This is how I made a good medicine ball (9lbs.) and recycled an old soccer ball that my kids don’t use any more. For many exercises i do prefer the medicine balls you can buy because they don’t give so much, but these sand filled ones are, great for other exercises, cheap, easy to make, and you aren’t out much if you destroy them with ball smashes. This may cost you a bit more if you don’t have an old ball, glue, or some kind of funnel, and sand, but even that stuff is cheap.
I tried different ways to take the plug out, make it bigger, and bypass it, but cutting it out with a small paring knife worked the best. That way there is still a large plug inside to screw the plug into later and glue it to.
#1 Cut straight down and around the plug, so you have a nice little hole.
#2 I cut the top off a pen cap, so the hole was a bit bigger, but still small enough to fit in the hole in the ball.
#3 All my funnels were to big to fit directly into the hole of the ball or the pen cap, so I put our nice kitchen funnel over the pen cap. There was a little gap on the side and little sand spilled, but hardly any. it fills the funnel and drains into the ball through the pen cap. I had some nice beach sand that I just scooped into the funnel. It is going through a small hole so it took about 20 minutes to get it to 9 lbs. That was about as much as I could get in a size 3 soccer ball and still make it squishy.
Women seem to do the best with about 6-8 lbs.
Men will probably like 10-12 lbs.
#4 The Set Screw below was my only purchase at the local hardware store, 5/16 fit perfectly in the hole.
#5 I put some glue on the Set Screw and screwed it into the hole
#6 I let it dry for 24 hours before I started smashing away.
If it ever breaks open I’ll take the sand out and put it in a new another one. So far it takes a beating pretty well.
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Hi, interest post. I’ll write you later about few questions!