Gaining Mass With No Access to Weights

I have always been this way because I was broke and so I would get in these situations where I needed a good workout tool but I had nothing. So I thought back to how people used to train before dumbbells existed.

Yours truly.

The smart ones that figured out that lifting something over and over makes your muscles grow if you're eating enough. In this case, I'm sure there was a lot of lifting of stones. If I can push this stone above my head six times and seven next time, even logically I'm stronger.

There was a story in Greek mythology of a man who started carrying a baby calf to its watering well and never stopped. By the time the cow had grown, this guy was a beast of a man. He knew you needed progressily heavier weights.

So that's the main problem in this case. It's easy to find any old weight but it's hard to find something that you can keep increasing the weight of. Think water or sand. Get a 5 gallon jug that you would use for water. If an almost-full (the sloshing activates stabilizer muscles) jug of water is too light for you, replace the water with sand.

Another way to go is sand bags. You can get the ones they use for floods or you can make your own and make it heavier. You can use large logs to squat with. You can find sturdy wood to hold two buckets on your back (one on each side) and either squat or lunge.

There's always the Natural Stone of Strongman fame.

The gym at the Training Trailer! I'm like Dorian. But I'm in a trailer and I think he was in a basement. 

That baby is about 200 lbs of awkward grip but if you get it right, what a sick workout. Think about this. Rack pulls? What about picking a BIG stone up off of a brick or two. Your lower back gets super strong, not to mention your core and legs if you walk around hugging it. 

Lastly I want to give you some jail secrets for building muscle. Everyone knows there's little to no weights in jail or most prisons even. However some of these guys are straight goons!

This is my best example. In jail, many people use a particular movement for their biceps that involves a towel and is honestly so good as far as pump and feel that I do it to this day. There's bunks in jail so they will simply throw the towel over the top corner edge piece of metal. Now you have something you can grip. Well you put your feet close to the bunk to stabilize, grab the two ends of the towel, gradually let yourself down (so you are essentially tilting backwards to get the proper angle), and this is when you can perform the PULL or concentric portion. Pull yourself up, squeeze the muscle (think of flexing it), control yourself down, rinse, and repeat until your arms become stiff as boards from the pump.