Have you looked to see how much medicine balls are online? Holy cow they are expensive! One site that I looked at had 20# balls (hehe) for $100+!! Now I know that there are some out there closer to the $30-$40 mark, but I like to do things myself and often times make things more difficult than they should be. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it's a miss (my wife loves my little adventures) but I'm happy with the results this time. The pictures aren't the best my lighting was terrible this evening. None-the-less check it out!
So I went to Wall-Mart and picked up some supplies. A rubber basketball, Gorilla Tape, a box cutter, and liquid nails, and sand that isn't shown. I think everyone knows what sand is.
First thing I did was deflate the basketball. Hind sight it didn't really make a difference, but safety first! Ok so then I cut a triangle in the ball at the valve cut off the valve and placed an empty bottle in the hole I made. This served as my funnel for the sand.
So from here I just filled it to my desired weight of 20# and then I had to seal the hole I made. Insert liquid nails.
I know it's not the most good looking seal, but it's functional. Once the seal dried I began to wrap the whole thing in the gorilla tape and BAM. Done!
It's not the prettiest thing, but it cost me around $10. Can't beat that!
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