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Anonymous
alright /fit/, here's a question:

i'll be staying in a very desolate, wooded area in new england for most of the summer. i've been actively lifting weights since last september, and i really want to continue working out. the problem is that there is absolutely no equipment where i'll be staying.

i'm well aware of bodyweight exercises, but those will only get you so far; i want to keep lifting.

so, can you guys name some common household items that can be used as substitutes for free weights? i'm not expecting a miracle here but i figured it was worth asking about.

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>> Anonymous
get a baby ox
>> Anonymous
>> wooded area

chop yourself some weights
>> Anonymous
cut down a tree and bench it.
>> Anonymous
Sand + Bag

They sell at Home Depot or Lowes.
>> Anonymous
really?
one armed elevated pushups will destroy you.
one legged squats will destroy you.
>> Anonymous
>>163138
>>163139
OP here. i feel like an idiot; how the fuck did i not think of that?

thanks anon.
>> Anonymous
>>163143
agreed.
yeah, i gotta call bullshit based upon your very recent foray into weightlifting, that "you can only go so far" using gravity. you have nowhere near the muscle maturity to not benefit from modified gravity based exercise. Put a heavy backpack on your back, put your feet up on the kitchen table and tell me how many pushups you can knock out. set a bar across a threshhold or two beams, put a heavy backpack on, and tell me how many forehand chins you can do. I seriously doubt that you are beyond what this type of training can do for you.
>> Anonymous
Go wrestle some bears
>> Anonymous
Do a handstand against a wall and do pushups from that position to work your shoulders.
>> Anonymous
>>163177
Not OP, but I really don't see what's so hard about push-ups, elevated for that matter, added with weights. I can do like 25 elevated push-ups in a row with a 15-20 lb backpack on, so obviously it's not working.
>> Anonymous
SAND BAGS WOOT!
>> Anonymous
>>163222

Try doing pushups with your whole body in the air, arms on some elevated supports.

http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode3/229/
http://www.beastskills.com/tutorials.htm
>> Anonymous
theres a whole article on i think t-nation about some russian lifter who does a whole routine with a log, squats, bench, push presses etc.
>> Anonymous
>>163222
yeah, you are not the OP. the OP stated that he started working out 8 months ago. I doubt if he could do so many near inverted and weighted pushups that it would not be of any benefit.

By using weights and inversion, a 175lb guy can be essentially doing a 200lb+ pressing movement. And how many times can most beginning trainers press 200lb? ten times? twenty?

How many weighted chins can anyone do? If you can pulldown a max of say, 250, that would be nearly the same as that 175lb guy doing a 50lb weighted chin. no machine necessary.

>>163651
the beastskills site is especially good. bookmarked.
>> Anonymous
>>163823225, that would be nearly the same as that 175lb guy doing a 50lb weighted chin. no machine necessary. <<<fixed, but good point anyway.
>> I skank to post rock
>>163133
just read Walden, it has all the answers