If you intend to increase your body strength and stamina then, practicing fitness workouts with weight set is the best option you should try here. Original weight sets that are used in professional fitness centers are highly expensive and most of the time, stay out of our reach. In such a crisis, won’t that be great if you can make your weight set at home following a few simple DIY processes? Well, we are sure that you will be delighted too with these amazing DIY weight set projects we refer in our below discussion in this regard-
How to Make a Homemade Weight Set in Different Ways:
DIY projects always offer us ample of varieties with different sorts of materials, which are quite cheap and found from our simple household products. Here we come up with some best of such DIY weight set projects made of some to repurpose objects most simply, let’s take a quick look at them-
DIY Sandbag as Weight Set
Supplies You Will Need:
- A canvas laundry bag
- A bucket full of sand
- 5/6 gallon freezer bags
- Some duffle bags
- Zip ties
- Duct tape
How to Prepare:
- First of all, pour sand into freezer bags till the top and lock them up with zip lock
- Now, place them into duffle bags to ensure they don’t break or make any mess during your exercise period
- Lock up the duffle bags too with zip ties and
- Try to fill each freezer bag with the amount of 10-15 pounds of sand, if you are using 5-6 bags for a single sandbag
- Now, place double-locked duffle bags into a canvas laundry bag and zip them up
- Your sandbag as DIY weight set is all ready to use for your fitness training
- Just try to remove or add extra freezer bags in the base of the canvas bag depending on the scale of how much weight you can handle in your fitness training.
DIY Barbell
Supplies You Will Need:
- 2 plastic gallon milk container
- 1 bamboo stick or metal pole (3-4 ft. long)
- 1 pair of socks
- Duct tape
- Rope
- 2 plastic caps
- And some plain water
How to Prepare:
- At first, rinse the empty milk container thoroughly and sundry them for a couple of hours
- Now, fill them up with water and lock the mouth with the lid tightly
- Take the bamboo stick or metal pole and tie one milk container on the bottom of that stick with a rope
- Secure the with the last knot with some duct tape and put a plastic cap on the raw end of the pole
- This will make sure that the milk container couldn’t get escaped from the raw edges of the stick or pole
- Finally, repeat this process with the remaining milk container on the left end of the bamboo stick or metal pole and finish your DIY weight set project within less than half an hour
- Use this DIY barbell and adjust the water level in the milk containers based on the weight you can handle easily in your fitness workout session.
DIY Dumbbells
Supplies You Will Need:
- 2 empty goods-can
- 1 bucket sand/ concrete
- A funnel
- And glue
How to Prepare:
- Clean empty goods’ cans with water and wipe out properly with a soft piece of cloth first
- Now, set a funnel inside the mouth and pour sand or concrete into it until the can fill till the top
- Use some glue on the lid and set tightly so then, the inside content couldn’t leak from anywhere
- Once all the steps are done well, start your muscles workout with these dumbbells following these super easy DIY weight set project.
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DIY Weight Sled
Supplies You Will Need:
- A tire
- One sandbag
- 2 lungs of chain
- 2 metal hooks
- 2 metallic ‘D’ handles
- An old laundry bag
- 100 pounds of sand
- And a weight plate
How to Prepare:
- Firstly, set two hooks on both sides of one chain and assemble 2 ‘D’ handles on the two sides of another chain
- Now, take the chain with hook, insert it a little bit around inside the tire and take the end parts out below the tire level as you can see in the video
- Connect the hooks and secure the ends by this adding process
- Now, bring the chain with D handle and insert it into the end of that previously locked chain on the hook portion
- Then, take the sandbag and insert it in the gap of the tire to make it enough weighty
- If you still want to increase the weight of your weight sled then, stake one weight plate on the top of that sandbag and start practicing instantly.
DIY Arm Weights
Supplies You Will Need:
- 2 empty plastic bottles
- Lids
- Glue
- Scotch tape
- And a funnel
How to Prepare:
- Clean and dry empty bottle first and fill them up with sands till the end using a funnel
- Once they are filled enough, set the lid with glue to secure the top entirely even during your workout session
- Now, place one bottle on the wrist side of your arm and one on the back of your wrist
- Then, scotch tape the bottles around your forearm and start practicing with this arm-weight as the super-easy DIY weight set.
DIY Kettlebell
Supplies You Will Need:
- 1 durable rubber ball
- 1 bag concrete mix
- 26 in. 3/4 ̎ PVC pipe
- 1 small bag of sand
- Duct tape
- Water
- 1 Jigsaw
- 1 heat gun
- 1 bucket
- 1 pair of scissor
- garden scraper
- and protection goggles
How to Prepare:
- First of all, heat the PVC pipe with a heat gun to bend it like a handle, and don’t forget to wear your protective goggles before this process
- Once the pipe is bent enough, put some sand into the pipe and secure both ends with duct tape
- Now, take the ball and cut a slit in the ball lengthwise to insert the pipe-made handle accordingly inside it
- After cutting the slit, make two circles on both ends of that slit and make sure you don’t make the circle bigger than the width of the PVC pipe
- Then, set the ends of that pipe-made handle through those circles and seal it properly
- Now, use that slit as the opening of that kettlebell and fill it up with concrete mix using a garden scraper
- Make a thick paste of that concrete mix adding some water to it before putting them into the ball
- Once the ball is full with that mixture, leave it to dry for 24 hours uninterruptedly
- After a certain duration, wipe out the ball clearly with a clean piece of cloth and start swinging with this wonderful DIY weight set project in the form of a kettlebell.
Also Read: 10 DIY Gym Equipment Projects to Make at Home
DIY Slosh Pipe
Supplies You Will Need:
- One 8 ft. long PVC pipe with 4 in. width
- One 4 in. PVC end cap
- One 4 in. rubber adjustable end cap
- 1 packet of PVC cement
- 1 packet PVC primer
- Screwdriver
- And 1 gallon of water
How to Prepare:
- Take the PVC pipe and apply a coat of primer to the end of the pipe along with inside the non-adjustable end cap
- Wait for a couple of minutes then, set the cap on the end and twist it anticlockwise to seal the end securely
- Once this side is sealed tightly, pour 1 gallon of water into the pipe along with a few bleach capsules
- Take the adjustable cap and seal the remaining end tightly with the help of a flathead screwdriver
- Now, this slosh pipe is all ready to use for your weight training steps whether it is back squat, Zercher lunge, front squat, or overhead carry.