Originally Posted by irishrose
A student's backpack with two pound weights in it has made my thoracic region much happier while FMQ. I had the weights, otherwise I'd gone outside and picked up some rocks. The backpack was 25 cents at a garage sale.
Could also throw in a couple of canned veggies - 16 oz cans. I wanted to start lifting weights and didn't want to spend a lot of money on equipment I didn't use, so I started with 16 oz cans and graduated up to 8 pound milk jugs. Then I decided I was going to keep lifting weights and bought a set of barbells.