DIY KETTLEBELL SET FOR 20$

[@jaywholoveseveryone1721]

4:36 I love how you thought the cardboard box would hold that 35 lb kettlebell 😂 Thanks so much for this idea. I can stop using water jugs now THANKS 💗💗💗

[@adnankudumovic4390]

short and sweet and to the point and you didn't drag out any unnecessary details. Probably one of the THE best DIY's I've seen overall from anyone on any video. Thank you for this video!

[@nyuhhgyhhhv]

Wouldn't this be more expensive than buying a kettle bell?

[@Seriousgreeen]

5 min in the oven..perfect!..I just did that today. great tip.

[@WollisWorld]

Just a tip u could have tied a wire at ends of the pvc pipe so when the concrete dried it has a real grip same as rebar

[@SuperWmunoz]

best diy of a kettlebell i seen so far...great creativity.

[@jasonross5032]

Thank you hope it helps

[@cubensisa]

is there any chance for the cement to slip of the handle while You swing it furiously up/down?

[@SuperWmunoz]

+ventci markov maybe if u put screws on tip inserted to ball it will grip better. just guessing never done before

[@jasonross5032]

+ventci markov no thats why you bend the pvc a lil past a u shape that will not slow it to slip out of the. Concrete I have been useing mine 4-5 days a week since I made these and have not had any problems thanks for watching

[@eminaesic7532]

hey ,if anyone else trying to find out best kettlebell routine try Wiltapar Bell Expert Secrets (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some decent things about it and my work buddy got amazing results with it.

[@billydengel6647]

Nice tutorial. A tip to keep the PVC from kinking is to tape one end, fill with sand or uncooked rice and tape the other end closed before baking. This will prevent kinking.

[@RichardGriffiths1]

Won't the tape melt?

[@theshizzle2000]

@@RichardGriffiths1 use a heat gun or diffused torch.

[@utubepunk]

Rice or sand.

[@lokeyfunny]

Wow. Great job. Loved the finishing touch of spray paint and numbering.

[@jameserskine9243]

Thanks for the idea! I made 3 kb’s of different weights from scraps around the garage. I even loaded one ball with lead shot, from an old diving weight, to bump the weight up to 46lbs.

[@fireme347]

Looking for Ideas to make heavier than my 35lb. Thanks.

[@terranceweis5231]

Brilliant idea to put the pvc in the oven. I appreciate you sharing with us

[@tonyrabone4668]

Great job. Gonna do this with my kids.

[@Szajborland]

Can I put some dense steel (found in the junkyard or somewhere else) in the center of the ball (prefilling the ball with some concrete, then putting the steel inside, then finally filling the ball completly with some more concrete) to make it heavier than 15 kgs that you would normally get by filling the ball with the concrete only? will it still be solid that way?

[@erosthespacesoldier1712]

Excellent... if you're worried about the handle coming out you can use fittings available at any good hardware store and connect the ends with two tees and a small piece of pvc. This would make an 'H' to be buried in the cement. 25 & 35 pounds, that's perfect!

[@EstevanBonilla]

You’re about to blow up because of COVID lol

[@muffemod]

All them fake flakes yea. Fuck them tho.

[@mikesyoutube321]

I need a 45 and cant find one anywhere! Maybe I can throw in some ball bearings into the concrete mix? 🤔

[@raw3239]

Seriously

[@NoFate247]

@@mikesyoutube321 Let me know, that's my question, how to make it heavier

[@AHiFiveMeansYouLoveM]

blow up?? no one told me that was a symptom

[@hankvinson5967]

The CARONA kettlebell...Very inventive!

[@toneloco1550]

This is dope. Looks fairly easy and straight forward to do. Going to try this.

[@Robert-hf5xr]

That's cool man good idea

[@robertlehnert4148]

Skip the glue--no real need for it. if you have to, get a bag of play sand to fill up your PVC pipe to keep it from kinking, or you can just use dry dirt with no significant rocks--just tamp it firm. Skip the drill, use a garden trowel to mix and scoop the concrete mix. The consistency should be like THICK oatmeal. Of course your sand/dirt filled 26" PVC pipe is duct taped at both ends. Wrap it in aluminum foil, place in 350 Farenheit oven for 5 minutes. While it's getting soft, fill your sink up with cold water, first placing in an institututional food can-- the old style big metal coffee cans also work. This will be your curvature mold for your handle. You'll need a pair of oven mitts you don't mind getting wet, but with the sink ready and the handle ready, remove from oven and quickly dip it into the water and bend it right against the can, holding it just long enough until it hardens. The curve should be nigh well perfect. Let cool and remove the foil before placing into your concrete filled ball. A just concrete filled basketball and a 1" dirt filled PVC pipe will make a just under 30 pound KB. To raise the weight, find pieces of steel, or better yet, lead. Be creative in your sources. I used the scrap railroad spikes and S-ties rusting away beside any railroad track to make a 45 pound KB.

[@Rya_N33]

Robert Lehnert meth is a hell of a drug

[@robertlehnert4148]

@@Rya_N33 ?

[@TonyG61904]

Hell yeah, you just made my home workouts sooooooo much better!!! Thank you!!! I searched up diy kettlebells just for the hell of it, and this is the first thing I seen! Thanks bro 🙏🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@TroijanSkinhead]

So many haters and experts. You dont like it move on let the rest enjoy and congratulate

[@scottm2398]

thats cool.. good job

[@KiloCharlieOne]

Damn genius. I already have a kettlebell but I’m gonna do this anyway.

[@jkmartinson4832]

If you put play sand in the pvc prior to heating it and cover the ends with duct tape, it will hold its shape in the oven and heat evenly. After you have bent it to your shape, dump out the sand. It will form easily into almost any shape without creasing or collapsing.Great video. I’m going to try it!

[@ritcheymt]

Thanks @Jason Ross. This design seems even superior to store-bought kettlebells because of its rubber coating: I can lift in the basement on the concrete floor without messing up the floor or the kettlebell. In the three years since you produced the video, have you had any issues with the handles slipping out? I wondered whether some heavy wire laced through two or three holes drilled through both ends of the handle might help guarantee a permanent anchor between the handle and the ball. I'd hate to have a 35 pound ball slip off the handle while I'm swinging it: That'd give one more image for my sons to post on social media. :)

[@Lakers-hi8hb]

Great instructions man. Plan on making these asap. Definitely cheaper than the $70 kettle bells at sports stores.

[@CacheWeston]

No it's not. This is at least a $100 kettlebell if you value your time at all.

[@bandostyle]

@@CacheWeston also a proper kettlebell should last a lifetime, this one I doubt it.

[@juliosanchez2411]

@@bandostyle at this point it's probably about $300, and time is most certainly what most people have lkl

[@jamesnewman6032]

Man those are fantastic! Nice job

[@kelleysauer1693]

Use other size balls such as volley balls or soccer balls (youth, high school, etc) for other weights. Also to produce a handled weight of approximately 17 lbs, you can simply fill a 5qt motor oil jug with concrete. Fill it about 1/3 with wet concrete, turn it upside down to let the handle fill with concrete, let it harden over night. Fill the remainder of the jug with concrete and let it set. Mix the concrete in the jug using approximately a 1 to 1 ratio of water to concrete. Use the top carrying handle of the jug to swing it. A jug filled with water weighs about 8 pounds. No heating in your oven required and the handles are solid concrete inside a plastic sheath. No worry about handles loosening.

[@MaxSandberg]

Kelley Sauer Good ideas! I’ll try a few different sizes of balls and see how it turns out

[@mariocarvalho1392]

Love the ideia, thank you!

[@samkelley7137]

Clever. That's rad.

[@koslisted9458]

Put sand in a frying pan, then use a funnel to put the hot sand into the PVC and you won't get kinks in your PVC pipe. When I make these or Buff Blocks I like to fill My PVC with Concrete as well. Makes them heavier and more durable hand grips.

[@ImAnEmergency]

Really interesting tutorial. Thanks for posting!

[@anonymous-zk3mi]

you could fill the handle too, making it heavier

[@kicksnarehats]

Super cool

[@AnthonyAragues]

in the "No excuses" category!

[@LaneHagen]

That handle won't stay in without a cross brace and the concrete will disintegrate from a drop. Try adding a cross brace to the handle and add fiberglass to the concrete mixture to hold

[@ethrez]

Lane Hagen fiberglass wont be enough..

[@LaneHagen]

@@ethrez concrete specific fibre glass strands would be. That shit is crazy strong

[@metoo3918]

@Sledge Patrick please link me to where you can buy a 35lb kettlebell for $20. Nearly everywhere sells them for around $2/lb.

[@metoo3918]

@Sledge Patrick in other words, you have no idea where to get iron kettlebells for the price he built them. Thank for confirming.

[@tyefoster4935]

@RT S I guess being helpful is an unmanly trait, huh, lol

[@renedemolay1084]

Solid project!

[@maxxmagnum007]

Thanks. I plan on making a few of these using this video as the guide.

[@drknappstein3762]

Anchor the pipe on both ends in the concrete with a bolt to make it sturdier

[@juanluismagana9043]

Now I find a good option to use my old basketballs. Thank you.

[@alexanderturl]

Great job mate.

[@jdubs9022]

this is a great idea looking for old balls now to make my own im all about diy equipment and for the price you cant beat these kettle balls thanks

[@MrDRock-rc2tz]

J Dubs Go hang out in any gym locker room and you will see lots of old balls! 😃

[@kevinotoole885]

It looks the part but it isn’t gonna last 5 minutes. 35kg of concrete with a PVC pipe set in it will wriggle out in no time........hopefully when it’s not above ye head. Concrete will also crack too, it cracks in them plastic weights filled with concrete too it just isn’t effective. Really nice idea but I think somebody else suggested this, bang a bolt through and through the PVC, fix a nut either end and then set it in concrete. The horizontal metal fix will be way stronger than the vertical plastic pipe in concrete.

[@fluxingn]

Very nice. I was looking on how to get this done. Thank you very much.

[@Hayde.Oliveira]

Gostei da ideia do forno. Obrigada! 🏋️

[@emoneywon9835]

well done sir. Clean DIY

[@pewpewbbqs]

Best DIY on KZbin so far

[@RichardGriffiths1]

This is excellent. It's basically impossible to buy a kettle bell anywhere in Europe right now... And the gyms are closed! Home made is the only way to go

[@mikkohaaralatraining6326]

Great DIY Kettlebell. I will try this absolutely!

[@RichVarney]

This is a brilliant idea👍

[@MrChazz965]

That was cool !

[@carlosa.alfaro3614]

You can drill holes at the ends of the PVC pipe that goes inside the basketball and place a couple rods in a crossed pattern to make sure the ball won't come off

[@TheSpole]

Wow! 😆 awesome I found you whole I was looking for a diy for a 14# soft shell medicine ball... got any of that? 😆

[@mvquitugua1650]

That’s pretty bad ass actually

[@MrNcmatt]

I’m going to make this. Thanks for sharing

[@VestigialHead]

Great build - only issue is that most ovens will not fit a 25 inch piece of PVC.

[@michaelsmyth5877]

They look awsome

[@EclecticWizard6]

Love it dude

[@JoeLopez]

That is cool! Would drilling a couple of holes on each end of the PVC help anchor it into the concrete?

[@kieronsmithson]

Joe Lopez put some long screws through the ends to create an anchor point.

[@bbrewer609]

Well done man!.........Love it.

[@johnnyfaber9955]

Dude!! That totally rocks!! Great job!!

[@Dredd8375]

Fantastic DIY champ... look forward to more great ideas... thank you

[@modernlaw4177]

What size basketball should we use? Intermediate? Kids?

[@spakkker3]

I reckon a 7 adult to get 16kg / 35lb - I just made one with crushed storage heater blocks in mix = just over 20kg/45lb

[@jonathangodoy8251]

Great video men! Thanks you from Argentina!!

[@Rya_N33]

Cool video

[@haiyanqu698]

Very cool!

[@IsaacEssentials]

Love it. Good stuff man!

[@bigwavesun]

My uncle used to make concrete dumb bells and barbells. He'd get a kick out of these.

[@attentionlabel]

Great KBs man! Tried to order kettlebells online and everywhere is sold out, haha

[@scoutmasterruss]

Dude! Thank you so much for this video! Heading to buy basketballs now!!

[@ejmcdaris8408]

Awesome

[@OctavioUrzua]

just wondering if you added cement into the handles?

[@fireme347]

I added sand. Packed it in. Tin foiled it. Heated my handle in the oven then shaped it. And let cool. (Pre drilled holes for screws at ends to be added to help anchor it in the cement.

[@theshizzle2000]

if you fill the pvc with sand as you heat and bend it will form a great handle with extra weight and extra compressive durabiluty. we do this at work somtimes to form nice bends but there is no point in removing the sand as wee do. even better use butelene pipe as this is tough as old boots.

[@raulbelmudez9331]

Bad Ass Bro i was on my way to Academy to buy me some Kettleballs ,Great video Bro, really thanxs

[@mesiroy1234]

Can I drop without problem Or the concrete will break?

[@manuelmeza5526]

Good job dude!

[@rodrigojimenez48]

Muy buena idea gracias saludos desde Mexico

[@WildDogGamerBoy]

"People who buy things are idiots" Ron Swanson

[@pacibaco]

Eh , I give it 6 months max before it explodes . Inexpensive versions exits that are impervious to damage ...

[@christiancamilootero8944]

People who buy this stuff are rich

[@filster1934]

@@christiancamilootero8944, actually, people who spend wisely, and make their own kettlebells, are rich.

[@cjblackjr]

@@pacibaco Nah, I've had a set of 6 I made similar that have lasted almost daily use for a year now...

[@labib8aug]

this is a peace of craft my friend

[@philrichmond7567]

Great idea Jason. Cheers geeza

[@AlejandroGonzalez-wo5fk]

Huge props bro

[@spakkker3]

I've just crushed up some old storage heater bricks - density 8 vs concrete density 2.4 , hope mix is 3 x heavier Volume of 8" sphere ~4.2 litres , concrete =10.1kg = 22lbs or maybe 3 times that with storage htr grit mix Steel density 8 vs concrete 2.4 = similar if can add lots of steel , lead even heavier. 8 1/2 sphere volume 5.88 litres nearly 1 and 1/2 times weight of 8" ball 22lbs vs 33lbs concrete 9" ball = nearly 8.2 litres , very nearly double 8" ball Oh , I did melt the pipe handle and sand ran onto the gas flame - hoover saved the oven Thanks for the video - impossible to even buy these now unless 3x usual cost.

[@coreyhamilton6485]

That's pretty dope 👍🏻

[@Greg-tj8rg]

I was thinking about making something like this, but wasn't sure how to make the handle (didn't want to use rope). Only thing I'd change is I'd put a couple nails or screws in the PVC to make it bind to the concrete better

[@andrewcorry7562]

Beauty!! Thanks

[@Tom_Sellicks_Mustache]

How long do they last?? If you dropped theM all the time ?

[@tallbass]

Awesome!

[@carpejkdiem]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing the process. Much appreciated.

[@ptrainingbytim8505]

You Sir are a genius! Thanks for sharing.

[@CacheWeston]

A genius would go to the store and buy one. He is a maker, but in reality this kettlebell costs well over $100 if you value time at all

[@relatif8412]

It should be cheaper using plastic ball. They are cheap and plenty in my country. Plan to use scrap pipe and heat it up with torch gun to bend to u shape, drill both end, put the screw.

[@MaxSandberg]

abdul latif How did it go?

[@tiffanysharp2408]

So can I still use the ball for free throws?

[@taltezy2941]

1979 is the best year God has ever created!!

[@Szajborland]

What sort of tape shall i use to bake the pvc pipe??

[@utubepunk]

Duct tape the pipe at one end, bake the right amount of sand, then pour it into the pipe, then duct tape that end. In less than a minute, it'll be super flexible

[@mattk9957]

Thanks a lot! Saved me 2hundred bocks

[@minaaz3834]

you are the BEST hats down !

[@PeteRoseinthehalloffamenow]

Dude good video.

[@savasmetin1302]

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[@robertlehnert4148]

You have to experiment, but walk around a railroad tracks and pick up the discarded spikes and those curved tie pieces ( for obvious reasons DON'T pry spikes from the track) and pack your basketball mold with this metal to bring the weight up above 26 or so pounds of just concrete b-ball and sand filled PVC pipe.

[@jamomeara1894]

Once you fill to the desired weight, does the ball get lighter once the cement cures and the water evaporates? How do you get accurate final product?

[@scottballard328]

How are these holding up at this point?

[@scottpate9019]

I would not trust that PVC not break swinging that kettle bell around.

[@marcellowheeler88]

You'd really have to be thrashing it with only 35lbs to break that.

[@parelt]

I think I would run a chain or braided cable through the PVC pipe to reinforce it. Possibly pour some of that concrete into the handle as well- before inserting

[@austinfreiburger9095]

someone else also mentioned filling it with sand or uncooked rice.

[@parelt]

@@austinfreiburger9095 The sand was to prevent the geometry caving during the pipe bending- I tried it and it worked somewhat- I would pre-insert the metal braid loop through the handle before bending. I also tried some exterior screws into the pipe to hold into the cement. Not sure about these solutions that take material out of the handle intersection with the concrete weight. I am not completely confident in the handle strength- especially because of the uneven bend..might need a few more iterations before I am confident in swinging these around especially overhead. It seems like a basketball maxes out at appox 35 lbs.

[@austinfreiburger9095]

@@parelt After watching a few of these videos and trying quick DIY methods such as a kayak dry bag filled with water, I think I'll just buy a kettlebell from Rogue. These seem like they can work but I'm not personally handy enough for it to be worth it.

[@robertlehnert4148]

For your hot from the oven sand filled PVC ( pre wrapped in aluminum foil!) Handle, have in your kitchen sink an old METAL big coffee can and place it open end up and fill your sink with cold water while the handles are getting hot in the oven. As you might guess, the can is your curve form. Have a pair of oven mitts on, take the handle out and plunge it right away into the sink and squeeze it around the can until it stiffens up ( go ahead and snicker Beavis and Butthead) and then remove it to let it air cool. Reheat if the curve isn't to your liking and repeat the dip and squeeze.