Poor Men's workout: Kettlebell using a basketball?

From our last post in Poor Men's workout we spoke about using basketball as a DIY medicine ball for your workout.

Today we will show you some ideas of making a kettlebell using a basketball and other materials.

Poor men's workout: Basketball solution Part 1: Medicine ball

Today we will talk about making your own medicine ball using a basketball.

 Medicine balls are usually sold between 5 - 10kg weights and are used effectively in plyometric weight training to increase power in athletes in all sports.

Poor men's workout: AquaMan.

Today's post: our friend Genn Lai of asiaticsoul will show you another "poor men's workout". This is called the "Aquaman" workout...

Alpha Wolf Training Group in Tanjung Aru!

FightBah have recently meet a new training group called the: Alpha Wolf.

Poor Man's: Pull ups in the playground

Besides learning the techniques and skills in what ever martial art you do, general fitness is also important. Exercises such as jogging, skip ropes and weights are good to keep your body strong.

While some might complain that they cant afford to go to a gym or worst cant even buy dumbbells for training, this next "Poor Man's" post will introduce you to the simple solution of going to a playground.

Poor Man's: Below RM50 punching bag.

FightBah spotted a few punching bag that are BELOW RM50 at the SURIA SABAH 100Yen Shop.

The 1st 1 we spotted was a small (estimated) 3 feet tall bag and about 1.5 feet wide bag. The skin of the bag is not made of leather nor canvas, the inside of the bag comes with a few millimeter thick foam that wraps around the bag. The bag does not come with any filling.

The small bag cost RM29.99 while a slightly taller and bigger bag (about 5 feet or 6 feet tall & 3 feet wide) cost RM49.99.

It could be a "children's punching bag" considering it looks smaller and the material of the body looks like cloth stitches, but as long as you punch it with gloves, we believe it will get the job done. All you need now, is to find sawdust and sand to fill up this bag.

Hope this helps for those who wants a "nice to look at" yet cheap punching bag compare to a tire.

Poor man's training: Training with Tires.

Every humble gym or club would probably have gone through the phase of finding a venue & having to DIY their own equipment for training. When I first had a space for my club Kinabalu Fighters in the Sabah Judo Dojo, they had a huge space but no punching bags (duh) it was going to be a problem for me.

Problem was, neither I nor the small group back then couldnt afford a proper punching bag... We turned to a simple alternatives. Tires.