I made my own dumbbell
By LK2018
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
Philippines
February 16, 2016 5:57pm CST
Hello Lotters,
I've thought about this for a while now and for the last couple of days I've watch videos on how to make a simple cement dumbbell and finally decided to try it with the first two paint cans. Unfortunately, my mistake was inserting the bar when they were not dried yet and I cemented two of them immediately and there was no gravel mix on it.
But there was still some excess cement that I've put it in 1 liter half cut soda bottle, but then I remember a metal bar somewhere so I put it with the remaining cement. Yesterday I was able to finish it and this was the result.
It wasn't good as the ones I've watch in the video, but the second one I will paint it later on. my second mistake was giving out the soda bottles when i could have another. Well, they don't have the same size, so their weights are different.
Why do this? My pedal from my stationary bike's pedal broke the other day and work out cut short as a result. I also want to try if I can sweat and loose weight this way so that I don't have to use my legs all the time. Trouble is that I haven't found any video for a good warm up before using dumbbell for exercise.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
wow! My older brother also made 2 dumb bells like the ones in your picture, and they were so heavy that I cannot lift one up. now, those dumb bells are to support an item here at home to maintain its position as upright.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
Oh, no @ridingbet I'm not going to make one that is way too heavy for me, though I thought about making a huge one from the half a gallon paint. I realized that if this was a bit heavy for me, how much more if i build the bigger one. in fact one of my wrist hurts when ever i encircle it.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
@ridingbet Im actually thinking of discontinuing the use of it if my wrist continues to hurt every after weight lifting. I don't want to make that mistake the way I did with my knee.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
@Letranknight2015 true.and then if you think you will lose weight, you might end up having a broken wrist because of the heaviness of the dumb bells.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
Well, @Scindhia I know they are never easy, that's why I made the cement in the first place. the coke dumbbell seems a bit comfy to me than the canned one which i made first. I might make another one, you're right I tried 
better than buying new ones. if i did and didn't do well with my hands, that would even be more awful. would ahve been nice if you give your input at least any warm up before i use this thing.
better than buying new ones. if i did and didn't do well with my hands, that would even be more awful. would ahve been nice if you give your input at least any warm up before i use this thing.1 person likes this
@Scindhia (1906)
• India
17 Feb 16
@Letranknight2015 I don't know any warm ups. I'm sure you must have lost some weight already doing those dumbbells
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
@Scindhia If you have read my post, yesterday was day one. No, im not going to try any other weights because they are probably too heavy for me
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
Hello @SIMPLYD WOW that's ridiculously expensive to me. it was made out of cement, sand and plastic bottles. and a metal Rod. well, i will use this dumbbells to see if i can sweat and loose weight. and probably get some muscles too
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
Did you make sure that the cans are of the same weight? I think that's a very important thing to consider when making your own weights.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
I don't know @louievill that was first I made so I'm not sure. as for coke dumbbell, the first side was full cement while the other is mix with both cement and sand. I think they're all Not the same, but i gave it a try and works out fine. except that my left wrist kinda hurt i think so i will just try not to over use it.
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
@Letranknight2015 maybe you would like to consider making another one after your prototype. Check that you have equal sand, cement and gravel on both cans, then try pushing the mixture down with a metal rod to make sure there are no air bubbles. This is now the time to weigh, keep lead or pebbles handy for balancing counterweight and calibration. I'm not sure but unbalanced one might cause injury
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
@louievill well, my other wrist kinda hurt a bit when ever i do some hand warm ups. but not much, thats why im not over doing it.
@iamshane487 (1138)
• Manila, Philippines
17 Feb 16
My brother made cemented dumbbells before for men. I will buy a dumbbell soon because I am exercising. hehe
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
Oh, so what sort of exercise you do? @iamshane487 I thought about this for a while because I wanted to exercise elsewhere besides on our back yard and the treadmill can't be moved back inside. But I won't be using this much since I've not gathered enough intel as to how it could affect me.
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
. Yeah, I thought about it making a few for a very very long time.And my stationary bike broke so I can't stop there @Lucky15 make one again my friend and this time hide them, you know what? I'm hiding mine
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
@Lucky15 oh what's that? aome? hmm let me check on this.
@Lucky15 (37391)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
@Letranknight2015 nah. Ahaha. My bro don't need them anymore now. Me...just do aome basic excercise. Hahaha
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@Rohvannyn (3098)
• United States
12 Mar 16
Warmups can be done with light calisthenics, stretching, jogging in place. You only need five or ten minutes.
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
17 Feb 16
well, others have done it so it wasn't so hard @paigea except with the mixing of cement which i screw up a bit.
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