Make a homemade Weight Set

How to Make a Homemade Weight Set

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Weights for improving your strength and fitness can be made out of many common household items. Milk jugs, canned goods, and assorted everyday objects can help you stay in shape. Save your money and keep fit all at once - here's how.

Steps

1. Make a cheap kettlebell using a milk or juice jug. Fill a clean, plastic gallon jug or 2 liter bottle (the kind with a handle) with water. Now it is ready for use it as a kettlebell or an arm weight.
   
2. Use canned goods that fit in your hands as simple hand weights. Use large canned goods as heavier weights or kettle balls.
   
3. Fill a clean sock with pebbles or dry beans. Sew or glue the open end closed. Then sew the ends together (or attach with Velcro) and use as a wrist weight.
   
4. Use packets of rice or beans for mini-weights. No need to do anything else than use them for bicep curls and other small weight-lifting moves.
   
5. If you're really looking to get a workout, try filling a 5-gallon bucket with anything that suits you, from sand to rocks or even water. Use it to do curls or attatch two of them to a bar or board and use as a bench press.
   

Tips

• Alternate the muscle groups you work. For example, focus on arms one day and legs the next.
  
• Consult with friends and family whom you know to regularly have a workout routine so as to get advice.
  
• Do workouts with friends and family to make it enjoyable, or in a setting where you feel comfortable, and nothing around you is fragile.
  
• Think of your exercise time as a practice session and not as a workout, so as to be relaxed and happy to start again everyday.
  
• Stop if it hurts.
  

Warnings

• Always consult with a doctor or qualified health professional before beginning an exercise program.
  
• Be careful with your homemade kettlebell; if your wrist hurts after (or during) your workout, stop using it and buy a kettlebell.
  

Things You'll Need

• Empty milk or juice jugs
  
• Canned goods of various sizes
  
• A scale to weigh items (or guess roughly by balancing in each hand)
  
• Old clean socks without holes
  
• 5-gallon buckets(usually from dishwasher detergents)
  
• Beans or pebbles
  
• Packets of rice or beans
  

Related wikiHows

• How to Warm up for Weight Lifting Exercises
  
• How to Get Fit
  
• How to Get Wider Shoulders
  
• How to Get Better Biceps
  

Sources and Citations

• Kettlebell example on Wikipedia
  

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