the making of a kettlebell... :|

[getfitdoc]

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this guy is lord

 

[getfitdoc]

http://dragondoor.com/images/video/dv036_mkb.wmv

this one...

 

[pullinbig]

nice clip.

 

[jcp2]

if you guys are looking for kettlebells, try kettlebellconcepts, they have some that are priced much better than the dragondoor. I have a 50lb, probably getting a 60 and 70 this month or next.

 

[getfitdoc]

thanks for the tip jcp2 great deals... even though they say outofstock for most of their bells....

 

[Tafman]

good movie

 

[0nyx]

remember.. when we say strength, we mean kettlebell and when we say kettlebell.. we mean strength hahahahaha

 

[getfitdoc]

kettlebells are manly

 

[Button Buck]

if you guys are looking for kettlebells, try kettlebellconcepts, they have some that are priced much better than the dragondoor. I have a 50lb, probably getting a 60 and 70 this month or next.

For the amount of money it costs to buy a kettlebell vs. the amount it costs to make one it'd be a waste not to just make them. Unless your serious with training them all the time, but still the homemade ones work perfect. For an 80lb kettlebell its like $180 bucks, for an 80lb homemade one its about 10 bucks at home depot and 20 bucks at playitagain sports.


You can make one easy as shit with small pieces of schedule 40 pipe and some 90 degree angles from home depot. Take 10lb plates (whichever weight you want) and stand them up pushed together. Run X inch pipe through them and attach 90 degree pipe fittings on each end. Then take X inch long pipes going straight up till you've cleared the 10's and allowed yourself some space for yourr hand. Attach 2 more 90s and then a piece for the handle and you've got a kettlebell at a fraction of the price.

Plus on top of that its adjustable AND you can drop it unlike every other KB out there thats adjustable without breaking it. You can buy a 1 inch piece of pipe to run through the standard 10 plates and then use a 90 thats 1inch on one end and on the other 2 inches on the other so you can have 2 inch pipe the rest of the way.

Another way great method is to hit up tractor supply and buy a large size cleave hitch with the loading pin. Handle is already in the shape of a kettlebell and it works awesome.

 

[pullinbig]

we use dbs now instead of kb's. they work jes as well and are actually a bit tougher to use. necessity is the mother of invention.

 

[jcp2]

For the amount of money it costs to buy a kettlebell vs. the amount it costs to make one it'd be a waste not to just make them. Unless your serious with training them all the time, but still the homemade ones work perfect. For an 80lb kettlebell its like $180 bucks, for an 80lb homemade one its about 10 bucks at home depot and 20 bucks at playitagain sports.


You can make one easy as shit with small pieces of schedule 40 pipe and some 90 degree angles from home depot. Take 10lb plates (whichever weight you want) and stand them up pushed together. Run X inch pipe through them and attach 90 degree pipe fittings on each end. Then take X inch long pipes going straight up till you've cleared the 10's and allowed yourself some space for yourr hand. Attach 2 more 90s and then a piece for the handle and you've got a kettlebell at a fraction of the price.

Plus on top of that its adjustable AND you can drop it unlike every other KB out there thats adjustable without breaking it. You can buy a 1 inch piece of pipe to run through the standard 10 plates and then use a 90 thats 1inch on one end and on the other 2 inches on the other so you can have 2 inch pipe the rest of the way.

Another way great method is to hit up tractor supply and buy a large size cleave hitch with the loading pin. Handle is already in the shape of a kettlebell and it works awesome.

The powersystem kettlebells are 85 bucks for the 80lb. Still more than making it, but a far cry from 180, shipping was not much either. I would not build them, but that is me. I was just offering a cheaper alternative to dragondoor.