ITT we post the ghettoest....

[yochilllllllll]

....equipment / contraptions used to lift before we got our home gyms/gym memberships.

Before i got my membership all i had was a 15lb barbell and 85lbs worth of weights. No bench, obviously you cant bench flat on the floor so i took about 30 books, lined them up in rows, scotch taped them together (didnt even have duct tape) and laid on that for a bench.

I'm sure people have better than this but im bored and i just saw some of the taped up books now piled up in my closet so....anyone got anything good ?

[MasterpieceMesias]

....equipment / contraptions used to lift before we got our home gyms/gym memberships.

Before i got my membership all i had was a 15lb barbell and 85lbs worth of weights. No bench, obviously you cant bench flat on the floor so i took about 30 books, lined them up in rows, scotch taped them together (didnt even have duct tape) and laid on that for a bench.

I'm sure people have better than this but im bored and i just saw some of the taped up books now piled up in my closet so....anyone got anything good ?

that's pretty cool and creative (srs, no sarcasm)

[BenSL8]

live in the suburbs but on vacation or when **** wasnt availible great ideas-

pullups on swing set, tricep pulldowns/bicep curls with a friend using a towel or wrapped up wifebeater work pretty well.

good thread idea

[Number_S3ven]

i had a 5 lb. bar, 95 lbs. of plates and a bunch of 5-10 lb. db's. for heavier lifts i would take wal-mart bags and fill them with db's and tie them to the end of the bar. eventually bent the bar lol.

[Jwilliams2]

Suit case filled with random stuff and did upright rows

[Wegzyzz]

tied rocks with rope and used branches to make a pulley

lifted rocks for deadlifts

put cars in neutral and pulled up a hill

carry someone regardless if willing or not and do lunges up a flight of stairs

push ups at the bus stop

find any horizontal bar and do pull/chin ups

none of which I would do, maybe except the last one and the pulling cars thing sounds fun.

[eelsemaj]

pvc pipe with bottles filled with water (each bottle weighed 10lbs) and used it as a barbell.

[MasterpieceMesias]

piano seat as a bench and some cinderblocks attached to a pulley system when I turned 12. felt bad

[Uberwaffle]

....equipment / contraptions used to lift before we got our home gyms/gym memberships.

Before i got my membership all i had was a 15lb barbell and 85lbs worth of weights. No bench, obviously you cant bench flat on the floor so i took about 30 books, lined them up in rows, scotch taped them together (didnt even have duct tape) and laid on that for a bench.

I'm sure people have better than this but im bored and i just saw some of the taped up books now piled up in my closet so....anyone got anything good ?

pretty sure that owning 30 books isn't considered "ghetto"...

oh, and i curl/upright row/shoulder raise bags of food every so often

[laxxxer]

[yochilllllllll]

pretty sure that owning 30 books isn't considered "ghetto"...

oh, and i curl/upright row/shoulder raise bags of food every so often

acquired them over the years....was just a bunch of small books taped together

[CDeniz]

Edge of the couch as bench. Chairs for dips. Edge of couch for preacher curls. Water jugs for weights.

[kickchickbecca]

I definitely curl my groceries..

[Number_S3ven]

remembered another one, i've only done this one twice though. don't have weights at my dad's house, so in the backyard (a lot of land) i took a tractor tire out of a shed, weighed about 200 lbs. did some weird squat/dead/mili press thing with it, found axles to use for rows and squats, pull ups on trees.

[BredFromFire]

when i was 12 i distincly remember for about a month i would curl shampoo bottles because they were the perfect size, though overtime by using the shampoo the bottle got lighter and i was convinced it was me getting stronger.


that's ghetto rite?

[Super Naut]

used backs of chairs for dips. used a ladder and a work bench for a squat rack.

[yochilllllllll]

when i was 12 i distincly remember for about a month i would curl shampoo bottles because they were the perfect size, though overtime by using the shampoo the bottle got lighter and i was convinced it was me getting stronger.


that's ghetto rite?

good enough for me...

[Mefreh]

Haha let's see.
I would stack my pillows on my bed and lay on them for a bench, how did I not get hurt doing that......
Weight in a backpack for squats, added plastic bags with stuff in them to the bar on deads
tree's for chinups, that's about it.
Edit:Oh right, and I used the kitchen counter for dips.

[AndrewK1]

Someone repost this

Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDCxH88-9X8

[tjsage]

I curl my cat

[Expendable]

+



for dips. (by doing it in between them if you aint figured it out)

i still do.