In a previous recent Tensa thread, I had mentioned about how I was using dumbbells as a foot end tether. There was a back up strap to a 2x4 or shoe behind the closet door. I was fairly sure that the back up cord never even got any force applied to it, the dumbbells did it all. I thought about 80 lbs, but turned out to be a bit less.
Anyway, I took it outside today to experiment, just to make sure that it was safe, especially as I experimented with even lower weights, but using a boom stake as back up, rather than the closet door.
Worked great. I started out with one dumbbell of 37 lbs( I am about 205 lb today), and I'll be darned if it wasn't just almost enough! It is certainly enough just to reduce force on a questionable boom or orange stake or some tether point indoors that I might be worried about. Like a closet door or desk leg or whatever. It mainly came up off the ground only briefly when I would get in or out or shif my weight around, maybe way towards the head end. Here is a picture of me settled in a Claytor No Net, and you can see one end is lifted up, and I think you can tell that the back up orange strap is just barely loose.
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In this picture, it looks to me like the single dumbbell is more solidly on the ground, and the orange back up tether looks a tiny bit looser to me. Perhaps I had shifted my weight just slightly mpre towards the foot end.
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Next is 2 dumbbells, roughly 74 lbs. Both dumbbells are solidly on the ground and the orange tether is loose. The weights only move one time, when I got up a bit too fast and carelessly, probably with my weight too far towards the head end. But basically, it held just fine. I think I will do something like this whenever I am hanging indoors, with whatever else I strap to just serving as additional back up, but which will be pretty safe from damage.
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