Hello. This is my first time posting anything on here. I normally peruse BB.com, but this site looks to have a better powerlifting community, which is what has me so interested in it. I’ve been lifting for about a year now with a friend I went to school with. He really got me motivated to get off my fat ass and hit the weights and since then, it has become my life.
It’s my life’s dream to be a world class powerlifter and get to compete next to the greats like Big Z and Magnus and Konstantine, but I have a problem. I recently graduated from high school and moved out of my mother’s house, but the new town I am living has no gym and and I have no car to get me back and forth to my old gym that’s over 30 miles away.
I haven’t worked out in over two weeks and I absolutely hate it; I feel myself getting weaker and I don’t know what to do about. I was wondering if any of you fine gentlemen could instruct me in some form or another. I need to know of any exercises or anything I can do around my house to continue building strength and getting bigger, without using weights.
I am in the process of saving up for some form of weight set, but in the meantime I would like to know of things I can do of a calisthenics nature that could possibly boost my strength and help in my goal of becoming a great lifter. Any help or advice that is offered will be most greatly appreciated. I admire the hell out of every single one of you for your dedication to this great sport of ours.
NO ! Work an extra shift in your job, and got a scooter or bike or whatever and get to the gym or save up for a garage gym. Calisthenics I wont do shit. If you want it bad enough make it happen !
Pull Ups bar from the doorway. Buy some rings (with straps $15) and do Ring dips, Inverted Rows, and Ring Push Ups. You Tube videos on TRX / Rings will show you they will give you a better workout than weights ever could.
[quote]Krinks wrote:
Pull Ups bar from the doorway. Buy some rings (with straps $15) and do Ring dips, Inverted Rows, and Ring Push Ups. You Tube videos on TRX / Rings will show you they will give you a better workout than weights ever could. [/quote]
This is on the right track to some extent. If you absolutely cannot get to the gym get a pull up bar, blast straps or rings, and some bands. Check out the exercise index on EFS for exercises with blast straps. But you’ll really need to try and get a barbell and some weights, so you can at least do heavy presses, pulls and rows, and higher rep front squats/overhead squats, and floor presses.
If you’re serious about powerlifting, a routine that doesn’t involve a barbell and the major lifts (or variations thereof) is not going to cut it. I’m not sure what the hell a “better workout” is, but the rings by themselves will not come close to an effective powerlifting training session, sorry. A barbell and weights, and then a power rack and a bench, is what you’d want for the home gym.
Do you have access to an army duffle bag? How about some old pillow cases, buckets, or steel barrels lying around. A duffle bag or pillow cases can be filled with sand and used to bear hug for lifts from the ground, over head presses, mock bench presses, carries for distance, front or back squats, etc.- odd lifts that can be used to build or maintain strength.
Buckets and barrels can be loaded with rocks and/or dirt etc. for odd lifts too. If you have a friend they can put the pillow or duffle bag on your back for push ups. Do some sprinting. Push a car while someone steers. Use what you have around you and as bonus you’ll build functional strength until you get to the gym. Do farmer’s carries using loaded anything you can grip in each hand. Be creative and stay strong.
It’s my life’s dream to be a world class powerlifter and get to compete next to the greats like Big Z and Magnus and Konstantine, but I have a problem. I recently graduated from high school and moved out of my mother’s house, but the new town I am living has no gym and and I have no car to get me back and forth to my old gym that’s over 30 miles away. [/quote]
You will NOT meet those goals without lots of time and weights of some sort. In your position, you need to get creative. Maybe go to an Army / Navy surplus store and get a duffle bag. Fill that up with sand and toss it around. CRAIGSLIST is a great resource typically to find stuff for lifting. This is the time when only you can determine how bad you want to reach those goals. Devise a plan and get to work. One day you’ll have better resources and can adjust your plan.
edit: shit man, I didn’t read up. lol. o-well I basically said the same as that dude so that’s two similar opinions that are similar so they can’t be too crazy
[quote]Krinks wrote:
If you think you need weights, you obviously have never seen an average adult that is capable of an Iron Cross or a Muscle Up on rings. [/quote]
While that is an impressive feat, and I have the utmost respect for those in the gymnastics community, I have never been amazed by the physique, intimidated, want to look like one of those individuals. Just like I am impressed with someone who can run a marathon, I do not want to look like an anorexic skinny jeans wearing dude.
[quote]Krinks wrote:
If you think you need weights, you obviously have never seen an average adult that is capable of an Iron Cross or a Muscle Up on rings. [/quote]
Read the first post, he’s trying to become a competitive powerlifter.
make some concrete weights and get some chainlink top rail.
fill toprail with wet concrete(not easy but doable)
let set up.
make a form of some sort id say paint cans/or some other round volume holding container.
fill container with concrete, if you can use 1 bag per two containers…itll weigh roughly 80lbs + the weight of the bar.
put bar in center of container, let one side harden, repeat for other side.
start squating/deadlifting/benching said bar.
need more weight, buy some chains, and find bigger containers to make more concrete weights and bars.
[quote]Krinks wrote:
If you think you need weights, you obviously have never seen an average adult that is capable of an Iron Cross or a Muscle Up on rings. [/quote]
Read the first post, he’s trying to become a competitive powerlifter.[/quote]
I did read it. The average gymnast who doesn’t go near weights can lift multiples of their own bodyweight from their rings work alone.
[quote]Krinks wrote:
If you think you need weights, you obviously have never seen an average adult that is capable of an Iron Cross or a Muscle Up on rings. [/quote]
Read the first post, he’s trying to become a competitive powerlifter.[/quote]
I did read it. The average gymnast who doesn’t go near weights can lift multiples of their own bodyweight from their rings work alone. [/quote]
Dude shut the hell up. What are you doing in the powerlifting section, you can’t become a competitive strongman/powerlifter doing rings.
[quote]Krinks wrote:
If you think you need weights, you obviously have never seen an average adult that is capable of an Iron Cross or a Muscle Up on rings. [/quote]
Read the first post, he’s trying to become a competitive powerlifter.[/quote]
I did read it. The average gymnast who doesn’t go near weights can lift multiples of their own bodyweight from their rings work alone. [/quote]
You sir are a moron. Crawl back to the gymnastics and crossfit forums.
It is your dream, fucking make it happen. Go over to craigs list, buy a barbell, and some plates. There, you can then overhead press, deadlift, clean, and snatch. Buy some squat racks, and you can then squat/front squat. Bam, everything you need to do except bench. Rig something up for floor presses if that is all the money you can use at the moment, then buy a bench as soon as possible. At that point you can do everything that you NEED.
