Went to a scrap metal works yard and found a lot of old lead pieces, everything from tire weights to pipe couplers. My plan is to use concrete and make kettlebells with the lead inside them for added weight.
This site would be so much better if they allowed thumbnails!
Anybody have any suggestions or tips on homemade kettlebells?
Just bumping this baby, i can’t believe some of this stuff, fucking love it
rosstraining.com has tons of homemade gym equipment on it
I am going to make a sloshing pillar of pain tomorrow to use for my GPP session on Sunday. Damn, I can’t wait for the hurt.
This is a phenomenal piece of equipment, I can tons of exercises on it, take it anywhere, and use it outside.
P.S. Todays the last day they have it for the special price.
I got my lifting platform built this past weekend. 8x6, two layers of 3/4" tongue and groove plywood. I cut 2" holes in the bottom layer with a hole saw, and then mounted brackets with a threaded hole onto the bottom of the top layer, so that the brackets fall into the cutouts in the bottom layer and are competely hidden…
I then drilled 3/8" holes through the top layer of plywood and rubber. I picked up some clevis pipe hangers that I can now screw into the bracket from the top of the platform. The rod to the clevis can then hold a pair of bands to the platform, and the whole clevis is easily removable.
I also picked up a case of engineered hardwood flooring for $25 and laid this down the middle 4 feet of the platform.
It turned out really nice, and very convenient for attaching and removing bands. Much better than lugging 150 lb. dumbells around. I still need to put something around the edge though. I’ll try to get some pictures up in the next couple of days.
A couple pages ago on this formu there was a link to build some jerk blocks. The link is now dead but does anyone have these directions or ideas on how to build some heavy duty jerk blocks???
Dirty already.
With band attachments.
Clevis close up.
Damn tedro, that’s awesome. I was thinking about building a platform similar to that.
Wow, this thread is fantastic. Wilheim, your plans for the log, if you could throw on here, i would eternally be grateful
Can anyone advise me on fixing up this old bar? I’d like to take it apart to clean up and lube the bearings then see about removing the rust from the outside. I don’t know what the metal is. It’s not chrome.
Other than using a towel, any suggestion on doing T Bar Rows?
[quote]DF85 wrote:
Other than using a towel, any suggestion on doing T Bar Rows?[/quote]
Like this
[quote]DF85 wrote:
Other than using a towel, any suggestion on doing T Bar Rows?[/quote]
Like this
Trying to put up a picture of that bar… again.
[quote]on edge wrote:
Trying to put up a picture of that bar… again.[/quote]
Just unscrew the ends and regrease the bearings. Leave it rusty, rusty bars are the best. Better grip!
Just take some sand paper to it if you want but I wouldn’t bother.
Too bad I don’t have a digital camera anymore,
but I’ll psot what I made anyway w/ an explanation.
I bought 2 aluminum baseball bats. 1 is a child
16oz aluminum bat an another is a 32oz aluminum bat.
Each costed me a $1 @ a flea market.
I drilled the bottom handle an as expected they
are hollow.
I then went to a friends tire repair shop an bought
broken tire lead about 50 pounds for $7. (not sure the price regularly for this so not sure if I made a deal)
I melted the lead an funneled it into the drilled baseball
bats.
I now have what would be a cpl clubells, one weighing 16 pounds an 3 ounces & another weighing 28 pound an 2 ounces.
Let them set for about 4 or 5 days make sure the lead solidifies an I siliconed the end just incase it wants to fall out.
Total about $9 when you facor in the lead an cheap baseball bats.
Add $14 if you wanna count the ruined metal funnel that cost me about $5.
What is the heaviest aluminum baseball bats come in? Most I have found have not been over 32oz. I’m guessing the 28lbs 2oz is about as heavy as can make.Which is plenty enough for me jsut to experiment w/ them.