Achieving Greatness (on a Budget) II

I got inspired to write this after I saw an ad for Rogue Fitness in my Facebook feed yesterday.

For those that don't get pestered with their ads, Rogue Fitness is known for selling some really goofy fitness equipment, for unreasonably high prices. Rogue Fitness is like Rule 34, except instead of porn, it's exercise equipment. If it could ever be built or conceived of, they have it.

So it was an ad for this weird piece of equipment that inspired this post.

It's a glorified dumbbell, modified to hold a weight in place on one side, so you can do mace training. All yours for $189.99, plus tax and shipping.

I remembered a video I saw from Buff Dudes that showed how to make an exercise club for way cheaper.

For anyone who took my advice from Achieving Greatness (on a Budget), you learned you could do HIIT training from home, for the price of whatever you're currently paying to broadcast YouTube into your house. So if you decided to do that, you're probably enjoying the benefits, but also want something new. This will show you how to get a couple of pieces of new exercise equipment on the cheap to up your game.

There is one downside to this post, and it's that most of America is currently experience Hoth-like weather conditions. This equipment is meant for the outside, so you might have to wait a few months before you can get some use out of this. You might have to come back to this post after the country has thawed.

The first piece of exercise equipment is the above-mentioned exercise club. This is real easy to make, and relatively inexpensive. Giving credit where it's due, here's Buff Dudes' instructional video on how to make it:

DIY Duke says in the video that they went with 18" long pipes, but if you're short in height or want to save money, you can go with 12" pipes. Since I'm a tall man, I went looking for 18" pipes online and found a website called Gamut.com that can sell them in that length without having to do a specialty cut. With tax and shipping, getting the base parts for the club (one 2" thick pipe, one 1" thick pipe, one reducer, and two caps) runs about $60. I'm definitely ordering this when I get paid. In the future, I'll buy more pipes to add weight to the club. If the cost of the base parts is too much for you altogether, you can buy them separately over time.

The second piece of equipment is free if you can find the right people. A gigantic tire.

Now, you don't need a giant tire to do mace training. You can just go outside, swing that bad boy around (there's a bunch of instructional videos on YouTube that'll show you how to do it properly), and build a whole lot of strength. But can you think of any exercise more fun than slamming a giant metal club into a giant tire? I truly can't.

YEEEAAAAAHHHHH!

This link shows how you can get a tire for free, or close to free. Giant tires weigh hundreds of pounds, so you will probably need one or two strong friends to help you carry it.

If you check that page, it shows a link where you can learn how to make other DIY equipment. Give it a look if you're interested in making your own gym equipment on the cheap.

You can also do more than just slam a club on a giant tire. Tire flips are a lot of fun.

Along with being low in price, these exercises are also fun as fuck, and that's important when you have kids. My daughters are getting older, and before long I plan on getting a small tire for them and a pipe to use as a club.

I'm planning on incorporating the club and tire into my workouts after I reach the thousand pound club.

Anyway, that's a couple ideas for cheap workout equipment. Enjoy!