{"id":564,"date":"2013-04-10T12:37:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T00:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2013-04-10T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T00:37:34","slug":"a-home-made-functional-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/a-home-made-functional-gym.php","title":{"rendered":"A Home made functional gym"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have trained with conventional weights – barbells, dumbbells & machines at a gym for over 27 years. A year or so back I got into kettlebells & have trained mostly with those in the past 12 months. I have also done extensive weighted vest training in the past couple of years.<\/p>\n

Recently I have been looking at diversifying my functional strength training. What I deeply miss from the conventional weights are the 3 basic lifts, squat, deadlift & bench having gotten my bench up to 400 lbs without a gym with barbells or a press machine how can you duplicate this?<\/p>\n

Well this has led me to a few ideas for gear I will be setting up here at home with minimal costs.<\/p>\n

First up is Sandbags…<\/p>\n

Lets look at the “bulgarian bag” first. To buy a quality leather bag from suples will set you back a few hundred. If you are overseas like me it could cost you up to $1000 – clearly out of the question.<\/p>\n

here is the site http:\/\/www.suples.com\/<\/p>\n

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As you can see these are very well crafted and attractive but also extremely expensive.<\/p>\n

Well the very simple solution is to make one from a car inner tube.<\/p>\n

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