What's the deal with kettle bells? They seem so expensive for their weight compared to any other piece of weight-training equipment so surely there has to be a few things they're really good at, right?
What's the deal with kettle bells? They seem so expensive for their weight compared to any other piece of weight-training equipment so surely there has to be a few things they're really good at, right?
Be a man and diy you filthy consoomer
What'd you fill it with? Honestly surprised it would be much cheaper to make them.
Cement
Its around 40ish pounds. Cost me 20 bux
>go to do a swing
>bell flies off into something expensive
The only expensive things I own are my computer; which is in a different room, my workout equipment, and my Judy Hopps figurines.
>basketball filled with $20 worth of cement
>expensive workout equipment
how much to replace a panel of drywall?
Adds a thrill to the swings
But really, the chain inside the handle is well-caught in the cement.
>Adds a thrill
Good to know that even 20 years later, I can't even hear the word 'thrill' without thinking of Snake Eater.
>WHAT A THRILL
Based ISTchad.
I too made my own bell, unfortunately it's only 8kg.hkoko
I had a 50 lb bag of sand left over from when I had to tarp my roof, so I just filled leftover milk jugs with sand. They weigh 17 lbs each. Literally free weights, and I can use them as a kettlebell if I want to.
I guess you could do lateral raises with those milk jugs...
they used to be cheaper than dumbbells but i guess that changed
I use loadable dumbells, which makes the difference in price even more pronounced.
they were cheaper because it's easier to stick handles on a glob of metal, and they didn't really need to be balanced like a dumbbell.
Then hipsters did the whole "le olde is le good, I will reject the mainstream" and went nuts with kettlebells. And then all that got bid up.
There's like two exercises they do better than dumbbells
What the frick are you talking about? People got into kettlebells during the unnecessary lockdowns.
They are small iron balls you can throw around (i.e., ballistic movements) for gains. Great for endurance, explosiveness, and achieving ottermode.
Kettlebells became expensive after the pandemic, though you can probably find cheap ones if you stay away from known brands.
A 16 kg kb, 24 kg kb, and a pull-up bar or rings are the poor man’s homegym.
You make it sound like kettle bells are superfluous if you have a barbell and dumbbells already.
How so?
Just don’t buy competition KBs, it’s like saying you need competition eleiko bumpers instead of regular rubber ones
I can buy a 20kg KB for €30, iron.
Depends. For swings sure but for anything that bangs on your forearm I prefer the competition ones.
Yeah, they can be good for like "strength-endurance" type of training if you use them for ballistic movements like kb snatch and kb swing.
However they are expensive as frick for the value they provide. It's better if buy some cheap iron barbell and some plates of 200 lbs and you can get much more value out of it
Only for americans shilling for Rogue or other MUH MANLY kettlebell logo brand. I can find plenty of cheap sources for kettlebells in Europe that are generic brand and they do just fine. Its the fact iron isn't cheap to make equipment out of or ship without damages etc.
I bought a 10kg / 22lbs one from some european Dollartree equivalent for like 15$. It's basically reinforced plastic filled with concrete but its super stable.
I prefer them for pullovers
I bought iron 32kg one at a scrapyard for like 8€ and there's gays talking about diy with cement lol
I used this and then I realized I don't wanna be a dyel for the rest of my life, so I bought plates, a barbell and loadable dumbells. Gains went through the roof compared to using this shit. It may be good for cardio, but not for significant gains.