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You're making your own weights?? Seriously, you can't find a better option than that? Do you have a job? If not, get one so you can pay for a gym membership. If you do have a job, why can't you afford a gym membership? Please explain....

I think I have seen it all now!

Ive posted this again and again , about my living situation.

I'd rather spend a total of 3.50 cent per 80lbs of weight. Than the price of weights I will find anywhere that I can get my hands on.

Ive broken down the costs , of the membership thats like 75 dollars a month , but like 60 for discount students , but im not a student.

So 75 dollars a month is a huge price for me to pay whenever I'd have to pay 8.50 dollar every week to get back and forth to the gym from my house , if I go 3 times a week with 25mpg vehicle.

35+75 , gives roughly 100 dollars a month in order to workout.

I got a job at lowes , but with less than 20 hours a week , sometimes barely 20 if I make 20 hours , at 7 dollars an hour. Is not enough for me to support myself with a gym membership , insurance , gas money , because I'd have to also add gas money to get to work and back home..

Im barely getting anywhere with that job , FOR NOW... temporarily.. Im going to make some basic equipment to just rebuild what ive lost with over a year of not being able to train.

And do what I can over the internet to make money to save up.. To atleast get a vehicle.

Because I dont have the money saved up right now to even afford a vehicle to start to get to work. Believe it or not most of the money that ive spent almost 2 year saving up... I used more money paying for the taxi to get back and forth to the work than I was actually making for the most part. Which was my main way of getting to work I didnt rely solely on taxi , days I could get a ride from my dad a few hours early of needing to be at lowes , I would and sit there till my shift.

that saved me some money , but most of the time , I had to use the taxi. I lost money out of having that job. Because I dont have my own vehicle.

IF I had the job , my own vehicle , insurance , then MAYBE I could of slowly saved up but it wouldnt be enough to really be able to do anything. Not with a gym membership so I have to make cuts..

Which is working out at home with cheap low cost equipment that ive tested for strength.

Now so STEP one , is I have to save up to get a vehicle , then save up for insurance to start with then pursue what I need.

I can take a loan out , credit is ruined from a doctor bill I couldnt pay , that wasnt even my fault. So its not worth it for me to take a loan out , just do my best to save with some free internet stuff ive found to make money.

Then hopefully ill get some money in my pocket to do some things.

But this is my best option , hands down.......

So you have a part-time job. Why don't you have a full-time job if you aren't a student? You live around Charlotte, NC? Perhaps you should get/borrow a bicycle instead of using the taxi--there's cardio right there. If you're so willing to make your own weights, why not be willing to bicycle where you need to go or work full-time. We don't really know what your situation is like, but there are many options to get what you need/want--welcome to adulthood. If you think that making your own weights is the final decision and that'll do you fine, then the more power to you--hope it works for you.

No I dont have a part time job , I had to quit because I couldnt make it to work without losing money , except for on the days they could schedule my shifts for my dad to drop me off on his way to work. But even days whenever I was using taxi to go to work I was getting

20 +/- hours a week , which overall , wasnt doing me any good. So whenever I talked to them about changing my hours to match up only the days I could get dropped off like every single day , work the same hours they wouldnt do it because they had other employees thats been their longer. Their schedules meet up with those hours and changing for me to fit in would move them around , which they already had an agreement on.

So I was getting screwed hours wise.

gym being 22 miles from my house , and lowes roughly 11 miles from my house.. mapquest and then slight changes , I barely have time for myself , and payment wont workout.. considering food and all also..

I have to make a cut to actually keep me from running around nonstop everyday with only a few hours or not nonstop moving.. With while doing that barely making any profit after all transactions.

Gym cut is a huge impact on that.. Now Im just saying this is all temporary tho. And its really low cost for me to do so.

I know it might sound like there are better options , none that I can do right now..

hey bro no matter what anyone might chime in and say after they read about you making ur own weights, dont let it get to ya, saudades is right "more power to ya bro" if this is ur only option, if u ask me ...making ur own weights shows real dedication, especialy if ur life sitation isnt allowing you to join a gym just yet!

Anyways i hope the weights u make work well for yabro! And for the record....Life only gets harder my friend! so try to make all the right choices while ur young!

Presser said:

hey bro no matter what anyone might chime in and say after they read about you making ur own weights, dont let it get to ya, saudades is right "more power to ya bro" if this is ur only option, if u ask me ...making ur own weights shows real dedication, especialy if ur life sitation isnt allowing you to join a gym just yet!

Anyways i hope the weights u make work well for yabro! And for the record....Life only gets harder my friend! so try to make all the right choices while ur young!

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Ambitious for sure. Some of the equipment you have made looks like a torture device but hey I know how it is to work out at home and wish I had some more torture devices to utilize. Good luck and like you said make sure you coat those weights. I got paint from a dumbell in my eye one time and it scratched it really bad. I can't imagine fiber concrete in the eye.

I plan on coating it , thats a definite. Some cheap acrylic paint in a bunch of thin coats.

Their pretty closely weighted , maybe .25lb difference between each of them.

i dont know any gyms that are 75 a month. ballys offered me 100 cash for the whole year, and la fitness is an enrollment fee and then 25 a month:dizzy: my current gym is 39 a month, no enrollment.

Whatever your situation, I have to agree with Presser that making your own weights so at least you have something to use does show dedication. It would be easy to say, given the circumstances, I will just have to wait until I have more money to work out, but where there's a will there's a way. Hope it works for you, post more pics after you get them coated.

The gym built into the hospital , so they pretty much wreck you with costs. The parking is in a seperate area so I dont think they raised price for parking.

But , they have the indoor pool , the upstairs with the track and pretty much all the machines like assisted dips , back machines , ab machines , etc... leg press , leg curl.

Then downstairs is the basketball court , and the real weights. this is also where the pool , sauna , hot tub is

They have alot of older people that go there , and they have trainers , nutritionists , the desk people , rehab people and another room where its people wanting to know pretty much about their metabolism I guess. like you have to fast 24 hours before you actually talk to them.

All of those are extra fees paid in , but I guess your bill still includes them as an option if you decide for the.. But one thing for sure yes 75 is ridiculous , I used to be able to workout for 25 dollars a month at a different gym.. but like I said that gym is pretty much ruined now. New owner who didnt know anything its like "Dedicated" to only females now , just bikes , treadmills , and real weights have been removed. I dont know if the old owner took that stuff with him when he left , or if the new older sold it. But its not there anymore.

The gym is still 25 a month , but theres nothing that I really wanna plan a workout with.

In a 22 mile radius there is not another single gym you can go to or find closer work? You must be on the far outskirts of Charlotte then because that's a big town.

Im not in charlotte , im in ellerbe.

and in the outskirts of ellerbe which is already a small town that has nothing. That most people have not ever even heard of.

We have nothing here.. The only reason people come to Ellerbe is like for lawnmower races whenever they have them.

22 miles is the closest gym the 2 other gyms that we had , One is completely shut down. The other was transformed into a full fledged womens gym by the new owner that apparently knows nothing about training. Women can benefit from training other than ellipticals and treadsmills etc. Theres nothing in that gym that I can use for my goals.

Yeah, that's the outskirts for sure. They lump your IP addresses there in with Charlotte. I knew you were out there, but didn't know exactly where.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Ellerbe&state=NC&address=114+Holly+Hill+Dr.&zipcode=28338

Yes middle of no where , im actually not are far out as I could be so im greatful for that , but im still pretty far.

As for my address being up for everybody to see. I dont care.

And I thoght the 5gl paint buskets filled with water we used in jail were creative!
As for finding work, bro seriously I feel for ya but on a more solid note...why nto put your talent for workign and finishing crete to good sue and find a job as a finisher. just my .02 for what its worth.....

best of luck to ya....

Md-

dunno where futures taking me right now , just gotta wait and see.