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  • 27
    Jun
    2011
    7:08pm, EDT

    Cost of living in Caracas forces gym-goers to get creative

    Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters

    A man lifts weights made of rocks, construction bars and rusty car parts at an improvised gym in Caracas, Venezuela on June 24. As the cost of living in Venezuela's capital increases, more and more residents are finding creative ways to keep in shape without worrying about finding the right equipment or paying gym fees.

    Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters

    A man lifts weights made of rusty car parts in Caracas.

    Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters

    A man exercises his legs by using rocks as weights.

    We've posted quite a few pictures of makeshift gyms around the world on our "makeshift gym" tagstream.

    • Read more news on Venezuela.
    • Read more on the global economy.

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  • 17
    Feb
    2011
    11:56am, EST

    Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters

    LCPL. James Edward Orr, 20, from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company lifts weights made from barbed wire at a makeshift gym at an outpost in Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, Feb. 17.

    Lifting barbed wire weights at a makeshift gym in southern Afghanistan

    By Elena Grothe

    See more photos from Afghanistan here.

    We've published pictures of makeshift gyms before, from Afghanistan and Cuba. Click here or the "makeshift gym" tag below to see all manner of improvised weights and weight machines.

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    I wouldn't want to spot this dude.

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  • 13
    Jan
    2011
    10:20pm, EST

    Working out in an improvised gym in Havana

    By James Cheng

    AP moved these three photographs from Havana today by photographer, Javier Galeano.

    Nike's 'Just Do It' slogan came to mind when I saw them.

    Javier Galeano / AP

    A teenager lifts weights in an improvised gym in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Jan.13, 2011

    Javier Galeano / AP

    Two teenagers exercise in an improvised gym in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Jan.13, 2011.

    Javier Galeano / AP

    A teenager exercises in an improvised gym in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Jan.13, 2011.

     

    3 comments

    Stucco? You are assuming that the average Cuban has access to construction materials. In a free country you usually do but in a communist one you are usually focussed on using the small amounts of money that you earn to feed yourself and your family. Most Americans think that everyone in the world h …

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  • 10
    Dec
    2010
    5:40pm, EST

    Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    Sgt. Jay Kenney, 26, with the 101st Airborne Division, Task Force Destiny, uses tires as makeshift weights in order to workout inside the recreation center on a quiet day waiting for an air mission at Forward Operating Base Ramrod December 10, 2010 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan.

    Fitting in some weight training on the front lines

    By Meredith Birkett

    Next time you're annoyed with your fellow gym mates, who are taking too long on your favorite machine or leaving their sweat all over it, think -- it could be worse.

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    The tire-weights are a new one for me... Previously on Photoblog: Another makeshift gym in Afghanistan

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  • 22
    Oct
    2010
    12:20pm, EDT

    FINBARR O'REILLY/Reuters

    Afghan National Police exercise at a makeshift gym at a combat outpost in Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province Oct. 22, 2010.

    Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters

    A view of a makeshift gym for members of the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company at a combat outpost in Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province Oct. 22, 2010.

    Afghan police exercise at makeshift gym

    By Stokes Young, nbcnews.com

    Great improvisation.

    9 comments

    America has poured TRILLIONS of dollars into building hundreds of extremely expensive military bases across Afghanistan. Thanks to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, her video team exposed how the American people are being hoodwinked by these propaganda photos of mere mud huts and mud forts the soldiers are 'al …

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