Since I am living in Indonesia, I have all of a sudden become a great fan of making things the DIY-way, or Do It Yourself. Living on a somewhat tight wallet, well, actually that’s not really true but one must keep an anticipating eye on the future, I like to search the web and fabricate stuff myself. And I am surprised what stuff you can make by yourself, saving a lot of money on the way. One nice item I had never even thought of before, is parallettes.

Yes, I am in a somewhat gymnastic mood as of late, but these babies do work! I looked up a schedule how to make them, bought some PVC and for less than 10 dollars you can make your own set. Your abs will get a good workout when trying going for time on the L-sit, you can use a bigger ROM for push ups, you can try planche work (if it’s not useful to you, it sure looks impressive), and working your way up to a handstand push up. The latter is something I really want to get, but here I don’t really have a suitable wall and I seem to always get kind of dizzy. But with the parallettes, it’s easy because the closer you bring your feet to your hand and the straighter you keep your upper body, your shoulders will get most of the work. Not convinced, Go make some!

Well, the rings I have already written about. Nice things, and I actually bought a pair of Xtreme rings. They were on pre-sale, and although shipping is a bitch to Indonesia, the price was still allright.. Everyday I am sore, (static tension really fatigues the muscles) and that’s about all I have to say about that.

Barbells, easy to make with some cement and a scaffold pole. Will not be pretty, but does work. Here at home I have a few small ones laying around and although too light, it does work. Don’t worry if they are offset, your body will compensate for that and did you ever in real life handle an opponent or object that was perfectly weighed down just for you to lift comfortably.. ?

Sandbags, didn’t do that yet but will do someday. We do not have a lot of space around the house, but I am set on making some. There is enough sand laying around Bali anyway.

Atlas stones ofcourse, but I never made some. I know Nick has made a few back in the day for the Wheyconsortium, so who knows he can give you some insights..

Pull ups bars, well actually that is a no brainer, ain’t it?

The next plan for me is to make some poles stuck in the ground or build some sort of platform to attach my rings to. We bought a car a few days ago, and now I can’t ring sling in the garage anymore.

So that is it for now.

 

Theo