And my friend made his own bench out of wood. It’s very stury actually we’ve gone 585 on board presses before and it doesn’t wobble around at all. You’ve just got to use strong material for the support beams.
Miel,
Thanks for those pics!!
Excellent Effort!!!
[quote]rniel wrote:
Here’s the pad part. It’s just a bunch of pieces of plywood cut into half circle shapes then glued and screwed together. It has support from underneath on the base so it won’t come apart.[/quote]
This thing is badass genius!
Home made kettle bells:
various size ice creambuckets
Cement mix or quik-crete
Thick manilla rope OR bendable iron rods
Drill 2 holes in the side of your bucket.
Fill with quik crete
While the quik crete is soft shove the rope or rods (bent into a D shape) through the holes to simulate a handle.
Let dry.
You can weigh the cement down with lead shot if you want. I found these wicked circular shaped chunks of metal at home depot so i used them. I also have a set of rope KB handles too.You can take the bucket off with a kinfe or leave it on. I took mine off so i have chunks of concrete with metal circle thingys hanging out with tape all over them so they dont sratch you up. It’s amazing what concrete can do.
-chris
How much do your concrete kettlebells weigh. Can you make 30’s 40’s and 50’s with that?
Anybody have any suggestions for a dip station set up??
this is a REAL T-man thread
[quote]realpeanutbutter wrote:
Home made kettle bells:
various size ice creambuckets
Cement mix or quik-crete
Thick manilla rope OR bendable iron rods
Drill 2 holes in the side of your bucket.
Fill with quik crete
While the quik crete is soft shove the rope or rods (bent into a D shape) through the holes to simulate a handle.
Let dry.
You can weigh the cement down with lead shot if you want. I found these wicked circular shaped chunks of metal at home depot so i used them. I also have a set of rope KB handles too.You can take the bucket off with a kinfe or leave it on. I took mine off so i have chunks of concrete with metal circle thingys hanging out with tape all over them so they dont sratch you up. It’s amazing what concrete can do.
-chris[/quote]
Holy SHIT
doing this one ASAP
If i put lead shot in the cement they can get hella heavy dude. lead shot weighs a ton. My buddy just dropped some 10# standard weight plates into the cement before it dried to make heavier weights. they are a bit big sometimes but they work good as hell and you look like “a real hard comrade” if you will. ;o)
I can’t figure out what these D shaped ring thingies i have are for or called. and I can’t find them in home depot anymore, place is too big.
-chris
Had to try to keep this thread going. Here’s a pic of my barbell holder. A brick with pvc put inside the holes. Then blocks put in all the spaces to keep it upright. It holds all my barbells and dumbells pretty nicely.
I have a Keg to throw around on the beach.
Oh! and a Rock. Got it at the jetty.
Nothing like throwing a rock or keg running to it throwing it again and again to really confuse the beach goers.
This is my “poor mans glute/ham bench” based on the ones @ Sorinex website. 2 x 4’s an a couple pipes an the blue foam pool noodles for padding. Total cost roughly $20.
My brother is 260+ lbs. an it “hold” him but is a lil creeky.
Dip Bars for my nephew becasue he is to short to reach on a regular dip stand. Notice the floor flanges; @ the foot, thats to bolt it to the ground outside.All 1 inch piping. Cost roughly $30 free to him as a b-day present. I’ll have to close in the width a lil bit though.
Glad we are keeping this thread alive!
[quote]APE. wrote:
Dip Bars for my nephew becasue he is to short to reach on a regular dip stand. Notice the floor flanges; @ the foot, thats to bolt it to the ground outside.All 1 inch piping. Cost roughly $30 free to him as a b-day present. I’ll have to close in the width a lil bit though.[/quote]
Ive just located a place in the UK that sells stuff similar to that…
I predict a major construction some time soon…
:o)
My dip station. It is much harder to use than a normal one since I have to keep my elbows tucked in tightly or else I just fall.
This thread definitely rocks. I’m in Africa for the next year, the company has about 300 pounds of weight but only a bench, so we’ve come up with some improvisations.
We found an old military duffle, filled it with about 100 pounds of small lava rocks and taped it up. Wrap a couple of ratchet straps around it for handles and it’s great for all sorts of stuff.
I also use the bag for the cushion part of a GHR. I wedge my ankles under a book shelf and cram my knees into the bag. Works well cushioned with an old shirt.
We also use the ratchet straps like “Blast Straps” from one of the windows with bars over it. Great for bunches of random movements.
I braided a bunch of rope into a rope handle for curls and tricep stuff and face pulls with the bag across the floor.
We are working on a deadlift bar with a pipe and two 40 liter drums.
Would kill for a power rack, but we can’t even find much scrap wood to make one. We are comtemplating the strength of a door jam to hang a weighted bar with the ratchet straps to start the squats, then have a spotter release the straps.
I use the backs of two chairs for dips.
Just out of curiousity, do you think that it would be possible to build a GHR out of a wooden frame instead of metal? I don’t see why you can’t do it with a bunch of two by fours, the frame that is and even the board that you hold your feet against, just use lots of screws and decent wood.
For the leg holder, a few pipes covered in pads…
The only fly in the ointment might be making the cicular thing that you actually perform the exercise on…
Any ideas?
Someone already built one and has pics earlier in theis thread i think?? I definately saw it somewhere. If it’s not here then let me know and I’ll try find it for you.