Well, I am back for another go-round. I just wanted to say congratulations to everyone that completed the first 61DC and I am sorry I was not there to see it completed.
As for me, life sent me into a major tailspin. In early July my girlfriend of 8 years broke up with me for another guy and that messed me up bad, real bad. I went into a huge down-slide of drinking and just a general lack of care for my well-being. I have overcome all that darkness and am working to pull myself back up by the bootstraps. However, things have changed a little bit. I am now living closer to the college but in shared housing (I rent a room in a house with 5 other people; we share common areas like kitchen, bathroom etc.), and my hours at work are a little less so I don't have much money coming in.
I went to the college to workout when class first started and all I can say is I was appalled at what I found when I entered the weightroom. I will try to describe it as best I can but I don't think words enough can describe the sad sight I saw. The entire weight room at our college is about 20'x20', inside it contained, 2 stationary bikes, 2 recumbent bikes, 1 rower (looked like a mid-80s model about ready to fall apart), and in the centre of the room an old 4 station fitness machine (4 sides, 1 side for pulldowns, 1 side for "bench" etc.) that looked to be so old and worn that if I used it it would crumble to pieces. There were no dumbbells, no barbells, no free-weights of any kind. No weight plates, no bench, no olympic bars, just nothing. I turned around and walked out.
So now, I don't have the income to buy a gym membership (cheapest student rate in the area is $41/month), and the school basically doesn't have a weight room so I am stuck doing anything I can on my own, which lately has been riding my bike around the city. What I need ideas on are some things I can do at home to at least get a decent workout in each week. I have no room or money for dumbbells or building any kind of home gym so that isn't an option. I figured it would have to be things like pushups, chair dips (feet on couch/chair, arms on another chair and dip inbetween), pullups if they will allow me to install my chinup bar in my doorway, stepups onto a chair or some of my milk crates, goblet squats with whatever I had handy for added weight. Also for things like stepups I could throw some of my text books in my bookbag for added weight. Maybe some Good Mornings using the same bookbag idea for added weight.
So does anyone have any other ideas of things I can do at home, and maybe what kind of set/rep scheme I should go for since it is mostly bodyweight work with maybe some slight external weights added?
Thanks for any input anyone has.
-Kyle
-PS.
Wow that came out a lot longer then I intended, sorry for rambling.