>Tfw too poor to afford weights
>Tfw fill 2 x 4l bottle with sand
>Tfw bottle handles makes knuckles bleed
>Tfw bottles became too light
How do I make ho made weights? Please I'm very poor
>>29647792
attach a new pair bottles to old bottles? Also get one of these to grab the bottles. (the metal thing no idea what its called)
I used to work out at Home Depot
In the building materials section I'd do my squats and dead lifts
Just squat bags of concrete over and over to the cart till failure, then load them back to the display
Also the isles can be used as pull up bars
The place is big enough to jog in as well
Usually behind the store is scrap wood
I would bench 8x8s if they had them
You can get a wrist and forearm workout by using the wrenches in hardware and tightening and loosening bolts on the equipment there
I also lunged the isles with bags of concrete
I did this three times a week before I was banned from Home Depot
>>29647828
Not helpful.
Also the bottles swing too much it makes it difficult/uncomfortable to lift and I start to rage
>>29647863
>>29647863
There's no big shopping centres in my area
>>29647792
http://homemadestrength.blogspot.com/2012/04/concrete-weights.html
>>29647876
secure them better
>>29647905
The fuck must I get concrete from!
>>29647917
Op how could we help someone who is literally helpless
Make some money
>inb4 sob story
>>29647863
>being this poor
please don't be b8
>>29647792
You can buy weights on craigslist for pennies on the lb, sometimes for free if you're lucky.
>>29648137
>>29648146
I am actually really poor. No car nothing. I leave my house once every 4 months to have fun.
I just goto school other times
I ask neighbors for food often
I only get happy when lifting
>>29647792
>ho made
Saw this on tumblr I think.
Ready mix concrete.
>>29648194
This is not bait bro.
I can post my bottles
>>29648177
What the fuck? Get a job motherfucker, even a 10hr a week gig somewhere will be PLENTY to afford a gym membership. Jesus christ. Are you from the States or elsewhere?
>>29647792
Old car tyres
Bags of cement
Water
Metal street sign pole
Baby you got some afriweights goin on
I can't get a job now I'm doing my last year at high school.
My countrys economy is fucked too
I'm not an american though.
>>29647792
we're not going to make fun of you if you go to PF
>>29648228
>Cement
Cannot afford
>Water
Only thing I have
>Sign pole
Illegal
>Tire
Illegal
>>29648252
PF?
>>29648238
What country?
If you're really motivated, which it seems you are (given your mcguiver moment with the bottles, which you should definitely post), then keep improvising. A bag of concrete is inexpensive, and making a cast out of some wood for concrete blocks and drilling a hole through a pair and sticking a heavy rod through them and bam, you have your first poverty barbell that you can use to workout your biceps, triceps, shoulders, back, legs, whatever. To increase weight, get chains and wrap one on each side when the weight gets light.
Improvise! Or, a really good way to get a bicep/back workout is weighted chinups. Find a way to put weights on your body (i.e. a backpack or a belt or a dumbbell between your legs), and pound away 3xFailure chinups followed by another set or 2 of pullups. And there you have a bicep/back workout.
I am curious about the bottles, post a picture
>>29648255
where are you from
>>29648267
planet fitness? is it too late for americans on this board?
>>29647863
I cried imagining some fitizen in home depot doing lunges with concrete bags down the paint Isle murmuring autistic shit
Ok I will post em
I'm from South Africa btw
>>29648276
Gimmie a sec
>>29647828
Carabiner
>>29647828
yeah but an actual weight bearing carabiner, not those cheap as fuck knockoffs that have a breaking point somewhere around 100lb
been monitoring this thread a bit. Seems you are going about this the wrong way.
Don't try to make new weights. If you are ultra poor just do calisthenic exercises..I've done that type of shit before. For instance, are push ups not working for you? Then put some fucking rocks or any heavy shit on your back.
Do squats and lunges holding rocks. If you want to live dangerously get a really heavy rock and through it around like ti was a medicine ball.
Secure rocks to your legs and walk around.
You think you are poor? How do you think the ancient people worked out? Use what you've got brah.
>>29648276
You have walls. A handstand push-up is pretty much a press.
Put something on your back and do push-ups to bench.
Balance something on your shoulder and squat. Bonus points if there's a place for your head to go through and you can use both shoulders.
Pick something up to deadlift. Flip over furniture that's not yours.
I wouldn't stress too much about the weights. You're not going to get big without a lot of food anyway
>>29648364
that kinda looks like drug paraphernalia in South Africa. i heard there are people trying to get high off of AIDS meds. y'all fucked up by kicking the whiteys out
>>29648360
Been there, chest and triceps have got good gains, then it just stopped
>I fill my schoolbag with bricks
>I hate muh life
>>29648364
Like kettlebells, only a lot lot lot lot lot lot lot lot lot lot shittier. Shit son you have enough money for fabric and water, but not enough money for concrete.
How much is a gym membership in South Africa. Also, are you next to any major city or out in rural land?
>>29648384
Its juice bottles?
Also, I agree. I'm light skin, not white though, but have inheritance from whites
At least I have that going for me
>>29648389
Fabric strips was a gift from my aunt
I'm in urban area but I'm just poor.
Gym is R150 a month
(Go convert that to $ or whatever)
![milk[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/We2yEZm.jpg "milk[1].jpg")
>>29647863
>I also lunged the isles with bags of concrete
I want to believe this is too OG to be pasta
>>29648389
I live in the major city, Cape Town
>>29648412
yeah, i know. i was just giving you shit for not being an americlap like me. good luck, buddy. it seems like you want to make it. you will
>>29648414
Thanks for this,anon
how about a bodyweight routine?
>>29647792
Buy a piece of pipe, buy some concrete, make a mold in the ground, place pipe in center, repeat.
should be less than 10 bucks
>>29648429
Thanks bruh. For giving a poorfag motivation. When I make it I will post pics.
>>29648416
$13.5, or about the price of a smaller, cheaper gym here in the states. Damn, I'd imagine its harder to afford that money in poverty in South Africa. And this
http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/en/countries/southern-africa/south-africa/
somewhat paints a bleak picture of the current economic situation there. Well shit anon, there has to be somehow you can make money. Are you still in highschool or uni?
Here's a question for ya OP. How in the fuck are you too poor for gym/weights but yet you have a computer with internet, posting on a Bulgarian tuperware convention menagerie?
>>29648426
So do you get scared that you will get hiv every time you fuck a girl? Srs question
>>29648467
High school, last year though
Gonna study EE.
Muh brain
Also, I'm scared coz I hear many dropouts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement
http://www.practicalprimitive.com/skillofthemonth/survivalcement.html
>>29648499
I'll probably find out if she has the disease first?
Am I gonna make it in future guise?
>>29648518
When in Cape Town?
>>29648518
How much $USD do you need for a gym membership short-term? I'll pay for a month or so and if you post results and commitment I'll consider paying full-time until you get a job.
>>29648518
Well you won't make it, unless you figure out a way to increase your lifting weights constantly. Also, you need a lot of food to grow. I mean, unless you have those two, it's gonna be slow and frustrating progress.
Can i ask yousomething about South Africa? Do you fear going outside in Cape Town, or is all the crime delegated to a few select areas?
>>29648543
Based but it's gonna be real depessing when he has to stop after a measly month
>>29648543
Hmm wat? People like you don't exist
>>29648541
Merrica?
>>29648543
~$25 at Virgin Active.
>>29648543
This guy. Nice guy.
>>29647792
>go to local university
>sign up for full schedule of classes
>attain student ID
>drop all classes before you have to pay for them
>keep student ID
>use student ID to get into university gym
>do this every semester
>free lifetime gym membership
>>29648557
Im also in Cape Town
>>29648562
At my uni they scanned the id card
>>29648552
Yes bro! Don't ever come here!!
When I was 12
2 niggers stole my bike while I was literally outside my house
(Wasn't that poor then)
This is real.
Btw all those stories you here bout SA? They're all true
>>29648562
holy fuck I'm going to do this.
>>29648576
God bless your country
>>29648573
That's why you do it every semester. It's a university with a fuckload of students and they don't have the time to erase every student that drops classes. Trust me, it works. Mine scans if I renew it every semester.
>>29648543
How am I gonna get money from you anyhow?
>>29648569
Awe how do you hate your life?
>>29648414
bodyweightfag here doing most of these. I'm still relatively small but i've made some snazzy gains and my overall fitness & strength have increased a lot. I also use a KB I got for like $15.
burpees are another fun as fuck staple IMO.
>>29648618
Bodyweight doesn't last long, least not for me
>>29648604
You've got a fucking smartphone, a computer, internet, and a gay necklace. Prioritize your spending because you've got enough to buy weights or at least something you can lift with. You are white a superior to those around you, fucking act like it.
>>29648651
Let me clarify
>Smartphone cost R200 from my friend
>Blackberry 9300
>Necklace is my key attached to phone
>Internet is R30 bis(I scavenge for money)
>Computer is old as fuck(when I wasrnt so poor)
Now I feel bad again
What's wrong with 2x 20L buckets filled with sand and the buckets hanging from a Broom handle (or two)? Add some tape if you want it nice and secure
>>29648675
I need to get buckets though
And there's an open field nearby to get more sand
>>29648674
>"(when I wasrnt so poor)"
You've been unpoor before. Get unpoor again.
That is the South African dream, now live it.
>>29648699
Parents lost jobs after apartheid, been downhill from there.
What do when government?
>>29648674
Also, scavenge for more money. I'm just not buying into your bullshit about being so lowdown poor. You can buy all of the necessities so sacrifice a little bit, figure out how to solve this exercise problem, and stop blaming it on your lack of resources.
Jesus fuck, I'm feeling a smidge of rage now.
Africa has every resource on Earth. Everything from oil to diamonds to trees to wildlife, and an endless supply of niggers to enslave to harvest them. BUT, oh no, you are just so poor. You have nothing around you at all. Fucking heavy rocks and pieces of wood everywhere and nothing to lift.
Act like an intelligent human being and use the resources around you.
Probably a million people mentioned it already but
>buy a shit load of cement, shit isn't expensive 20-40kgs will do
>buy reinforcement bars, yes the ones they use to build shit, you can buy it all at the same place.
>fill buckets with cement and water, put the bar in the middle, let it dry then repeat.
Bom, your own gym.
get decent buckets, big ones, so you can fill em up later when you start to get bigger.
That's how we get /fit/ in the third world
>>29648692
Maybe you can go full Scottish and just toss trees and rocks?
Seriously though.. if you are THAT poor that you cannot even get a couple if buckets then calisthenics is your thing.. progress to one arm pushups, crank out a fuck tonne of handstand pushups, do assisted pistol squats (eventually unassisted) etc etc until you can get a gym membership.
>>29647792
do some fucking job and pay for this shit
find a job
do it
it doesnt have to pay much and you only have to keep doing it until you can pay for it
it can be part time
>>29648735
You don't know my life at all, very judgmental.
Are you even African?
This is all money I has R13.90
>>29648796
Alright. You've convinced me. My recommendation is to give up. You don't have money, you don't know how to make money, you're not willing to figure out how to solve your problems other than asking /fit/ how to solve them - and you continually shoot them down. So, give up.
I'm actually considering the cement thing. Its R100 a bag.
A few months then I will buy it
>>29648796
Don't give us that shit. As a nigger you automatically get preference when you apply for a job. Also, doesn't every business HAVE to have a minimum percentage of black employees now? I have south Africans in my family bro. It isn't as shitty as you are making it out to be.. you need to get a job sooner or later.. either be patient or get some work
>>29648796
13.90 is ~10% from a gym membership. If you're being clothed, have shelter, and food from your parents, then baby you're 3/4th of the way there.
I guess you can always pull a doozy and steal a bike from 2 niggers and pawn it somewhere
hey, op. have you thought of going into the military? that might solve your problems
>>29648812
Uhhh you said gym membership is R150. Fuck buying cement, save up for a gym
>>29648835
He doesn't need a new bag of cement every month bru....
>>29648847
Yes, but ARGUABLY a gym membership is much better than a single fucking cement barbell, and worth the sacrifice in scavenging for an extra hour or two to earn the money to renew his membership.
And then when he outgrows his cement barbell, then what? He has to buy more cement, chains, etc. Its not so simple in that he buys the supplies for a single fucking barbell and he's set for 6 months. No, he's going to outgrow that bitch in 2 weeks and then he's scavenging for more money to earn R100 for another bag of concrete.
Jesus chinstrap
>>29648847
Yes obviously
>>29648817
Pity I'm not a nigger
>>29647863
>>29648861
I thought of this too
Won't higher reps substitute for that?
>>29648817
I generally am racist against when I hire. I just ask all the standard questions.
Will you steal to feed your family
Been to prison
been arrested
credit score
lots of security cameras and a well lit parking lot. Not one has gotten through the job application.
>>29648861
no you do exercises that the leverage increases the weight-force
>>29648879
Not necessarily. If you want strength gains, you're going to want to stay at a rep range of 1-5 maybe 1-6, and with a single weight barbell you're going to push past it in 2 weeks, and if you do do your higher reps to compensate, its going to be another week or two and that barbell is now babby weight.
What should be cheaper in the long run, is buying your own weights and bars that can be interchangeable. Or somehow save up ~R500 (you've already got 3% of that) and have a 3 month period of gym membership where you dont have to worry so much about money
>Will you steal to feed your family
Wtf
>>29648894
There's only so much of this dicking around you can do with a 50-100lb cement barbell. And then he''s stuck with no squat rack, no bench pad, no rack of dumbbels from 2.5 to 200, and no qt3.14 to look at and mentally masturbate to after he's back from the gym.
The gym is the best way, I dont even know why /fit/ is arguing this
>>29648895
Fuck it
I'll probably pick up a tutoring job at uni next year. Hopefully this will be my way out
>>29648907
I don't even think of qt 3.14 coz I'm so poor.
Like what can I even do lmfu
>>29648913
Jesus ive read that poverty is severely mentally draining, and you're just making me feel bad as shit. Youll make it bro, you seem dedicated enough (i mean you stayed through a thread of autists and retards judging you and your country and your lack of money). You just need that first step up the ladder with a simple job, and you'll find that the grass is definitely greener on the other side.
Save up for a gym membership, and in the meantime start doing weighted calisthenitcs, weighted dips, weighted pushups, everything weighted, and constantly increase that weight.
Deadlift your mom, for instance
>>29648385
sounds like you are just finishing with noob gains. Most people see noticeable gains from like month 3 to 4 and then it becomes harder and harder to make noticeable gains. No matter what kind of lifting equipment you have. Are you Zeph?
>>29648927
She actually weighs 95kg. Thyroid and what not.
2heavy4me.
But yeah, thanks man. I will make it :)
>>29648937
you have your health at least, right op?
that's what is most important in life.
>>29648929
Zeph?
>>29648942
Kek sure do.
Hope I don't fuck someone with aids
If someone could screencap everything ITT and post it in one image please? Because when I make it, I wanna post reference
>>29648937
I don't give a fuck bout what you bitching bout.
You are on your own computer, browsing the fucking internet, posting pictures from your smartphone, and talking about your overweight mom.
You have the fucking resources and instead of using them you are on here pissing and moaning like a bitch.
Like I said earlier, give up. Do us all a favor and give up so all of us extremely wealthy people that don't work for our money or make use of the things around us won't have to be interrupted by your faggot ass whining.
>>29648971
Too late to give up bro, sorry to disappoint.
>>29648971
>>29648982
BTFO
>>29648943
zef?
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I?ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the USAPL, and I?ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Cross-fit, and I have over 300 confirmed curls. I am trained in benchpress warfare and I?m the best in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another neckbeard. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which have never been seen before in Planet Fitness, mark my fuckin words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of curlbros across the US and your location is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You?re fucking weak, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can lift you in over 700 ways, and that?s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the IFBB and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little ?clever? comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn?t, you didn?t, and now you?re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You?re fuckin DYEL, skeleton.
>>29648971
Now listen here faggot
OP is poor and atleast he is asking for help because he wants to get ripped despite struggling
You on the other hand are a spoil ugly neckbeard faggot that has money, goes to the gym once a month and thinks he's the next fucking zyzz
Go fuck yourself
>>29648971
And if you want to be edgy fuck off back to /b where those fat neckbeards will show empathy to your obese ass
>>29648870
Didn't you say you were a nigger with some white ancestors?
>>29648861
Somethings better than nothing. And so far op will be doing nothing unless one of us buys him a years membership and that will definitely not be me
>>29649023
You fucking faggot enabler.
At what point is he going to say, "Oh. You're right. I should find a way to earn more money so I kind find a way out of my current predicament."
He's another fucking bitch that's on /fit/ to bitch. He shuts down every solution with, "Oh poor me I'm so poor and nobody on /fit/ knows what it's like to be poor booh fuckin hooh hooh."
OP is full of excuses and he should put them into a bucket a squat them.
Fuck this guy.
>>29648890
My sisters father inlaw has sold everything in sa and moved to straya because he basically has to act as a welfare agency and hire worthless nigger employees
>>29647828
>be alive
>not know what a carabiner is
HOW
>>29649039
My skin isn't black for free jobs
Here's wut I'm gonna do
Go to uni
Becum tutor
Earn money
Gym
That's my plan.
Guys stop bitching coz you have and I don't
>>29647863
You sir, have won the internet!
True gentleman and a scholar.
>>29649040
The only person bitching here is you, and why the fuck are you so butthurt. You won't know how it feels to be poor clearly your bragging about going to gym. So don't judge OP unless you're as poor as him
>>29649057
Wait, just fucking wait.
Are you saying that your plan is to get a job so you can earn money?
After all of the bullshit in this thread, that's your solution?
Oh my god. I was born with millions of dollars in my diaper and have never had to work for anything I have, but you are going to do something that's never been done before and actually work for what you have?
You are brave OP. You are brave indeed.
>>29649070
Because everyone is acting like he's living in fucking Antarctica.
I've been to South Africa and it isn't Mars.
There's gyms and stores and jobs and shit everywhere to lift with. And he's WHITE, which really does make a huge difference there. He's just another lazy faggot that's justifying his limits instead of looking at what he could gain if he actually applied himself to solving his problems.
>Implying jobs are available in muh country
>Implying you're a fagget
>>29649105
>Been to SA
>Stay at 5 star hotel
>Stay for short period of time
>I'm the president now and I know everything in SA
>>29649109
>>29649131
Like I said earlier. Give up. Your life is so much more horrible than anyone else that has ever lived.
Close your laptop, recharge your smartphone, tuck your overweight mom into bed and kiss her goodnight, and give up. You poor soul that knows pain that none of us ever have or ever will suffer.
Just give up.
>>29649152
Stoo being butthurt
I'm gonna make it whether you like it or not.
Now go be a typical merrican somewhere else
>>29648618
>burpees
>fun
pick one
>>29649172
>"I'm gonna make it whether you like it or not"
Problem Solved.
>>29649131
OH MY GOODNESS!!!! Listen you nigger, I actually have south africans in my family.. got it? I know how shit the country is... It's horrible! But it certainly isn't a barren waste land... you need to be innovative if you think you are too good for calisthenics.
You are definitely confirmed for being a nigger.
>I have South African friends
Bra just go away
>>29649252
see
>>29649183
That is how we all make it bro.
>>29649252
Hey man, I'm not the one making excuses here
Oh boo-fucking-hoo!!!! I'm a south african so I am doomed to never gonna make it!!!!
With that attitude, you have already failed.. just give up.. maybe one of your nigger witch doctors can do a voodoo dance for you and make you swole.. hey, it's got more of a chance of working than sitting around on your black ass all day thinking up excuses as to why you wo the make it
>>29649131
As the president of south africa I would hope that i know everything about is.
>>29649291
Good job bro
>>29647792
cement and steel pipes, use buckets
>>29649311
I hope you realise what a dumb cunt you are being... you claim to have European ancestors. FUCKING ACT LIKE IT!!!.
Your ancestors conquered Africa.. you can't even figure out how to get a decent work out
>>29649333
All that rage
I have a feeling you're 13.
Stop being butthurt
>>29649341
M8.... I'm not the one stuck in Africa complaining about being poor...
You haven't "won" anything here bru.. A.N.Y.T.H.I.N.G...
You seem to be enjoying complaining. Go workout?
I'm doing those bodyweights
/thread
>>29648364
hey nigger fill it with wet sand, just pour water until its full
>>29647863
Someone draw the guy doing lunges with bags of concrete
>>29649105
Yeah buddy, being white DOES make a big fucking difference.
Only problem is, if you end up on the poor side, your white ass is staying there!
>>29649172
Mpumalanga here. about 120Km from jozi.
Hou net so aan man, baie van ons sukkel met geldsake, en die lewe kan 'n mens hard laat afkak maar jy moet sterk bly.
Hoe harder dit word, hoe sterker kom jy uit ann die ander kant.
Ek het ook kakarm grootgeword, skool gelos, in die tronk beland.
Nous ek onder huis-arres, ek het die rook en drank gelos, en werk op my liggaam.
Maak 'n plan, hoe moeliker dit is, hoe harder baklei jy terug. Dit is al manier om die geharde bliksem te word wat jy kan word.
>were all gonna make it, brah.
>>29649424
http://www.capetownmagazine.com/gyms
there is a planet fitness that costs R199 ~$20 USD
>>29649373
this.
also, african thread, i dont see many of those around.
>>29649453
Dankie. Die mense werk op my gat joh!
Huur duurr 'Merrica
>>29649475
Why would you even want one? It's bad enough we have all those nordic worshipping /pol/ threads where everyone is like
>durrrr ur nt wite!!!!!!
>>29647792
here you go, check out ross' stuff. He's a king.
http://www.rosstraining.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9&sid=a6adce91e32781f5a9c52b4b3873453b
man this thread was entertaining. Thanks OP, your the best, if you lived in melbourne I'd let you use my weights.
>>29649482
Ek weet, maar 'n mens moet 'n dik vel het hier rond.
dis nie soos oorsee hier rond nie, maar ek glo dit kan ons net sterker maak.
ten minste hoef ons nie bekommerd te wees van "Mc'Donalds" die "die basement" nie. ons het nie daardie kak hier nie!
ek dink die liggamsgewig-oefininge sal beste uitwerk.
ek gaan ook probeer om dit te doen, ek ken nie een ou wat 'n one-handed pullup kan doen nie.
ook, goeie onderwerp vir die thread, ons armgatte het al die inligting nodig wat ons kan kry.
>>29649566
How many /fit/izens live in melbourne? Goodness me... I'd better start behaving myself incase I bump into one of you guys
>>29649566
Hey I live in Melbourne, Can I use your weights senpai?
>>29649576
:D
>>29649580
melbs a big place, im SE, you?
>>29649152
Jist fuck off god dammit. People ĺike you are so frustrating? Did you atleast read the thread? Op wasn't begging for moneyor anything he was only looking for advices. And even then you're too stupid to realise that getting a job may be his plan but he's still in high school so hehas to wait before having the possibility to get this job at uni. And gof fucking fuck yourself for encouraging him to give up. You Should feel like a bag of shit. When someone tries to make changes you go there and try to make him give up. I bet you're the dude that goes to the gym to laugh at fat people trying to change.
Seriously consider killing yourself and all your family because of the shit stain they created.
>>29649603
here here.
Thanks guys. At least some people can view things from muh perspective.
And its gonna be okay, coz we're all gonna make it brahs.
>>29649519
i said african, let me clarify what i mean.
i mean MOST threads are started and contain primarily by persons residing in america / europe.
this thread is legit in that:
>started by someone in africa
>an legitimately african topic (shit im poor, wat do?)
this is a nice little change from the usual, really entertaining.
>inb4 >implying there should be more of these threads
>>29647792
Fill bottles with mud
