I recently put a post on Thib’s Zone but I figured I would start a thread to get ya’lls ideas. I know that there are a lot of smarter people than me are members of this site. Perhaps you can help me.
I work offshore as an Engineer on a drilling rig. In the past I have always worked on rigs in the gulf. These rigs actually had great weight rooms. However, I just got transfered to a rig off the coast of Trinidad. The weight room on this rig sucks! The weight room contains: Smith machine with 250lbs, 2 25lbs dumbbells, a universal gym, treadmill, bike, and rowing machine (pretty bad I know).
My rotations will be three weeks on, three weeks off. I am not too sure how I should attack this. I can lift hardcore on my days off as I will have plenty of free time. I am thinking of doing some mini-programs; mass building when at home, fat loss offshore.
I was planning on starting the Mutation series recently but not too sure if this would be the best thing to do with my work situation. I just finished CW’s New Frontier program and need to do some sort of a fat loss program. I am 6’3", 240lbs, and 17% bf.
Any suggestions. I would appreciate it. Thanks.
I added a picture of my rig for your viewing pleasure. Looks like a home away from home don’t it?
When you’re at home get some all thread, 2 sections with nuts and washers on each side, you might be able to find theses in the parts locker on the rig. Use the old valve inserts from the mud pump modules and bolt them to the ends of your all thread, this will make a nice set of dumbells, and you can add and subtract weight.
If they ever replace the chains on the mud pumps or drawworks try to save these, you can cut them in half and attach them to the end of a barbell and use them for overhead presses,or curls the amount of weight will increase as you bring the weight up.This is reall good.
If they ever service the rotary table and replace the bearings save these, the little bearings, when welded with a bar inbetween will make you an 8 pound dumbell, the larger bearings will make a 17-18 pound dumbell.
Using the heavy chains you can use the barbell to squat.
5)Curl the full buckets of pipe dope, you can do this in the parts room, possibly without PPE.
I noticed you are on a barge rig, use a bit breaker for bent over rows. It has too handles and it some what heavy.
Being on a barge rig, you have to have spare floor tools, Tongs, slips etc…Use the spare slips, either located on the roof of engine enclosure, or on the helideck, and curl these, you can also use them for one handed cleans,( you’d have to be one swole suma-bitch to do this).You could also use these for farmers carries, start just outside your office window and make the loop around the rig back to the piperacks.
Use a small nylon strap and thread some shackles into it and use this.
By the way, who do you work for? Trinidad is a long way to go just work a barge rig.
I’ve been on the rigs and it’s all about improvising, and more times than not if there’s a welder on board they will make things for you if they are not too busy.
When you’re at home get some all thread, 2 sections with nuts and washers on each side, you might be able to find theses in the parts locker on the rig. Use the old valve inserts from the mud pump modules and bolt them to the ends of your all thread, this will make a nice set of dumbells, and you can add and subtract weight.
If they ever replace the chains on the mud pumps or drawworks try to save these, you can cut them in half and attach them to the end of a barbell and use them for overhead presses,or curls the amount of weight will increase as you bring the weight up.This is reall good.
If they ever service the rotary table and replace the bearings save these, the little bearings, when welded with a bar inbetween will make you an 8 pound dumbell, the larger bearings will make a 17-18 pound dumbell.
Using the heavy chains you can use the barbell to squat.
5)Curl the full buckets of pipe dope, you can do this in the parts room, possibly without PPE.
I noticed you are on a barge rig, use a bit breaker for bent over rows. It has too handles and it some what heavy.
Being on a barge rig, you have to have spare floor tools, Tongs, slips etc…Use the spare slips, either located on the roof of engine enclosure, or on the helideck, and curl these, you can also use them for one handed cleans,( you’d have to be one swole suma-bitch to do this).You could also use these for farmers carries, start just outside your office window and make the loop around the rig back to the piperacks.
Use a small nylon strap and thread some shackles into it and use this.
By the way, who do you work for? Trinidad is a long way to go just work a barge rig.
I’ve been on the rigs and it’s all about improvising, and more times than not if there’s a welder on board they will make things for you if they are not too busy.
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Yea, sounds like you are no stranger to a rig. Those are some very interesting ideas. Its too bad that that violates pretty much all our safety rules. I have to fill out a hot permit just to take a damn picture of a used bit on the main deck.
Its actually not a barge rig…its a jackup. I think we are in 300ft of water right now. I work for BHP Billiton which is an operator and I am the rigsite drilling engineer. I usually work in the Gulf on semi-subs and drill ships in 4000-8000ft of water so this is a bit different than I am used to.
I don’t really think that the Trinidadians give a shit about me lifting weights and they wont do shit to help. The weight room is also the rec/computer room and I have to walk around groups of guys playing video games or checkers in the way.
get a package of flex bands from elitefts and use them. you get a ton fo resistanc and all your favorite moves.
for fat loss just do body weight shit in high reps and 1 arm snatch heavy shit a lot without resting. Grab some heavy shit and run around the rig. farmers like this get you lean.
OR
grab a scott pak and run around a lot. that will scare the shit out of everyone. You could carry 1 on your back and one in each hand.
Get a safety harness and drag some heavy shit behind you at all times and they will be like: “It’s that guy thats always dragging shit around.”
[quote]realpeanutbutter wrote:
Wow, that’s a pretty good jimmy rig plan.
I was going to say you could get good at doing:
1 arm push ups
pistols
handstand push ups
Chinups (gotta be something on there)
get a package of flex bands from elitefts and use them. you get a ton fo resistanc and all your favorite moves.
for fat loss just do body weight shit in high reps and 1 arm snatch heavy shit a lot without resting. Grab some heavy shit and run around the rig. farmers like this get you lean.
OR
grab a scott pak and run around a lot. that will scare the shit out of everyone. You could carry 1 on your back and one in each hand.
Get a safety harness and drag some heavy shit behind you at all times and they will be like: “It’s that guy thats always dragging shit around.”
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I do chins/pulls on the top of the Smith machine. I can’t go all the way up though because the ceiling is about 6in above the bar.
Those flex bands are a hell of an idea…good call and will do.
This past hitch (trip offshore) I would do bench on the Smith with all the weights, barbell rows, cable work on the universal gym, various ab exercises, and pushups with towels to allow sliding.
Can’t do anything with lifting outside or even close too it. Thats a good way to get run off on a rig.
I work for Parker Drilling, I am the mechanical supervisor. I have been on a float and have had limited resources. I know what you mean about limited rescources. I’s not so bad, just remember to improvise, it will help you in the long run,
Blast straps or rings would be a great idea. I also really like the DB idea. You could get a thick bar made on the rig if they have extra 2in pipe, or you could buy a barbell and leave it on the rig, that along with the chains and bands you should get some good training…Oh yeah SAND BAGS LOTS OF EM.
Good luck
Will42
There are other pull ups you can do. If you do the type where your grip faces different directions and are close together and you pull to one side and then the other, your head shouldn’t touch the ceiling.
Also I’m 6ft 2 and doing chins from my knees on the ground I don’t come near the ceiling
Fat loss with giant sets seems feasible. You could do giant sets of chins, push-ups, bench dips, laterals or something similar.
Just thinking out loud, but last BHP job I did all slings had to be relplaced after 6 months of service. If disposal regulations aren’t prohibitive then the old slings could be cut into strips in the safe welding areas and duct taped together to make something heavy. I suppose the same could be done for old drill line when they slip and cut.
I’ve worked on some pretty ratty jackups in the GoM. After getting on the welder’s good side we built a bench and some weights (be sure to add a coat of primer otherwise it will rust quick). Then it was a matter of sucking up to the HLO to get some space under the helideck (usually a PPE free area) to store the equipment.
