How to make dumbbells at home

Dumbbells are very effective in exercise, but the problem is that the process of buying it is expensive, especially when buying different sets of it, and therefore many people are looking for different ways to make dumbbells at home using materials available at home, or easily obtainable, and in In this article, we will review a set of ways in which dumbbells can be made at home, and the most characteristic of these methods is that their materials are available at home, and are cheap if purchased.

Making dumbbells using water cans

This method is characterized by being easy, and its materials are available at home. This method can be prepared using the following materials:

Eight cans of water.

• water.
• Heavy duty adhesive tape.
• Sturdy tube.

Then the following steps are followed:

• Fill the water in each of the water cans, and it can be completely filled, or according to the weight to be reached. It is worth noting that the size of the water bottles can be chosen according to the weight to be reached, some may choose large size, and others are small; It depends on the weight to be reached.
• Get some heavy-duty tape, and start tying the cans together, and tie four cans together firmly on one side, and on the other side also tie four cans, but you must be careful to secure them well, ensuring that none of the four cans fall out of the tape.
• Bring a tube or a stick, but be aware that this stick is heavy duty, and will not break or warp when you attach the water cans to it.
• Fix the stick with the water cans, but be sure to fix it well, so that four water cans are on the right side of the stick, and four water cans are on the left side of the stick, leaving the middle side to hold while playing.
• Try the prepared dumbbells. Hold the stick from the middle and start lifting and lowering it from top to bottom. During that, you should notice that there is any slack, or that the boxes are fixed, and if there is any slack, you must work on fixing the boxes well and try them again to ensure that they do not fall.

Make dumbbells using milk cans and pebbles

This method is characterized by being easy, and it can be prepared within 5 minutes or less, and its materials are available at home, and can be obtained easily, but this method is only suitable for light weights, and it can be prepared using the following materials:

• Prepare milk cans, plastic water, or any other type of cans available at home, but you must make sure that these cans have tight-fitting lids, so that no sand falls from these cans while carrying the dumbbells.
• Prepare sand to fill the cans with, and if there is no sand in the house, gravel, rice, or anything else can be used, according to the weight to be reached; Pebbles, for example, are heavier than sand.

Then you can follow these steps:

• Filling the sand inside the water cans, and closing them tightly, and in the event that there are no cans with tight-fitting lids at home, you can use ordinary water bottles, or milk bottles, and insert the sand into them using a funnel.
• start experimenting with cans; And that is by holding one of the cans with the right hand, and the other can with the left hand and start lifting and moving it from top to bottom or vice versa.