My university gym kind of sucks so I’ve taken to trying to get as much lifting done at home. I just dis-assembled and carried in a brand new reverse hyper machine piece by piece at 10pm and people were looking at me like I was building a bomb. my apartment is tiny so the machine basically takes up half of it. I’ve found a great chinup bar across the street at the hospital, and I’m on the lookout for a junkyard tire so I can do sled drags in my alleyway.
i can’t wait until its freezing out and im out there dragging a makeshift sled back and forth while they sit on their balconies and smoke. im thinking of making a really ghetto squat rack between two old poles that are outside too, i could get someone to weld on two L plates to hold a barbell and i’ll leave it out there so it gets all rusty. awesome.
I find rust on a barbell to be pre-chalked! Just make sure to have your tetanous (sp) shot. My neighbors think I’m a steroid abusing freak and a socially deviant individual. Actually the greater part of the this small podunk fuckhead town I live in thinks that way.
[quote]fatcat wrote:
My university gym kind of sucks so I’ve taken to trying to get as much lifting done at home. I just dis-assembled and carried in a brand new reverse hyper machine piece by piece at 10pm and people were looking at me like I was building a bomb. my apartment is tiny so the machine basically takes up half of it. I’ve found a great chinup bar across the street at the hospital, and I’m on the lookout for a junkyard tire so I can do sled drags in my alleyway.
i can’t wait until its freezing out and im out there dragging a makeshift sled back and forth while they sit on their balconies and smoke. im thinking of making a really ghetto squat rack between two old poles that are outside too, i could get someone to weld on two L plates to hold a barbell and i’ll leave it out there so it gets all rusty. awesome. [/quote]
If it ain’t rainin’, you aren’t trainin’
Learn how to weld, your college should have a class in MIG welding, and build your own shit. You can rent a welder at home depot or make your projects in class. You’ll be the next Arthur Jones.
[quote]wfifer wrote:
One of my neighbors calls me Hercules. The other one watches me when I work out in my backyard shirtless. I need to move. =/[/quote]
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
…yeah go spend $400 on a college welding class (do colleges other than trade schools even have them?) so that you can build a squat rack. good plan.[/quote]
but with the class you’d have the welding knowledge… so its not such a bad idea.
welding aint easy if you’ve ever tried it by any chance.
[quote]fatcat wrote:
welding aint easy if you’ve ever tried it by any chance. [/quote]
What’s hard about it? Even spot welds would be fine for the rack itself. Safety pins would need bead welds obviously or pins if you make it adjustable.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
wfifer wrote:
One of my neighbors calls me Hercules. The other one watches me when I work out in my backyard shirtless. I need to move. =/
the kitchen people at my work call me burro[/quote]