homemade equipment.

[jeffmetal]

my uncle was into body building for a while and he used to go to a rather dodgy looking gym where most of the equipement looked homemade.

he made me a funny device using about 2 foot of broom handle some thick string and an old weight. illustrated below using my uber paint skills.


to use it you had to hold it out infront of you and wind the broom handle around until the weight got to the top and then back down by reversing the direction you where turning your hands.

has anyone else got some crazy home made equipment ideas.

 

[Nobody]

Your picture isnt working.
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Anyways, I made a homemade punching bag.

I rolled up a carpet, tied it with electrical extension wire around a pilar in my basement, and punched and kicked away!

 

[jeffmetal]

hmmm working here hell the link is .

 

[LeiYunFat]

It's a pretty standard forearm/wrist apparatus, but that's not really the point. The point is it works. It's great.

 

[Garddawg]

Here is a pic of one of our homemade pieces of equipment when it wasn't quit done.

 

[thatozzieguy]

my great grandfather had made a device in his garage mind you it was pretty high like 12foot high but anyway his device consisted of a pully on the ceiling and a bit of rope running through the pully on one end of the rope was a weight and on the other end was a handle you used to pull the rope and and down with the weight on the end...it worked a treat. Mind you i was like 10 when i used to mess around with it.

 

[Sphinx]

Looks like a basic lat pull down machine.

 

[thatozzieguy]

yeah it does....if only i had somewhere that i could install such a device i would.