How to make dumbbells with your hands

Not all sports facilities have enough time for gym and home workouts require certain equipment, the cost of which is quite high. The most popular are free weights. They are involved in almost all exercises. And if you buy sports gear in the near future is not planned, should not stop exercising. To make dumbbells you can with your hands from pretty cheap materials. It is enough to familiarize with instructions on how and what they do.

The contents

• Weights of plastic bottles with their hands
• Rod from plastic bottles
• Collect shells of concrete
• Metal dumbbells with your hands
• General advice and guidelines of building of dumbbells at home

Weights of plastic bottles with their hands

Regular plastic bottles can, with minimal monetary costs in the short term to do a dumbbell that can be used immediately. Most importantly, it’s good to lock the design elements so it was not destroyed during training.

To build one of the plastic shell you will need: 2 bottles, duct tape or electrical tape, filler.

Step-by-step instructions for making bells from plastic bottles:

Cut out the middle part of the bottle. Fasten divided (upper and lower) by means of adhesive insulating tape.

Fall asleep in the tank filler. If the projectile is doing low weight, make use of cement with sand. Weights with greater mass require adding metal inclusions, which can act as ball bearing, nails, various metal. The choice depends entirely on the availability of a material.

When filled the bottle from the bottle, insert the tube or stick made of metal or wood. Wrap the joints with electrical tape or duct tape. Thanks to this manipulation, you get a non-slip, soft and quite comfortable to grip.

Before the start of classes you should carefully check all the connections to the filler are not “leaked”.

Rod from plastic bottles

Conventional bottles made of plastic are suitable not only for the collection of dumbbells, but barbells. The projectile weighs much more, so the amount of source material increases.

To build the rod you will need: at least 8 plastic bottles, the neck, the material for the filler, electrical tape or duct tape.

Instructions for making rods of plastic material:

Bottles fill the same way as a dumbbell.

Choose the material for the fretboard. It is better to take rebar or pipe, which lie comfortably in the hand.

At each end of the fretboard to place the finished goods from filled plastic bottles and wrapped with duct tape. On each side it turns out four of the cargo.

Check the quality of attachment. The neck should not move, or set backlash. If the connection is weak, wound more duct tape.

To increase weight allows the rod laying between loads of bottles of extra weights in the form of bars and so on.

Each additional shipping be sure to wrap the new layer of duct tape. To increase the load up to 100 kg.

To navigate the choice of material is quite difficult. The approximate weight of a dumbbell or barbell can be calculated based on the data presented:

The weight of two-liter plastic bottles with various fillings:

• water — 1,997;
• compacted sand — 3,360;
• wet sand — 3,840;
• gravel (pisanica) — 2,600;
• lead — 22,800.

The mass is given in kilograms.

Collect shells of concrete

The cement Foundation allows you to more heavy dumbbells and barbells, rather than using plastic bottles. Pancakes are not only more impressive weight, but look much more impressive. They are cast from cement mortar in a special form, which is located inside the neck. The disadvantage of this design is that the load of the projectile cannot be adjusted or made to fit someone else.

To start working with a different weight, you will need to make a new barbell or dumbbells. The weights, in fact, turn out an individual, but still quite brittle and “friable”. The last disadvantage can be eliminated by introduction into the solution of PVA glue. And if classes are not held on the principle of powerlifting, when a shell thrown on the floor, then it will last quite a long time.

For the manufacture of concrete weights (weights) you will need: a metal pipe with required length, bolts or screws, cement mortar, PVA, and form for otlivanija of cargo.

Step-by-step instructions for making cement shells:

The ends of the pipe by using a drill make holes in the four sides. Done the holes, screw the screws, so they are as securely fixed at the ends and formed a peculiar shape of the cross. They become the frame that holds the cement.

Form to make pancakes from a flat bucket from-under mayonnaise or paint. You can use another container. Importantly, the weight was matched so that you need to practice and suited to the physique involved. In the mortar for hardness add glue or injected oil paint.

Filled the mixture was placed in the tube and wait about four days until it fully sets. Repeat described in the preceding paragraphs of manipulation to the other party. Made support. Design tie or hang for another four days.

When the cement solidifies completely, the next week shell soaked at least two times in water, that he gained even greater strength.

The shells poured into two-litre form, can weigh about 5 lbs. Exact weight due to the composition of the involved compounds.

To perform the “walk of the farmer”, not necessarily to make bombs. Enough to take two regular cans and hung on a stick. You can use tires filled with sand or any other filler. Other exercises with a similar structure to execute difficult. They require the dedication of a full of dumbbells.

Metal dumbbells with your hands

When sports become a regular, there is a need to acquire more professional shells or to make such metal. They are virtually indistinguishable from the factory. The difference is that it will cost dumbbells, hand made, and much cheaper. From one tube you can simultaneously make and fretboard, and pancakes. Best metal to make patterned dumbbell.

To make the shells, you need to prepare in advance: thin-walled tube having a diameter slightly larger than the neck which is better to take the metal rod, the retaining locks and mild steel. Work on construction of the dumbbells should be in the metal workshop.

Step by step instructions:

From scrap metal with a diameter of about 3 cm are cut approximately 35-40 cm fretboard. For the projectile it was convenient to hold in hand, from a thin-wall tube cut off about 15 cm Received cut wear on the fretboard. Further, if desired, it can be covered with relief or wrapped with tape.

Pancakes cut out autogenous cutting of sheet steel. The weight of one disc diameter of 18 cm and thickness 1 cm is 2 kg. this makes It easy to calculate the required number of pancakes to get the mass of 10, 20, 30, 40 kg. drive Sizes also allow you quite simple to change the weight of the wheel weights from small to maximal. Cutting the whole set of pancakes allows you to continually work with different weights.

Next step make the retaining locks. The diameter of the pipe to take more than the fretboard. From the product cut off the ring with width equal to 3 cm. They should be free to move around the fretboard, but doesn’t slip. In the rings drilled one hole with a diameter of at least 1-1,20 cm They are necessary for the screwing of screws, which allows the rings to keep the pancakes, and snuggle up to the neck. Most importantly, take care of the quality of the pressing screw to avoid backlash.

At the last stage, proceed to the Assembly of a dumbbell. On the neck with a section of pipe hung in the middle of the pancakes and fixed by means of snap locks.

Manufactured in the described way dumbbells are just as good as factory, and allow you to work with small and big weight.

General advice and guidelines of building of dumbbells at home

The best without any doubt the shells are metal, but they are much harder to manufacture than other designs. Need not just to make the disks, and to choose the right width of pancakes, efficiently carry gate locks according to calculations. It is recommended not to increase the width and diameter of the disk. You can make a few hard and few small pancakes.

Dumbbells to look presentable, detail sanded and painted. It is only slightly heavier creation process and increase the cost of the shells, but they will look better than factory, and the price to be much lower. Classes with these items will bring more pleasure, and therefore motivation and the effect of exercise will increase.

Do not waste time and effort to create dumbbells weighing up to 100 lbs. Assembly Instructions of such structures on the Internet abound, but it is better to make the bar with the expectation of 200-300 kilo to perform a deadlift. The dumbbells for these loads are not suitable. And if you drag iron, it has a serious projectile, that is the post.

If so, you can purchase a stamp with a handle in the store, and pancakes or make your own or order in the Studio. The quality of the handle promotes comfortable classes, and homemade pancakes considerably reduce the total cost of the projectile.