an article that Calrton Shedrick wrote which should give you some good ideas for all sorts of bodyweight only drills: http://www.dragondoor.com/articles/bodyweight-drills-for-muscular-development/" rel="nofollow - http://www.dragondoor.com/articles/bodyweight-drills-for-muscular-development/ ------------- Real Men Wear Purple Tinky Winky Throw Far! http://www.facebook.com/CVTSA" rel="nofollow - Central Vermont Strength Association |
Posted By: VeritasVS
Date Posted: 5/11/14 at 10:32pm
THank you so much for all of the ideas! Sadly I do not have any of those things except a place I can sprint/do other bodyweight exercises and a wife, but I'm not quite strong enough to lift her on my shoulders yet. Either way, I will make due with what I have and maybe get a sledge and a tire to practice with! ------------- Beginning training for the games! |
plockton wrote:Posted By: VeritasVS
Date Posted: 5/11/14 at 10:32pm
Thank you for the link! It will be a great help! ------------- Beginning training for the games! |