captkronos
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Post by captkronos on Jan 16, 2022 1:02:33 GMT
Filled some plastic bats with sand, put a ball on top I cut off the ends of some walking weights, then some duct tape and Flex-seal black coating. 4 to 5lbs each
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Jan 16, 2022 2:05:00 GMT
I hope they don't split. We filled a kid's plastic bat with mortar at work once to play a sort of baseball kind of game with it. It broke in half after a few swings. We should have put some rebar in it. Anyway, it didn't matter, it was just for a laugh.
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Post by gruntbrain on Jan 16, 2022 15:05:29 GMT
For more cheap thrill laughs, reinforce a sand filled plastic bat with Duct Tape.
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Post by mr potatohead on Jan 18, 2022 10:55:05 GMT
Browsing and found an old POST of Bud Jefferies swinging his DIY 150#(+?) KB.
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Post by Deuce Gunner on Jan 23, 2022 11:18:09 GMT
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captkronos
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Post by captkronos on Feb 16, 2022 0:39:21 GMT
I call it the Ugly Mug, an old sledgehammer with ankle weights duct taped about 17lbs as a mace for swings
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Post by mr potatohead on Mar 8, 2022 23:41:44 GMT
Pair of DIY concrete dumbbells, 18Kg each, using a cut 2Kg plastic protein can:
I saw another DIY DB set that a guy finished with a spray can of black truck bed liner rubber coating. That sounds like a good idea.
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Post by stormshadow on Apr 28, 2022 17:20:09 GMT
Very clear build instructions too. It is like the "tomb of Hercules" of old
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Post by stormshadow on Apr 28, 2022 17:23:06 GMT
For those wondering what the heck is a tomb or H ercules
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Post by fredhutch on Apr 30, 2022 17:58:41 GMT
Hate to rain on anybody's parade, but the problem with that setup (and the Tomb of Hercules) is that the resistance falls off as your leverage increases, when it should do the opposite or at least remain constant. In Hoffman's "Functional Isometric Contraction" book John Grimek is shown doing leg presses in the power rack, using just a barbell and set up so it slides up and down in contact with the uprights. Looks workable enough to me. In Harry Good's "Keynote to Great Strength", he shows the old freestanding leg press, barbell just balanced on his feet, and goes one better by doing it with one leg, which seems nearly impossible but he did it. Back in my Togakure Ryu days we sometimes did a "leg press" of sorts by pushing a training partner up, although the resistance falls off with that one too.
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Post by Dave Reslo on Apr 30, 2022 18:51:05 GMT
I guess you could get it to increase towards the end of the press by getting it to start from below parallel, or else maybe use springs instead of weights.
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Post by fredhutch on Apr 30, 2022 18:54:34 GMT
That's not a bad idea, Dave. Now that you mention it, I suppose you could also hang chains from it like some powerlifters do, so the weight increases as you go up.
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Post by gruntbrain on Apr 30, 2022 19:59:03 GMT
I'll stick with the safety and convenience of single leg presses using high resistance , flat , wide(3" - 4" ) resistance bands . With that setup you can perform isotonics and yielding isometrics .
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Post by mr potatohead on Apr 30, 2022 20:26:33 GMT
That's not a bad idea, Dave. Now that you mention it, I suppose you could also hang chains from it like some powerlifters do, so the weight increases as you go up. One of exercises I like to do with my battle chains is to raise them overhead like a barble (Weider speak) press. It requires leaning and pulling back, trying to pull the chains straight - which I've found is impossible with the 15' or so of 3/8" logging chain - and a feel-good yielding isometric hold/pause under tension. It doesn't take long before I'm forced to stop after I get wobbly. I suppose I could do the same facing away from the chains, but that just now occurred to me, so I haven't tried it.
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Apr 30, 2022 23:34:29 GMT
The leg press could have bands attached so that the resistance increases as the weights get easier. You don't have to have one or the other. Combine the two.
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