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dredd1990 · 11-28-2007, 09:43 AM

i live by some woods, granted im 17, and u all might not have woods near you, but on my daily workout routine, i usually run thru the woods, and there are some older, split wood and wood blocks and heavy branches weighing anywhere from 50-130 pounds approx. i use these to workout, i put on some gloves and then usually carry the logs while running, or i simply lay flat and benchpress them. a double for this is that it callouses your hands and builds indurance depending on how you lift. there are all sorts of things around you that u can use, if your a college student and u keep a decently hefty backpack, while your sitting in class listening to a lecture, work your biceps a bit, pump that backpack yanno? or, if your just sitting around the house, take a thick book, lay on your back while watching t.v. and do single handed bench presses with it, anything that weighs 10+ will help with either endurance or burst strength. ANYTHING! if you live near a junkyard or you have old tires from your car, take the tire mounts, and hold one in each hand, and shrug your shoulder while using them, this helps the shoulder and neck muscles, you can also find a heavy iron bar or a long, slender, but heavy object, and toss in the air and catch it repeatedly, this helps work your wrists, and hand grip. if there is an old trampoline anywhere, take soem of the prings from the sides that hold the nylon onto the metal frame, find something round, like the tire mount, and hook the springs to the tire mount's edges and hook your fingers into the other sides springs, and then just close your hand, this is cheap, easy resistance training that builds MAJOR hand strength, i have used all these methods before and i know they all work. if you want to work on calf strength, hold something heavy, and jump very lightly and on your tip toes. or just move from flat footed to your tiptoes repeatedly. or, if u want to work your entire leg at once, find something u can hold yourself up with, and then do squats, with just your body weight with one leg at a time, much like a knee bend, i hold my body in a bent knee position and rest my leg on one knee, then just squat, do this many times. i often proceed until it hurts to stand.... it hurts the next day, but wow, does it work! these are my methods, i have others as well, if you have questions message me ^-^ than ks!
~Strick~

11-28-2007, 09:43 AM	#8 (permalink)
dredd1990 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 14	i live by some woods, granted im 17, and u all might not have woods near you, but on my daily workout routine, i usually run thru the woods, and there are some older, split wood and wood blocks and heavy branches weighing anywhere from 50-130 pounds approx. i use these to workout, i put on some gloves and then usually carry the logs while running, or i simply lay flat and benchpress them. a double for this is that it callouses your hands and builds indurance depending on how you lift. there are all sorts of things around you that u can use, if your a college student and u keep a decently hefty backpack, while your sitting in class listening to a lecture, work your biceps a bit, pump that backpack yanno? or, if your just sitting around the house, take a thick book, lay on your back while watching t.v. and do single handed bench presses with it, anything that weighs 10+ will help with either endurance or burst strength. ANYTHING! if you live near a junkyard or you have old tires from your car, take the tire mounts, and hold one in each hand, and shrug your shoulder while using them, this helps the shoulder and neck muscles, you can also find a heavy iron bar or a long, slender, but heavy object, and toss in the air and catch it repeatedly, this helps work your wrists, and hand grip. if there is an old trampoline anywhere, take soem of the prings from the sides that hold the nylon onto the metal frame, find something round, like the tire mount, and hook the springs to the tire mount's edges and hook your fingers into the other sides springs, and then just close your hand, this is cheap, easy resistance training that builds MAJOR hand strength, i have used all these methods before and i know they all work. if you want to work on calf strength, hold something heavy, and jump very lightly and on your tip toes. or just move from flat footed to your tiptoes repeatedly. or, if u want to work your entire leg at once, find something u can hold yourself up with, and then do squats, with just your body weight with one leg at a time, much like a knee bend, i hold my body in a bent knee position and rest my leg on one knee, then just squat, do this many times. i often proceed until it hurts to stand.... it hurts the next day, but wow, does it work! these are my methods, i have others as well, if you have questions message me ^-^ than ks! ~Strick~ __________________ To kill one man is to murder. To kill millions is to conquer. ~ Caesar. The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a thousand men is a statistic. ~ Stalin. instructor level in Red Dragon Ninjutsu, Kenjutsu, and Kobudo style martial arts. Studying Muay Thai, Breaking Techniques, and Jeet Kune Do (hard because of my body type haha) Student, in all styles and in life.