Sandbagging

Fun,  Free, And Only As Heavy As You   Make Them!

Sandbagging hiding the difficulty of something early in an engagement- Wikipedia
Example: "Hey Marty, let's go do a sandbag workout! It'll be a piece of cake!

From my Free Range Fitness Log: DIY sandbags, and different ways to carry and lift them

Location: Mount Baker Beach and Dose Staircase
Weather: Cool and overcast after a hot night
Buds: Marty
Highlights: Great Blue Heron sighting, hello from Peter, a lovely meditator sitting lakeside, soaking up the calm

Sand. It's such a wonderful thing.
Today we grabbed a couple of old duffle bags and went to the beach.  We lined our bags with kitchen garbage bags this time. Why? because if you don't, the sand will stream out bit-by-bit during the workout. This is not a big deal, unless that gritty feeling of sand in your hair bugs you.  It was an experiment that totally worked. Sand stayed in place, no escapees.

The best best best thing about sandbags, in my opinion, is that you decide how heavy you want them. Marty had done a huge run and core workout yesterday so she sanded up accordingly.  I wanted a bag that I could lift..barely. A bag that would make doing 8 military presses  grimacingly hard.

The Sandbag Workout
Holding sandbags as pictured, above:
10 Bent Over Rows
10 Squats
10 military presses
30 Lunges Down the dock (hugging sandbags)
15 squats moving sandbags from left to right
15 squats moving sandbags from right to left
30 squats, tossing the sandbags from between legs, forward
50 paces walking with bag at left side
50 paces walking with bag at right side
Wall sit with bag, 1 minute
Stairs with bag over shoulders
Top of stairs: bicycle crunches
Stars with bag over shoulders
Dropped bags, 
Sprinted to top of stairs without sandbags
Grabbed Bags to come down
10 military presses
Wall sit with bag, 1 minute
4 short beach sprints (so bags)
Dumped Sand
Out to end of dock: lunges and sit ups

Sand is such a wonderful thing.  Natural, available gear you can borrow anytime. So much better than unwieldy, expensive, in-the-way weights. So much more convenient than those weights you can only use at the gym (when it's open, when you can get there, when your dues are paid up, when somebody else isn't using them). Sand is beautiful! Why not pick it up?