As part of my focus on weight loss and fitness, I picked up two bags of Quikrete’s 50 pound bags of sand from Lowes Home Improvement for $3.55 each today. I had seen the article in Men’s Health Magazine’s June 2008 issue about sandbag workouts and decided to give it a try. I’m going to double (maybe triple wrap) in contractors trash bags and carry one in a back pack and use the other for these exercises:
Fat-Burning, Total-Body Sandbag Workout – Men’s Health
Total Body Workout – Men’s Health
Adding in a stationary bike in my apartment and my mountain bike for hitting the streets/trails and I think I’m starting to have a plan com together. My only real concern is the fragility of the sandbags thin plastic bags. I’d love to get a burlap sack like pictured in the Men’s Health article.
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“I’m going to double (maybe triple wrap) in contractors trash bags and carry one in a back pack and use the other for these exercises”
I’ve been looking for actual sand bags everywhere and I can’t find any. I think I’ll borrow from you and throw them in an old bag pack.
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