The first sandbag I ever made was just a duffel bag from an army surplus store, filled with 4 x 20kg bags of sand.
Highly recommended getting a bag program going. The versatility for a few dollars is a good buy. Ebay has them for cheap, and they last. Very kid friendly and it doesn't matter if you drop them. As a gainz bonus your core and grip strength will improve. Humbling tool as well, the weight of a bag does not move like the weight of a bar.
No, I hang kettlebells or plates from the bar using bands and it achieves the same thing
Kinda. Solid bar won't recoil like a bamboo stick .
Yeah but the effect is the same. Bar oscillates like crazy.
1st time tried to bench with the REP open trap bar that thing went to shaking like crazy. Could not find balance point to control it, until lowering weight to warm up range.
You went with the rack mount pad, Bulldog or BoS? The $150 tag on the Bells is tempting but its one of those things would have to force it in routine.
It was the BoS version. Well built and functioned great, but the seal row movement didn't feel right. Tried doing it several different ways and couldn't get into it. Only having a squat stand didn't help either. Too much tear down/set up for me.
Bench on a couple boxes works perfectly. Especially if you have a cambered bar.
Bit more involved than just slapping the attachment on and doing some bent rows. Did you try any of the lay-back DB flies or single preacher curls? Some of it looked like goofy sales pitch that was really uncomfortable.
I tried all of the different uses for it. Most of them probably feel better on an incline bench.
With you on that set up nonsense. If it takes moving stuff and rearranging, it may get used for a week then it's going to sit in a corner. Needs to be available and approachable right away.
You got rid of a concept rower because of that? Thats absolutely insane lol
Rower deserves the space, throw out something else!
That's the fun reason to give out for shock factor. I got rid of it because my left knee clicks every time it bends 90 degree so rowing was mentally infuriating. Felt it every single rep. And I didn't like putting shoes on to row because barefoot workout is life.
