Build Your Own Fitness Equipment (CHEAP!): Weighted Sled

For $207 you could buy this at Amazon….

 

…Or for under $7 (less if you already own a roll of duct tape) you could build this

Learn how here.

New Toy: U.S.A.

Just got my Universal Strength Apparatus (USA) suspension trainer in the mail.  I am like a kid at Christmas, I can’t wait to try this out!  I think I will visit the park with Sasha this weekend early in the morning and put some serious starting miles on this thing.  I am already thinking of places on the playground to hook it up.

If all goes well I plan on incorporating one day a week (of every two weeks) of body weight exercises into my fitness rotation.  Some serious high rep, body weight, outdoor training.

This is going to be wicked awesome!

A New Fitness Toy Made of PVC Pipe…

Allow me to introduce you to my little big friend.  This is my new workout toy (and the first of several I plan on making in different shapes and sizes).  I will call it a hydro-bar.  The design is simple: PVC pipe + water = hydro bar.  Allow me to guide you through the process…

The process is simpe enough…

Building my Newest Workout Toy…

I found this wonderful little toy over at Amazon.com, it is a Powermax sprint sled:

Looks fun, doesn’t it?  That is exactly what I thought.  But the price tag made my jaw drop- $249.95.

So my first thought, aside from selling plasma in order to get my hands on this toy, was how could I build this myself.  I have a pretty good idea.

The recipe:

1 sled from the local consignment shop= estimated cost $12

Coming Tomorrow….

You might be Surprised to Know that….

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Used and Abused: Introducing My New Workout Equipment

Throwing a Change-Up: Reshuffling the Fitness Routine MMA style…

I don’t know if I am the only one, but I absolutely-totally-understandably HATE when I hear the following words.

I love you, I’m just not in love with you.

Those words make my blood boil.  But I have to admit, when it comes to my workouts- that about covers my current relationship with exercise.  I love the idea of working out and I love the memory of past workouts, but when it comes to present workouts there is little joy top be had.  And I don’t mean to imply any sense of ease when I use the word joy.  some of my best workouts have been stomach curdling and involved severe nausea and lactic acid burning in my muscles that rivaled a four alarm fire for intensity.  And as a former fireman whose been face-to-face with extreme heat and crackling flames I can speak from experience.  My lack of passion led to a bit of mild depression about the future of my workouts- which as of late have been little more than a roughly choreographed bore fests.

That was until I happened across the Men’s Fitness Magazine website as I was doing research for another post (set to drop later this week).  On the front page there was a link to an article on an MMA fighter’s workout.  A few clicks later I was enthralled by this fast paced, intense, hard pounding exercise routine.

Ever tried anything like this?