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Well i live in north east Pa we had a flood and my YMCA was flooded and they are recarpeting the whole place which leaves me w/o a gym for id say atleast 2 weeks the whole building is getting redone. I have a curl bar with 70lbs of weight..... so very limited to what I can do. For cardio I can still run up at the track and that should keep me pretty fit till it reopens, but I'd like to keep my muscles working. I mean I guess I could do pull-ups and push ups. But how many reps and sets of those would help me?

I could tell you that you could do the same stuff at home with the weight you have and just do circuits but I just want to give you a totally different idea.

I can't find the right site I want to post but it is very good and very inexpensive. see if you can get a bucket, a sand bag and maybe a old duffle bag from an army surplus store, the bag would be for curls and rows if you wanted, also if the bag you use breaks that's the last thing you want to happen if your doing over head press.

If you want to change some of the weight just dump it out in the bucket. I know you could get a 100lbs. bag or so.

What I would do, and going to do when I go on vacation to the beach , is do circuits and used the bag as weight. You can do:
rows,
floor press,
overhead press,
curls,
front squats,
lunges,
cleans,
deads,
upright rows,
farmers walks.

The list goes on forever, your imagination is your limit. I cant wait to try it out myself. For looking up information you can also use workouts that are used for kettle bells. If I find the sight I like, I'll post it.

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Thats a great idea! ill load it up with heaviest crap i got then go to the scale. That should work up till they get it fixed and best of all you dont have to deal with a crowded gym for awhile.

Good ideas. Also since I'm sure you have an empty beer keg laying around you could do beer keg training j/k

There are also all kind of cool things you can do with half a barbell which would make 70 lbs more than enough if you've never done it before. A thing to look for is Landmine exercises. Actually Dave this is something I recommend you look into since it mimics throwing someone. This will give you a back (and core) workout like you've never had before.

And also you could take advantage of the time to do something like suitcase lifts (like a deadlift with the barbell to your side using one hand) to really strengthen the stabilizers (and train your grip).

Just throwing things out there. The sand bag idea is great too.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.

most definitely. I'll be throwing the keg around tomorrow.