"Dynamic" weights
Hello everyone, boys and girls! This is the first thread I’ve started and my first post as a hanger, so please bare with me.
I received my Bib Hanger yesterday (The content of the package was labeled as “Exercise equipment”, which was a nice touch, in my opinion. :D ) and ofcourse, after 10 days of shaking, I was in a great rush to get my hanging started.
Anyhow, I suddendly realised, that I had given my weight set away a couple days ago.
So what to use for weight? I needed something that with what I would know accurately enough what the load is, it would have to be something that with what I could add the load with 0.5 kg (1.1 pounds) steps. Hmm… :confused:
I’ve been weight training for years and I started to refresh my memory of all the alternative ways to get some weight to train with. I remembered this one guy who used buckets filled with water for bicep curls. That's it. 1 litre of water weights 1 kg, everyone knows that. Therefore 0.5 litres weights 0.5 kgs, the weight I was looking for.
Now I had the weight, all I needed was a vessel. If I would’ve just attached a bucket filled with water to my hanger, it goes without saying, it would’ve gotten messy…or wet. I looked around my kitchen and noticed the huge pile of 0.5 litre soda bottles on the kitchen table, the ones I was going to get recycled. There we go.
I put on the hanger, attached the bucket to the “S”-hook and started to load the soda bottles, filled with water; “0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, oops, one too many, 2.0. Yeah, that will do good.”.
This is when I realised, that one of the benefits of this setting is that you can alter the weight while “on set”! Load until your limit and if you feel that you have too much weight, take some off! You don’t need to let that ruin your set! If you don’t have a truck load of empty bottles, like I do, use something else. You could use bags of sand, that you have weighted or weight plates. Pretty much anything goes. The point is, that with the bucket (or any kind of weight rack) you can easily alter the weight, adding efficiency and safety.
Whew! My keyboard is over-heating! I guess I’m a man of many words… ;)
Now, my dear, beloved PE brothers and sisters, I expect that someone had the bother and courage to read this through, I want replies. :)
What do you think? Any ideas for improvements? Do you have your own “weight rack” (in lack of better words); what’s it like? Give me anything. How did I do? *trembling* :D
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