Arizona Iced Tea Gallon Containers would make good hand weights, no?

[ultimatebob]

I just realized that Arizona gallon iced tea jugs would make pretty good adjustable hand weight. They have a nice handle, and you can put up to 8 pounds of water in each one.

It's like a kettlebell weight, but for poor people! You now have one less excuse not to start exercising for your New Year's resolution.

I'm imagining a Billy Blanks style Tae Bo workout with them, except that you would have an Arizona iced tea jug in each hand as a sort of weighted boxing glove.

 

[Gardener]

Truckers prefer the liter Gatorade jugs, according to my recollection driving I-90.

 

[Torn Mind]

Tractor Supply 2.5 gallon oil jugs are more effective.

 

[ultimatebob]

The Arizona Iced Tea containers have really nice handles, though:



I guess that you could fill them with lead shot if you wanted more weight, although I'm not sure how well they would hold up if you did that.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

If you cannot afford dumb bells or kettle bells, or need something for while you wait for them to arrive; mine took 6 weeks. Improvising is certainly better than nothing. If you put the white sandbox sand from Home depot or Lowes in them, it would weigh close to 13lbs. Should be enough to get started.

The kickboxing style workout, I can tell you now, does not require more than 16oz gloves ever. And you will get smoked in a 30 minute session if you are novice level. I used to train people, so I have seen it first hand. Besides, those jugs are not going to let you maintain correct mechanics while throwing punches so that is a huge negative in my opinion. I suggest a more traditional style of workout for them. look up dumb bell workouts and use the ones they are best suited to.

 

[mindless1]

You can use just about anything. Get a little hand hatchet, chop down a tree with it, cut the trunk into pieces with the weight you need them. Carve handles. That's exercise.

It is hilarious that people need special dumbells to exercise some way that someone else told them to do it. Rearrange all your furniture, vacuum, then rearrange it again.

Stack up all your canned goods as fast as you can, then unstack. Play jenga with them. Don't have enough canned goods for a game? Grab some sacks and haul canned goods from the grocery store, jogging backwards, uphill both ways!

If you don't like to eat canned goods, when the game is over then jog backwards to the local homeless shelter to donate them.

You could also do this with Arizona Iced Tea Jugs. No need to refill them with something else. Besides, all that jogging backwards with a load is going to make you thirsty.

I'm not suggesting this is the way to add massive bulk, but we're talking about light repetition exercise equivalent to single-digit lbs resistance.

 

[MrSquished]

Just have someone else drink the iced tea. That stuff is crap. I used to like it when I was a youth and didn't know any better

 

[Gardener]

You can use just about anything. Get a little hand hatchet, chop down a tree with it, cut the trunk into pieces with the weight you need them. Carve handles. That's exercise.

It is hilarious that people need special dumbells to exercise some way that someone else told them to do it. Rearrange all your furniture, vacuum, then rearrange it again.

Stack up all your canned goods as fast as you can, then unstack. Play jenga with them. Don't have enough canned goods for a game? Grab some sacks and haul canned goods from the grocery store, jogging backwards, uphill both ways!

If you don't like to eat canned goods, when the game is over then jog backwards to the local homeless shelter to donate them.

You could also do this with Arizona Iced Tea Jugs. No need to refill them with something else. Besides, all that jogging backwards with a load is going to make you thirsty.

I'm not suggesting this is the way to add massive bulk, but we're talking about light repetition exercise equivalent to single-digit lbs resistance.

Well said! After my dad retired and sold his dental practice, he started vacuuming the floors with the old hoover upright. It broke mom's heart, as she liked doing it. I uncovered this sad state of affairs during a holiday visit, fortunately we all had a talk about it and dad backed-off, and starting going for walks around the neighborhood. The End.