Ways to make small weight increments on situps

[greemah]

I have a basic set of freeweights at home, I used to hold dumbells up by my chest when doing situps but it got to heavy to get the weight up, so started holding weight plates behind my head.

This seems to work ok when holding 15kg and 20kg etc but to make small increases to like 16kg etc it's impossible to hold the weights.

Can anyone suggest a good way to do situps where it's easy to add weight and hold it? A dumbell behind head would be good but it's too big so would hit my head on the bottom part of the movement

[Slow n Steady]

Good question; I've often thought that myself. What I was thinking of doing was getting hold of one of those baby carry sling / packs that people wear on their chest whilst carrying a baby and using that as a weight bag; I'm sure if you adjust the straps tight enough the weights would sit nicely on your chest without moving around. Dunno; just a suggestion to maybe look at.

[Merlin]

I switch between hugging plates against my chest and holding a dumbbell above my face with both hands.

[Pseudonym]

There's an easy answer to this one.

You can control how heavy the weight feels by moving it up and down your torso. Hold it up behind your head for more weight, hold it over your chest for less, hold it somewhere in between for... well, you get the idea.

[greemah]

Pseud that was the problem - couldn't hold behind head and make small weight increments as the pile of plates gets to hard to hold and/or too thick

Found better way though - hold EZ bar accross chest, doesn't roll coz of the shape and no problem making any weight increments

[holdenman]

Pseud that was the problem - couldn't hold behind head and make small weight increments as the pile of plates gets to hard to hold and/or too thick

Found better way though - hold EZ bar accross chest, doesn't roll coz of the shape and no problem making any weight increments

Lol, he said you don't need to change the weight. The further away from your body the heavier(harder) it becomes. Don't use more weights, just change where you hold them.

[greemah]

Lol, he said you don't need to change the weight. The further away from your body the heavier(harder) it becomes. Don't use more weights, just change where you hold them.

I was already holding the weight behind my head

[Pseudonym]

In that case, I would have moved up to the next big weight, and then just held it further down my body.

But if you've found a way that works for you, then that's all that matters.

[Lunchie]

One way I found of doing this was to buy a medicine ball that you fill yourself, that way it has handles for holding close to your chest and when you want it to go heavier you just put more sand/whatever in it until you are at the weight you want.